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Laguna Beach council hears plea to keep PMMC field hospital; dog‑park users and pantry urge alternatives
Summary
Pacific Marine Mammal Center requested conversion of a temporary field hospital at the dog park to a permanent, reduced‑footprint pop‑up facility citing rising domoic acid blooms and public‑safety capacity needs; neighbors, dog‑park advocates and Laguna Food Pantry opposed permanent conversion and asked the council to review legal covenants and master‑plan alternatives.
The Laguna Beach City Council took public comment and questioned staff after the Pacific Marine Mammal Center requested that a temporary field hospital sited on part of the city’s dog park be retained in a reduced footprint as a permanent "pop‑up" facility for future domoic acid (DA) bloom years.
Jeremy (city staff) summarized the history: in 2023 the city issued a temporary use permit (TUP) allowing PMMC to use about 15,000 square feet of a roughly 115,000 square‑foot parcel while PMMC renovated its main facility. PMMC now asks the city to convert the use from temporary to permanent and said details would reduce the footprint to roughly 12,000 square feet and remove several trailers, returning about 90% of the dog park footprint to public use.
Dr. Deming, vice president of conservation medicine and science at the Pacific Marine Mammal…
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