In a staff report, the California Coastal Commission is urged to approve the 350,000 square foot hotel project for the American Tin Cannery. Local environmental groups are pushing back.
For years, opponents of a proposed luxury resort hotel to replace the American Tin Cannery contended the project was too large and not properly vetted by the City of Pacific
Brigadier typically brings a broom to sweep the Coast Guard Pier of debris, and collects abandoned fishing line that can entangle and strangle marine animals.
Developers of a proposed resort hotel on the site of the American Tin Cannery already knew they were going to have to jackhammer their way through solid granite bedrock to create underground parking for the 225 rooms, 20,000 square feet of retail space, a restaurant, bars and meeting spaces above. Theyâre now finding another hard-as-rock barrier to success: resolute residents upset over the removal of 79 trees and the possibility that the hammering will harm a nearby colony of harbor seals.
âWeâre convinced that the excavation and construction for the two-year duration of this development will drive the harbor seals away from Hopkins [Marine Station Beach],â Thom Akeman told the Pacific Grove Architectural Review Board on Dec. 15. (Akeman, with his wife, Kim, is a docent with BAY NET, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Volunteer Network.)