Pierson bestie to step down from Coastal Commission

Peter Douglas, the polarizing executive director of the California Coastal Commission and frequent Bill Pierson lunch date, announced he will retire at the end of November. Read the San Francisco Chronicle article here.

Can we get some fries with that shake?

Substantial B.S.

So, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that all of the power drunk California Coastal commissioners agreed during their meeting today that there were “substantial issues” raised in the EPIC, Paykeeper, NEC and Ralph Faust appeal of the phase one of the Marina Center project’s local coastal plan amendment approved recently by the [...]

Who says government isn’t efficient?

Within 24 hours of the filing of the last of three appeals challenging the city of Eureka’s approval of the Balloon Track interim cleanup plan, the California Coastal Commission published a surprisingly thorough 82-page legal and environmental analysis of the plan, along with the expected recommendation that the appeals be heard. Weird, huh? You don’t [...]

BFFs rock the BK

While it’s true that Bill Pierson’s usual lunch table at Hurricane Kate’s now frequently sits empty–no worries, prog friends! We ran into Bill and his friend Peter Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal Commission, rolling it low-pro at an undisclosed Eureka location.  Sure, the menu’s different–this fine dining establishment is not so much in [...]

California Coastal Commission: The movie

Residents of Humboldt County of course aren’t the first to raise concerns about the California Coastal Commission’s arrogant and capricious ways. Turns out it’s a refrain so common someone made a movie about it. It likely won’t win any theatrical awards, but it stars Peter Douglas, Coastal Commission co-founder and executive director, and famous lunch [...]

Artistic license

Bill Pierson keeps Eureka beautiful, by keeping all of that unsightly competition to an absolute minimum. Such civic pride!!

Updated: What’s wrong with this picture?

In the event that purchasing candidates and apocryphal environmental reports isn’t enough to tank a potential competitor’s development proposal–fret not, prog friends! Bill Pierson has a few more tricks up his oversized Hawaiian-shirt sleeves. Consider, for example, his relationship with Peter Douglas, pictured below left with Pierson on Thursday at Hurricane Kate’s in Old Town. [...]