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Del Monte Forest Land Use Advisory Committee (DMFLUAC)

September 23, 2002

Mr. Scott Hennessy
Director, Planning and building Inspection
Monterey County
240 Church Street
Salinas, CA 93901

Re: Scoping Meeting, Pebble Beach Project

Dear Mr. Hennessy:

The Del Monte Forest Land Use Advisory Committee is sincerely appreciative of your invitation to participate in the scheduled scoping meeting on September 25, 2002, concerning the Pebble Beach Company project.

The committee met this date and considered its perspectives on potential impacts of the project in relation to the topics for analysis prepared by your office. In general terms, the committee considers the topics comprehensive and complete. The documentation is clear and definitive and apprises the reader in detail of the nature and extent of the issues and subjects to be covered in the EIR. Particularly helpful (and reassuring) is the summary of major issues. These range from tree removal to construction traffic to protection of sensitive habitat. The scoping document, in the judgment of the committee, adequately identifies the range of actions, alternatives, and mitigation measures essential to the proposed EIR.

Notwithstanding the committee's general approval of the scoping document, the committee urges inclusion of the proposed Highway 1 gate improvements in the EIR being prepared by Jones & Stokes, as opposed to those improvements being addressed in a separate EIR. The need for those improvements is pressing and immediate and should be foremost once the EIR is certified and the project approved. Availability of water for the new golf course, protection of the forest pine habitat and wetlands, reasonable architectural design criteria in terms of size and scale, and phasing of construction, are other important issues which require full attention in the EIR.

Several members of the committee, specifically, Mrs. O'Brien, Mr. Hunter, and Mr. De Lay, have individual comments, and these are attached for your consideration.

Mr. Lloyd Townley, committee member and secretary, plans to be present at the September 25 meeting and orally request your consideration of these remarks.

Thank you, again, for the opportunity to participate in this phase of the Pebble Beach Company project.

Very truly yours,

/s/
Paul R. De Lay, Chair

encl: Individual Comments (3)

cc Thomas A. McCue, Senior Planner, w/encl
Mr. Mark Stilwell, Executive Vice-President, Pebble Beach Company, w/encl

Paul De Lay letter to the DMFLUAC with subject areas for discussion and possible inclusion at the Scoping Meeting Janice M. O'Brien comments to the Scoping Meeting Concerned Residents letter to Scott Hennessy with enclosure of six recommendations for issues to include at the Scoping Meeting on P.B.Co. development