Seaside City Council seeks community feedback on Car Week events
The Seaside City Council is holding a listening session tonight to gather community feedback on Car Week, discussing its positive and negative aspects, and exploring ways to improve the event.It has been a month since the cars and crowds of Car Week have left the Monterey Peninsula, and now Seaside city leaders want to hear from residents on how they think things went. “The goods, the bads, how do we make it better, how do we improve? Does it meet the goals of the community? And does the benefit, the benefit, the benefit? The residents? I think that’s the goal is to get an oversight overview as a beginning planning as how we move forward,” Dave Pacheco, a councilman said.Seaside holds seven car events during Car Week, with “Exotics on Broadway” attracting the largest crowds. Darryl Choates, who owns a restaurant and bar on Broadway, said, “This is the most successful thing in the city of Seaside in the last eight years. I mean, every business on the street was very happy. Even the ones that are even on the street are trying to get on the street and setting up little shops everywhere and trying to just make money.”However, some believe “Exotics on Broadway” has grown too large. Jim Vossen, president of the Seaside Chamber of Commerce, said, “To encompass all of Broadway and shoot half of Fremont. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of territory to close down that people can’t even get there. So I’m sure there’s some impact there I think it needs to be studied more.”City leaders are also looking to address issues such as illegal takeovers at the In-N-Out and Home Depot parking lots that occurred after other events concluded. “But we don’t know. And I guess they’re still investigating why it happened when it happened. And what where did they come from and what was the cause. But overall, there was a lot of positivity,” Pacheco said.Thursday’s council meeting got underway at 5 p.m. and is expected to last for the next couple of hours.
The Seaside City Council is holding a listening session tonight to gather community feedback on Car Week, discussing its positive and negative aspects, and exploring ways to improve the event.
It has been a month since the cars and crowds of Car Week have left the Monterey Peninsula, and now Seaside city leaders want to hear from residents on how they think things went.
“The goods, the bads, how do we make it better, how do we improve? Does it meet the goals of the community? And does the benefit, the benefit, the benefit? The residents? I think that’s the goal is to get an oversight overview as a beginning planning as how we move forward,” Dave Pacheco, a councilman said.
Seaside holds seven car events during Car Week, with “Exotics on Broadway” attracting the largest crowds.
Darryl Choates, who owns a restaurant and bar on Broadway, said, “This is the most successful thing in the city of Seaside in the last eight years. I mean, every business on the street was very happy. Even the ones that are even on the street are trying to get on the street and setting up little shops everywhere and trying to just make money.”
However, some believe “Exotics on Broadway” has grown too large.
Jim Vossen, president of the Seaside Chamber of Commerce, said, “To encompass all of Broadway and shoot half of Fremont. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of territory to close down that people can’t even get there. So I’m sure there’s some impact there I think it needs to be studied more.”
City leaders are also looking to address issues such as illegal takeovers at the In-N-Out and Home Depot parking lots that occurred after other events concluded.
“But we don’t know. And I guess they’re still investigating why it happened when it happened. And what where did they come from and what was the cause. But overall, there was a lot of positivity,” Pacheco said.
Thursday’s council meeting got underway at 5 p.m. and is expected to last for the next couple of hours.
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