{"id":371273,"date":"2026-06-23T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371273\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:26:25","slug":"paradise-california-enclave-locked-in-bitter-civil-war-as-vital-300000-suddenly-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371273\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise California enclave locked in bitter civil war as vital $300,000 suddenly pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Carmel shelved a $292,947 tourism marketing funding request after residents raised concerns about traffic congestion and overcrowding tied to visitor growth \u2014 a move that has enraged some business owners reliant on tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council unanimously approved a $42 million budget for fiscal year 2026-27 during its June 2 meeting but excluded the near $300,000 marketing allocation.<\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of Carmel-by-the-Sea, whose City Council reneged on a near $300,000 marketing allocation after resident complaint. Joe Sohm\/Visions of America\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisitors are welcome here, but tourism also creates unwelcome impacts for our residents. Congestion, pollution, noise and trash are daily realities,\u201d councilmember Robert Delves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4h9Uljbds5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">read<\/a> from a draft argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re angry about it it, frankly. They feel like there\u2019s too much tourism, there\u2019s over-tourism, so they see this kind of incongruity between that and the funding for See Monterey,\u201d councilmember Hans Buder added. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seemonterey.com\/members\/team\/#:~:text=See%20Monterey%20is%20the%20Destination,Valley%2C%20Sand%20City%20and%20Seaside.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">See Monterey<\/a> is a nonprofit tourism and marketing group responsible for promoting cities in the Monterey Peninsula such as Big Sur and Carmel-by-the-Sea.<\/p>\n<p>La Bicyclette and Little Napoli restaurants in Downtown Carmel. Gado via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Carmel Bell, a counter-service cafe, in Carmel Instagram\/@Carmel.belle<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia&#8217;s top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>While city council took out the group\u2019s funding, the council plans to work with the organization and continue discussions ahead of the city\u2019s next official meeting July 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the opportunity to continue discussions with the city and community partners \u2026 and look forward to identifying the best path forward for Carmel and its tourism economy,\u201d See Monterey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/article\/carmel-delays-tourism-funding-overcrowding\/71620541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told<\/a> Action News 8 in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>For some residents, more tourism is good for business. Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>For some residents, the overflow of tourists is necessary for businesses to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been here almost 30 years, and I\u2019ve never stopped hearing that (referring to bad traffic), so that\u2019s always going to be a problem,\u201d a general manager at a Downtown Carmel restaurant told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need always to be marketing, and to lose that would be huge,\u201d he furthered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Carmel shelved a $292,947 tourism marketing funding request after residents raised concerns about traffic congestion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,4182,266,5277,64143,821,3586],"class_list":["post-371273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-metro","tag-northern-california","tag-tourism","tag-tourists","tag-traffic","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}