Environmental Extortion On CA Coast

In a move that conservationists say is a trap, Hearst Corp. says that it has a compromise to get its resort approved.

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February 9, 2001, 10:45 AM PST

The Coastal Commission rejected a Hearst plan to build a resort at San Simeon in 1998. Now Hearst Corp. has a compromise: approve its plan for a 257 acre resort, and it will sell development rights for the other 83,000 acres on the Central Coast. Critics of the plan call it a trap. Similar plans by other developers have been called environmental terrorism.

Thanks to Gwenn Hilburn

FULL STORY: Hearst Offers New Plan for Resort

Friday, February 9, 2001 in The Los Angeles Times

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