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Scaled-back Pebble Beach project approved

By |  May 16, 2012

After years of dissention between the developer and environmental groups over a picturesque area of the Pacific coastline, California regulators Wednesday finally approved an expansion of the Pebble Beach golf resort, which includes Pebble Beach Golf Links and 17-Mile Drive. But the expansion won’t include a new golf course.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the California Coastal Commission unanimously approved a land-use amendment for the project. The approval came after the Pebble Beach Co. curbed its plan to expand in one of the world’s largest forests of native Monterey pine, the newspaper stated. At the center of the controversy: a planned golf course. Ultimately, states the Journal, “The commission approved plans for a new 100-room hotel, 90 new home lots and an expansion of existing hotels. This came after the company agreed to drop plans for features such as a new golf course.”

Commission members asserted that the approval resolves longstanding concerns that developers would remove thousands of trees. Whereas the previous expansion plan called for the removal of about 18,000 trees, under the approved plan, a reduced number of trees — about 4,000 of them — would be removed.

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