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In the course of reviewing documents in the EIR lawsuit, attorney Michael Stamp and his client Pat Bernardi noticed, at the bottorn of some city reports, a the billing code for the law firm Lombardo & Gilles. Previously, Bernardi and Stamp had prevailed in a 2000 case against Monterey County, in which the same law firm was found to have "ghost-written" documents that were passed off as the work of Monterey County staff. Believing there to be a similar pattern now with the city of Monterey, Stamp and Bernardi filed a public records lawsuit against the city, which prompted then-assistant Monterey City Attorney Deborah Mall to call Stamp "that molting amphibian" in an e-mail.
"The Ocean View Plaza site...is unattractive, inaccessible, contains an atrisk historic structure and detracts from the pedestrian's experience of Cannery Row," reads the council's letter to the Coastal Commission. The letter highlights the planned project's attributes, including graffiti cleanup, public access to the rocky shoreline, affordable housing $2 million in road improvements along Lighthouse Avenue, and a history center, which would be located in the rehabilitated San Xavier Fish Reduction Plant The center would explore, among other things, the issues and controversies surrounding Monterey's historical fishing industry and immigrant communities, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the internment camps.See the full content of this document
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Ocean View Plaza Heads to Coastal Commission
It has weathered three lawsuits, one ballot initiative and a dozen years of solitude. And now, in the upcoming months, the California Coastal Commission will weigh in on Cannery Row's notorious Ocean View Plaza project. The commission recently postponed its review of the pro...
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