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by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a proposed four-story, 161-room, 81,771 square foot hotel and an accompanying 14,500 square foot office and retail building on the former El Torito site along Sepulveda Boulevard. The hotel takes advantage of “Sepulveda overlay” zoning, enacted in 2019, that allows a height of 40 feet and will thus become the tallest building in the city’s Sepulveda corridor. The size and height of the project attracted overwhelming neighborhood opposition from a group calling itself “MB Poets,” named for the section of town just east of the project site which has poet street names, such as Tennyson and Keats. Both MB Poets and the employee union representing another hotel in town, Westdrift, appealed the Planning Commission’s previous approval of the hotel, and filed lawsuits accusing the developer of defying California environmental law. ....
Blizzard conditions Wednesday into Thursday blamed for hundreds of crashes statewide The Minnesota State Patrol responded to 184 crashes and 441 spin outs, 19 jackknifed semi-trailers and 133 stalled vehicles. 12:44 pm, Dec. 24, 2020 × Vehicles were still stuck Thursday morning on US Highway 12 between Benson and Murdock. Photo courtesy of Minnesota State Patrol WILLMAR Hundreds of crashes, spin outs and stalled vehicles plagued Minnesota roads Wednesday due to high winds blowing snowfall across the state. According to Minnesota State Patrol Sgt. Jesse Grabow, from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, the State Patrol responded to 184 crashes and 441 spin outs, 19 jackknifed semi-trailers and 133 stalled vehicles. Multiple roads were shut down in western Minnesota due to limited visibility and stalled vehicles, including U.S. Highway 12 from DeGraff to Kerkhoven around 5 p.m. in Swift County, according to Swift County She ....
Swift County approves patrol contract for Murdock The Swift County Sheriff s office will dedicate patrol hours to the city of Murdock under an agreement identical to one in place with the city of Kerkhoven. The city of Murdock requested the contract for dedicated patrol hours. 5:55 am, Dec. 19, 2020 × The Murdock City Council approved a contract Dec. 9 for dedicated patrol hours from the Swift County Sheriff s Office. The Swift County Board of Commissioners approved the contract at its meeting Dec. 15. Mark Wasson / West Central Tribune file photo BENSON The city of Murdock will be contracting with the Swift County Sheriff’s Office to increase the presence of patrols by deputies in the community. ....