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

1 expect this result. So I'm probably at a little bit of
2 a loss for words and obviously very disappointed.
3 We have worked very hard to put a project
4 together. I thought at least it was pretty remarkable
5 that we had every homeowners' association in the area,
6 including the Montecito Association, endorsing us,
7 including county staff supporting our findings.
8 And you know, the dozens of studies that
9 we've done -- to your point, Mr. Chairman, there are
10 three traffic studies on this project. But nonetheless,
11 we've come up short. I certainly respect your
12 authority. I certainly respect your ability to make a
13 decision any way you want.
14 But with the last vote, putting aside the
15 tweaking on the project -- with the last vote what you
16 basically have voted on is that the underlying
17 documentation on the project is not adequate.
18 So what we need to do is we need to retrench
19 and figure out how we move forward, but effectively
20 you've denied the project because it goes to the
21 underlying entitlements of the documentation and the
22 environmental documentation.
23 So to preserve some value on this land and
24 preserve options and for us to be able to go back and
25 sort of look at this site with a clean slate, I would
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