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Coastal Panel OKs Coronado Hotel Addition

The California Coastal Commission on Oct. 15 gave conditional approval to renovation plans at Hotel del Coronado.

The Coronado hotel’s owners, Strategic Hotels & Resorts and KSL Resorts, plan to add 144 luxury condominium units, a 50,000-square-foot conference center and an underground parking garage.

Commissioners’ approval of the renovation, which had been opposed by a local group called Concerned Citizens for Keeping the Hotel del Beautiful, was conditioned on operators’ revising plans to keep new structures out of an earthquake fault zone.

Also, operators will be assessed a per-unit fee of $30,000 for one-quarter of the 144 proposed luxury condos, a total of $1.08 million for the 36 units. The fee is intended to mitigate the loss of land area that could otherwise have been used for affordable overnight visitor accommodations in the area under state coastal guidelines, and will be put toward subsequent construction of lower-cost facilities.

— Lou Hirsh

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