1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 two were already granted to Ian Schrager. They conveyed
2 with the site. You heard this how he has 130 more
3 parking spaces. You heard how the setbacks were equally
4 good. So you can take that one off the table.
5 The tough one is the too much mass, bulk, and
6 scale because -- because that's judgmental, and you can
7 dismiss silly stuff which is the arguments it's bigger
8 than Home Depot. It's on 15 acres. That doesn't mean
9 anything. It meets the FAR requirement.
10 An editorial in the news press yesterday
11 called it a retail mall because of the shops. There's
12 4,000 square feet of shops down at the Biltmore. I mean
13 who's going to call this a retail mall. I would suggest
14 to you that opponents who cry too much mass, as a
15 hotelier, they don't their mass from a hole in the
16 ground. The other one is --
17 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Go back to your hole in
18 the ground.
19 MR. BIERIG: Excuse me. Excuse me.
20 MS. GOTTSDANKER: That was really
21 inappropriate.
22 MR. BIERIG: No, no. That's totally
23 inappropriate, and you know, you simply are not going to
24 make comments about a speaker from the background. That
25 is not going to happen. He has to live with what he
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