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CONCERNED RESIDENTS OF PEBBLE BEACH
and Monterey County

a Non-Profit California Corporation

SPECIAL BULLETIN



April, 2005

Your Board of Supervisors disregarded your property rights!
They voted to put an equestrian center in your neighborhood!

 

On March 15th, your Board of Supervisors, by a unanimous vote, approved the Pebble Beach Company’s development of the Lower Sawmill scenic and conservation easement site for a new commercial equestrian center. By this vote they radically changed your neighborhood environment.

The new equestrian center includes the development of a massive commercial equestrian center on the Upper Sawmill site and provisions on the Lower Sawmill site for significant special equestrian event activities. There will be high intensity use for more than fifty days a year. In addition, there will be special event parking of hundreds of cars for the AT&T Golf Tournament, Concourse D’elegance, etc.

Your neighborhood will be transformed from a quiet residential area to one adjacent to heavy traffic, large vehicles, noise, dirt, temporary show arenas, hundreds of cars and a significant number of large busses to transport spectators to and from special events sites in the Forest.

What can be done about the supervisors action? Your neighborhood’s future now rests with the California Coastal Commission.

The new equestrian center cannot be built if the Coastal Commission refuses to approve modification of their Upper Sawmill scenic and conservation easement. This easement, like the one on the Lower Sawmill site, was placed there as a condition for approval of the Pebble Beach Company’s Spanish Bay Resort development 20 years ago. The Coastal Commission staff says this easement is irrevocable. The written document says it’s irrevocable. Yet, the Pebble Beach Company wants to change it.

Remember, your supervisors had a solemn obligation to uphold the Lower Sawmill scenic easement agreement they and the Pebble Beach Company willingly entered into 20 years ago. To your detriment, neither the supervisors nor the Pebble Beach Company upheld their end of the bargain.

The California Coastal Commission is your last, best hope for the future of your neighborhood. Ask the Coastal Commission to keep the scenic easement as is. Make your voice heard to prevent this travesty.

Please send your comments to:

California Coastal Commission
Re: Pebble Beach Company Development Plan and Measure A
725 Front Street #300, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Detailed information about the equestrian center and scenic easement are attached.



P.O. BOX 1229, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 • www.cr-pb.org

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Attachment

Near-term effect on your neighborhood:

  • Removal of 3,200 trees
  • Hauling in 14,500 cubic yards of dirt -the equivalent of 1,600 round trip truck trips
  • Grading of 4 1,400 cubic yards of dirt
  • Construction of a clubhouse, overnight dormitory building, covered arena, stall barns, accessory structures/facilities, and housing for six families on the Upper Sawmill site
  • Construction supply trucks
  • Construction worker traffic
  • Dust, noise and air pollution


Near-term effect on your neighborhood:

  • Increased traffic due to permanent equestrian center operations
  • Equestrian special event operations:
    • Truck parking, temporary stables, spectator parking and arena a few hundred feet from residential area
    • More than 50 days of equestrian events annually
    • Hundreds of horses (360 Stalls) at major equestrian events, stabled on Lower Sawmill site
    • Heavy diesel powered trucks to haul horses in and out parked on Lower Sawmill site (100 parking spaces)
    • 150 parking spaces for spectators and horse owners; no prohibitions on street parking
    • No specific prohibition on overnight occupancy on temporary equestrian site
  • Other special event parking:
    • Entire Lower Sawmill site will be used for parking hundreds of cars
    • AT&T and Concourse D' elegance plus unknown other events
    • Noisy diesel powered busses to transport visitors to and from events
    • Improved Congress Road will be preferred bus route
  • Conditions on rest of year
    • Lower Sawmill site will be a ugly, barren, treeless area

      Visit our web site at www.cr-pb.org for the latest information
      on important events affecting our community


      Mail any comments you have to:

      Concerned Residents of Pebble Beach
      P.O. Box 1229
      Pebble Beach, CA 93953

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