Monterey Herald - January 29, 1986
Board of Supervisors' Meeting January 28, 1986
Spanish Bay Development - Sawmill Gulch
Conditions
Monterey County supervisors gave their final
approval Tuesday to the controversial Pebble Beach
conveyor belt system, but opponents indicated they
may not be giving up their long fight.
Karin Perling, president of the Peninsula
Concerned Neighbors, said her group will meet
Thursday to discuss future strategy.
The supervisors, while denying the group's
appeal of county Planning Commission approval of
the project, imposed numerous conditions designed
to mitigate the belt's impact on the
environment.
The belt, which will be used to transport sand
from the Sawmill Gulch "Borrow Site" to the site of
the proposed construction of a hotel at Spanish
bay, will run close to homes in the Del Monte Park
housing area in nearby Pacific Grove.
Supervisors added conditions requiring that the
borrow site be restored, revegetated and placed in
a scenic easement.
Another condition specifies that "any successful
court challenge to any part of the permit by any
party, where any conditions are deleted or
modified, will invalidate the entire permit."
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The conveyor system itself is subject to 27
conditions, including restricted operating hours of
7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays for a
period not to exceed seven months from the start of
the operation.
Ms. Perling, who said her organization
represents 800 households in the Del Monte Park, a
housing area adjacent to Pebble Beach, told The
Herald that "we may have a public display of
displeasure about how the Pebble Beach Company and
the Pebble Beach Community Services District have
been treating their neighbors."
"I'm not happy about the belt, and we're upset
about digging that hole (at Sawmill Gulch), but I'm
ecstatic that we don't get the sewer plant." she
said.
Ms. Perling was referring to one of the
conditions which requires the company to grant a
permanent scenic easement to the county over the
borrow site and adjacent deforested area, which
will preclude any possibility of putting a sewer
plant there.
Another member of the neighborhood group,
Melinda Mayland of Del Monte Park, said, "They're
letting them get their conveyor belt, and they're
letting us get some forest back, even through it
will take decades to grow into full trees
again."
Mrs. Mayland, who lives 150 feet from the
conveyor belt route, said her husband sleeps days
and "I am for his sleep as well as for our
neighbors' sanity."
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