San Clemente : Council Delays Action on Nixon Library Plan
The City Council late Wednesday night voted unanimously to postpone until Wednesday its action on Phase I of a development plan that would house the long-awaited Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
After three meetings at which presentations were made by the city’s planning staff and the developer, Lusk Co. of Irvine, the council decided it will make several revisions to resolutions before voting on them next week.
Council members directed the Planning Department to find compromises between what Lusk has proposed and what the city is suggesting on a 253-acre development called the Marblehead Coastal Plan.
Councilman Robert Limberg said he believes the council generally favors the plan.
“We just need to refine these resolutions so we can take a final vote,” he said.
As proposed by Lusk, the plan would include the library, three hotels, 1,290 homes and a commercial complex atop a 100-foot-high bluff along oceanfront property near Avenido Pico.
The city’s current proposal would require Lusk to donate four more acres to the public facilities portion of the development, thereby reducing the number of homes to 1,198. The city would also require Lusk to make improvements to a 12-acre city park.
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