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Yahoo!We are disappointed to learn that developer Rick Caruso has failed to address concerns related to removal of the Miramar's unsightly seawall and hulking beach encroachment. [Montecito Debates Rick Caruso’s Miramar Hotel, 5/6, /carusodebate].
As we explained to Caruso's representatives months ago, the value of his property is integrally tied to the health and quality of the sandy beach environment fronting the resort. Given that ongoing sea rise exacerbated by climate change is likely to increase beach loss by 200-300% during the lifetime of this project, it is demented to insist on rebuilding the Miramar using the ancient ugly bulkhead currently in place and/or pushing beachside rooms and cottages so far out over the sandy shoreline. Caruso's current plan invades the public beach, will degrade water quality, and is likely to cause the project to be held up at the California Coastal Commission despite widespread support for the concept of rebuilding the Miramar.
Once again, we urge Caruso to move the resort back now, and agree now to remove the existing environmentally destructive seawall. Claiming he can't do it simply won't work: The Coastal Commission has just approved rebuilding the SeaCoast Inn in Imperial Beach and the new developer agreed to precisely the same terms.
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Right on Mark Massara and Sierra Club. When will these bozo developers learn that it is easier to cooperate in advance with the local environmental community early on than to fight it in a long and costly battle after the fact.
Noletaman (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2008 at 4:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The project as proposed would encroach in every direction. Glad you brought up the ocean side. The plan brings new meaning to the term "boundary issues." Where's FEMA? Where's the US Army Corps of Engineering? And is it true that $1.5 million mitigated the developer's Coastal Commission problems? If so, then WE have a problem--all of us. What about CEQA? What the hell's going on here?
Grace (anonymous profile)
May 23, 2008 at 11:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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