Capitola Mall Project is becoming clearer. Based on planning commission meetings and the ongoing negotiations with parcel owners and the city it’s going to be 1100 units. 200ish affh. 35000 sq ft commercial. With a hotel. Currently it’s 340,000 of commercial on the MG owned spaces.
reddit.comTruck Smash in the Capitola Mall Parking Lot Saturday 10/3 hosted by MoD. Kids can get in all sorts of big trucks. Get up close. Free event.
reddit.comAt 10:30AM this AM 9/28 former Capitola police chief Rudy Escalante with be appointed interim City Manager.
reddit.comMijos permits being issued this October
Home by Spring. @Mycapitola on IG for all the good vibes Capitola has to offer.
Capitola funds the 38th all affordable project and strengthens our affordable down payment assistance program 9/24/26. Huge progress. We are becoming the poster child for supporting our community through affordable housing statewide.
Capitola Beach Festival this weekend including 2nd annual drone show!! Saturday and Sunday events.
reddit.comThe Capitola Mall project is very likely to see plans drop before years end. The prelim is going to be 8 to 10 stories. 800 plus units. 20% affordable with a 15% and 5% split between moderate income and low income. 3500 square foot convention center for like weddings and bar mitzvahs it’s so small.
It’s unclear how much commercial space but not a ton. But there will be a large hotel. And a high quality transit stop. Way less parking obviously but the mall parking is such a revenue waste already. Target is unaffected. Unclear about macys.
The city Housing Element zoned nearly all of our 400+ affordable (affh) units there so we will have to rezone 250 plus affh to other parts of the city and affh units have a higher standard. They need to be on parcels highly likely to develop. As there aren’t any left on 41st these units will be in the lower and upper village. Cliffwood heights. The jewel box. Depot hill. This is what happens when your city stops building and peaks in population in 1990.
Why are almost all the new builds and upzoning located in Supervisor Manu Koenigs district one? Manu is funded by developers, so much so he appointed the head of WorkBench to his planning commission (since resigned. Manu’s parks commissioner is also an Airbnb employee.
reddit.comMain Street Elementary is full. With some of the largest class sizes in the state, the staffing shortages have closed it to new students. Bleak asf.
reddit.comTory Del Favero is wins both the Santa Cruz County Democrats and the SCC Republicans Endorsement. Bipartisan support. She was the only candidate to receive the Democratic endorsement.
reddit.comCandidate Peter Wilk tells Santa Cruz local that he disagrees with his own statement opposing the Pride Flag from 6 weeks ago. Current tally, he doesn’t live in Capitola, SC Democratic Party does not support him and he can’t be trusted to stick to anything he says even on major issues.
Santa Cruz Sentinel endorses, Tory Del Favero, Cami Corvin, and TJ Welch for city council. Called Peter divisive and Joe distracted.
Santa Cruz County Democratic Party Endorse Tory Del Favero for Capitola City Council (sole endorsement)
Cami Corvin and Peter Wilk both applied for it too but were voted down. Article skills Tory’s name wrong.
Art and Wine highlights how much wealth the lower village can produce and how essential robust ATP and bus transportation are to open such horizons. The Esplanade is much better as a community centered space than a parking lot imo.
Mall Project plans drop by December. Not even half of the affh (affordable units) will be included. We will have to go back into our housing element and find room to zone 200 plus affh units and they have to be in places likely to develop to get approved by the state.
Betting everything on the mall was not bright especially after the example of Redondo Beach.
City Manager Letter to the community announcing his sudden retirement.
City Manager Jamie Goldstein offered to resign or be fired. He is out come December. No big payment required since he’s quitting.
Rumor is Future Urbanist Club turned Joe.
At the last meeting Councillor Sue Westman changed her request for a City Manager review from September to March/April. Cited the contract clause penalty the city would have to pay to fire CM. Yet this.
City Council Election has 5 viable candidates for 3 seats
Joe Clarke, the only incumbent, would he a shoo in but his refusal to hold the city manager accountable has lost him much of his local support
Tory Del Favero, daughter of appointed sitting councillor and former city manager Sue Westman, lifelong resident, universally supported, likely to come in first place
TJ Welch, longtime planning commissioner and local volunteer, born and raised here, would be our first indigenous councillor ever, local favorite
Cami Corvin, long time resident and trailer park advocate, another local favorite, new to local civics
Peter Wilk, non resident using his beach house to run, major donor to disgraced former mayor Kristen Brown, will likely get the DCC endorsement even though he is against the Pride Flag