San Simeon

I wanted to bring up a nuance to some of the districting that occurred several years ago here in our county.

I specifically watched San Simeon, Cayucos, Los Osos, and Oceano all went to the district model.

We don't call them districts in those districts because they're already community service districts, so some of them call them areas.

But what What's been occurring in each of these different agencies is when the incumbent doesn't run, there's an extension to sign up to be a candidate for a few more days after the deadline for the incumbent and anybody else that would want to run.

And actually it's a really good example of some of the unintended consequences of this, right? Because the intention of creating a district-based system is that you are protecting specific communities that couldn't elect candidates on their own.

But how big are these places that you're talking about? I mean, these are already pretty small jurisdictions, aren't they?

They absolutely, San Simeon is the smallest.

One of the areas only has 26

Well, I'd elaborate slightly on what David said in terms of that seismic study.

2008, the California Energy Commission asked PG&E to quantify what the impact at the plant would be if they had a San Simeon-type magnitude 6.5 earthquake directly beneath the plant.

They want to know what's the damage to the particular equipment.

PG&E for 18 years has refused to provide that information.

A lot of people went away.

There was, uh, San Simeon, you know, they had extra security.

And h- one of the Hearst, uh, facilities in New York, which actually was later attacked.

So there was a, you know, the Hearst, uh, family itself, they were worried about other kidnappings.

And that was one of the reasons that her dad, Randy Hearst, did not ransom her, was the F- the FBI and the attorney general and, and so on advised that if they caved on this one, there would be another daughter or another member of the family that could impact, uh, be kidnapped, and they might even come after San Simeon.

Which, by the way-

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And when they took their gifts home, they took their chair with them.

In the main dining room of the Cloisters, I call this the William Randolph Hearst room because most of the furnishings in here very closely resemble those in San Simeon, which was the residence of William Randolph Hearst.

One afternoon I was visited by William Randolph Hearst's son and he brought over some photographs of furnishings that he thought I might be interested in.

And by furnishings, you know what I mean.

Okay.

And so there's a cut through a little bit after Cambria, but before San Simeon on the 46, where you can cut over to the 101.

Okay, so you were able to continue driving north from Hearst to cut over.

Well, no.

bad.

So we got a taste of the one a little bit, right? But nothing like the dramatic.

I mean, the dramatic portion is San Simeon to Carmel.

Like that is the portion.