Meeting Overview
The October Coastal Commission hearing was held in San Diego. Highly contentious votes were held on the expansion of the San Diego Convention Center and a proposal from Mitt Romney to construct a massive home on the coast in La Jolla. Other controversial items included a request by Pepperdine University to flood a sensitive coastal canyon habitat with light pollution from its athletic fields and a proposal to pave wetlands at the Del Mar Fairgrounds to expand parking lots. These two environmentally destructive items were discussed but continued to future meetings.
Issues voted on at this meeting:
A 740,000 sq. ft. expansion of the San Diego Convention Center with a 5-acre rooftop park and construction of a new Hilton Hotel Tower with 500 rooms, 55,000 sq. ft. of meeting-ballroom space...
The City of San Diego to demolish an existing 3,009 square foot residence and construct a new 11,062 square foot, two-story over basement single-family residence with attached 4-car garage, hardscape, and retaining walls, with existing pool, spa, and seawall...
Appeal by Commissioners Mitchell and Brennan of CDP issued by the City of Encinitas to applicant that would include retention and removal of portions of an unpermitted private stairway leading from the blufftop to the beach; replacement ...