Planning Commission meeting (a Study Session), Monday, April 4, 2016.

... and NIMBIES will be planting bullfrogs,
and screaming "traffic" again.

Attend in person, 2212 Beach Boulevard, 2nd floor.  Or, view on local television or live feed Pacificcoast.TV, (formerly pct26.com).  If you miss civic meetings, view on PCT 26 You Tube!  The planning commission meeting begins at 7 p.m., or shortly there following.  Planning Commission updates, archives are available on the City website/Planning Commission.

Planning Commission Agenda, 4/4/16, pdf pages 24.

Open Session, 7:00 p.m.  Administrative.  Public Oral Communications.  Consent items, none.  Public Hearings, none. Consideration, none. 

Study session.
"Discussion of a conceptual plan to redevelop the Pacifica Quarry site with a program of wetland and hillside open space, creekside park with recational trails, a clustered commercial/residential village adjacent to the Rockaway Beach commercial district, and a hotel/conference venue.

 This time wetlands become
"swampland invested with
mosquitoes." (Todd Bray).

Proposed action:  The Planning Commission takes no formal action at Study Sessions.  Staff is requesting that the Planning Commission provide feedback on the conceptual plan and hear public comments." 

Communications:  Commission, Staff.  Adjourn.

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Save our pristine limestone!
Nothing for people and progress,
even though this time the proposed
project is clearly a NIMBY special.

Reference, from the developer. The Quarry Restore and Connect/Vision. "Restore the Land, Connect the Community." Community Benefits. "The Quarry offers residents and visitors a newly activated destination that complements Pacifica's coastal, small town character. An oceanfront Quarry Hotel and Conference Center will host community events and help support cost of site restoration while sparking economic benefits for the City. A mixed use Quarry Village, with shops clustered around an oceanfront plaza, will extend the Rockaway Beach district. And a new internal roadway will provide a safe frontage road along Highway One."

Related, news article.  Inside Bay Area/Julia Scott, 3/6/2008, "Developer to release new plan for quarry." .... "The developer's proposal has been workshopped by city officials for more than a year. Daniel Grimm, senior vice president for Peebles Corp., said the company was waiting for the city's say-so to make public the particulars. Grimm did say the project would include all the major elements of the earlier proposal, including the concept of a "walkable city" that would create a new downtown for hotel dwellers and Pacificans to patronize, with shuttle service in and out. The ballot measure of November 2006, which came up only 459 votes shy of approval, asked voters to approve up to 355 housing units, a luxury hotel and an unspecified amount of retail space at the quarry. The proposal would have preserved 45 percent of the quarry's acreage as publicly accessible open space as well." 

Note photographs.  Shock and no approval by President Barack and Michelle Obama, 4/28/16 by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters, "Reading to children at the annual Easter Egg Roll",  4 of 36 slides from CNN/Week in photos, 4/1/16.  Prior 2006 proposed project sign tossed in weeds  by NIMBIES from Rockaway Quarry, Pacifica CA (this link turns out to be just an image). Limestone quarry by Julia Scott from the related 3/6/2008 article. 

Posted by Kathy Meeh