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Public comment urges moratorium on new visitor-serving units in Big Sur over disputed cap count
Summary
A public commenter told the Planning Commission the county's visitor-serving unit (VSU) cap in the Big Sur Land Use Plan may have been exceeded due to a faulty Capital Improvement Program (CIP) reference and asked the commission to revisit a 2023 moratorium decision.
During the Feb. 26 public-comment period, Tim Green urged the Monterey County Planning Commission to reconsider the county's VSU (visitor-serving unit) accounting for Big Sur and to re-open a moratorium on new visitor-serving units while the counts are reviewed.
Green told commissioners the Big Sur Land Use Plan counts a baseline of 68 rooms and allows up to 300 new…
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