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October 30, 2009
October 30, 2009 - November 5, 2009
Volume XII, Issue 32
In This Issue...
State Park Budget Cuts Hit Home
Capitola Says No to Another Rispin Extension Request
Capitola City Manager To Retire
Planning the New Scotts Valley Library
Surfing Comes Home to Boulder Creek
More Trouble at the Brookdale Inn
Loma Fire Contained
VCUM Kicks Off Thanksgiving Food Drive
SV's Red Ribbon Week Promotes Drug-Free Lives
Plaque Commemorates Lime Works
Bounty of Pjs
Water Manager Praises Conservation Efforts
Wells Fargo Gives $24K to Local Schools
Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries
Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussion
Crimebeat
Crime Beat 10/30/09
No Charges in High School Sports Fundraising Money Theft
Environment
Rain or No Rain? Forecasters Don't Know
The Weather Twins
Mark Stone Advocates Banning Single-Use Bags
Newsmakers
Scotts Valley High Haunted Hospital Raises Money to Fight Cancer
New Boulder Creek Business Board Continuing Most Seasonal Events
Monning Holds Office Hours
Redwoods League Announces Grants
People
Scotts Valley Chamber Announces 2009 Honorees
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BREAKING NEWS: Capitola Says No to Another Rispin Extension Request
Capitola once again told the developers who hoped to convert the Rispin mansion into a boutique hotel that the city is no longer interested.

The city's redevelopment agency had previously determined that its agreement with Barry Swenson Builder and Ron Beardslee was automatically terminated when the developers did not begin work on the project by the Sept. 29 deadline and sent a letter to that effect Oct. 9. Still, Swenson vice president Jesse Nickell tried to buy more time to put together financing by attempting to once again invoke force majeure, claiming that economic forces beyond the firm's control impacted its ability to begin on time.

Nickell first used the "act of God" argument after a late May fire delayed the project start. The city council, acting as the redevelopment agency's directors, set the September deadline in a compromise.

Bank of the West declined to loan money for the project, estimated to cost between $14 million and $15 million for a 25-room hotel in what is now little more than a burnt-out shell. The city owns the six-acre parcel and had planned to put as much as $4.5 million into the project.

Nickell asked for a year's extension to Sept. 29, 2010.

The city said 'no' after a special closed session Oct. 30. The city maintained its position that the agreement has already been terminated and refused to reinstate it, according to a letter issued Nov. 2.
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