Quarry development opportunity smashed

 Pacifica Tribune Letters-to-the-Editor, 8/1/12.  Quarry wars by Connie Menefee

"Editor, as a 20-year veteran of the Quarry Wars, I'm incredulous at Peter Loeb's phoney outrage at Elaine Larsen's editorial in the July 18 Tribune, in which she described the "brilliant anti-development move" that ultimately doomed any development of the quarry property. Ms. Larsen's editorial was spot-on. No apology to Mr. Loeb warranted. In fact, me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much.

Photo by Bob Pilgrim. Quarry 6 years ago, same today.

I attended every Don Peebles/Andres Duany (the latter being the visionary New Urbanism planner, architect and designer of distinguished "community revitalization projects"-- Google him and weep!) charrette and meeting, culminating in the Peebles/ Loeb Great Debate.  

Mr. Loeb's disingenuous revisionist history notwithstanding, he was unmistakably a chief propagator of a scare-tactics disinformation campaign calculated to defeat any and all future quarry development. The notion that Loeb and friends were willing to "work with" a developer to create "just the right project" is flat-out fiction.  

With the state's dissolution of redevelopment agencies, development of Pacifica's "crown jewel" is now forever lost. Mission accomplished, Peter."

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Peter Loeb Reference - See Fix Pacifica reprint, Pacifica Tribune Letters-to-the-editor, Peter Loeb, "Big lie", 8/1/12.   Note:  No on quarry development campaign, 2006. about:  Isn't that man at group right Peter Loeb?

Andres Duany Reference - Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (D PZ.com, 6 visuals. "With over 30 years in the practice of architecture and urban planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has earned an international reputation creating over 300 projects for a wide range of built environments in the United States and abroad. The work of the firm spans the design spectrum and across a number of disciplines, residences to master planning and regional planning, from conducting academic research to drafting municipal codes."
A conversation with Andres Duany. "Andrés Duany and his partner, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, are undoubtedly among the most influential architects in the world today. " 
Andres Duany Related article -  The Atlantic, 5/18/10, "The man who reinvented the city".  Architect Magazine, 1/3/1, "Control the masses."  UM School of Architecture, "Heterodoxia Architectonica Video, 38 minutes.
Other videos exist on you tube, look for them. 

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