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  Chinatown project in SLO is going up, slowly, in phases

  The long-sought Chinatown project in downtown San Luis Obispo is moving forward after more than two years of delays, but it will likely be another decade before the entire project is complete.

  The City Council approved a new plan late Tuesday that allows Copeland Properties to build the hotel, retail and residential complex in two phases, starting with the commercial and residential phase on Monterey Street and later the 78-room hotel on Palm Street.

  The developer plans to build 46,140 square feet of retail space and 32 residential units while preserving and retrofitting the historic buildings at Chorro and Monterey streets, including the Blackstone, Sauer Bakery and former Muzio’s building. The only structure that will be demolished under the new plan is the vacant Bello building.

• LAFCO board postpones making a decision on Pismo Beach development

  LAFCO board postpones making a decision on Pismo Beach development

  Pismo Beach’s attempt to add 182 acres is on hold while LAFCO gets more information

• San Miguel land in limbo over illegal grading fines

  San Miguel land in limbo over illegal grading fines

  Declaring themselves “insulted” by a proposal considered lowball, the Board of Supervisors this week declined to shrink a fine levied for illegal grading that damaged an archaeological site adjacent to Mission San Miguel to $13,000 — down from $1.8 million first sought six years ago.

  “There has been something done there that was wrong,” said Supervisor Frank Mecham, referring to the illegal grading, and there has to be genuine accountability, not the “kind of an insult” manifested in the $13,000 number.

  The board’s decision is the latest episode in a long-running saga involving a would-be 58-unit housing project called Mission Gardens Estates.

• Prospect dim for Pismo duplex

  Prospect dim for Pismo duplex

  Plans to build a duplex at the mouth of Pismo Creek face an uphill battle Thursday when they go before the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco.

  Commission staff is recommending rejection of the project, which was approved by the Pismo Beach City Council a year ago. The development has several unusual features.

  It is so close to the creek that it would be built on 8-foot-tall pilings to prevent flooding. It is also so close to an existing vacation rental that the other building would have to be partially demolished to accommodate it.

• Viewpoint: Don’t miss opportunity to preserve open space at low cost

  Viewpoint: Don’t miss opportunity to preserve open space at low cost

  A citizens committee was appointed by the Cambria Community Services District Board of Directors to determine if adding more open-space property makes financial sense as part of the lot transfer program first adopted in 2001. Unfortunately, the committee has recommended to the board that no transfers be made at this time because of cost.

  In my opinion this is very short-sighted and needs to be seriously reconsidered. I say this with some experience and proficiency. I am a former chairman of the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commission (PROS) and chairman of the Open Space Committee. I took the lead in 2001 at initiating the transfer of over 200 lots or about 10 acres mostly adjacent to Fern Canyon. The CCSD board approved the proposal to retire the lots in perpetuity. The 2001 board recognized that retiring lots:

  • Reduced the communities demand for water by removing the development potential of lots;