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Campers Await Harbor Terrace
The Tribune Reports On The Harbor Terrace Campground Project In Avila Beach Expected To Finally Break Ground In Summer of 2019 And Add Nearly Two Hundred Accommodations For Family Camping & Recreation.
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The anticipated Harbor Terrace campground project in Avila Beach appears to have cleared its final hurdle. Port San Luis Harbor District commissioners unanimously approved a 50-year lease with Red Tail Acquisitions, acting as RTA Harbor Terrace LLC on Wednesday, capping off more than four decades of conceptual planning, and more recently, two years of intense negotiation. The Harbor Terrace project will add 57 RV campsites, 53 walk-in and drive-in tent camping sites, 51 RV cabins, a lodge, swimming pool, restaurant or café, recreation facilities and other visitor amenities at a 32-acre spot near the entrance to Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The development company is currently working on its final design drawings for the project. “The district looks forward to providing family recreation camping while at the same time securing financial stability so as to continue improving all services benefiting the public,” Board President Drew Brandy said Thursday.
Existing uses at the property — like the fishermen’s gear storage, trailer boat storage and harbor use area — will remain there and continue to be used for port operations, according to a news release. The project is expected to break ground in spring or summer 2019, and will take around eight months to build. The Harbor Terrace development was first conceived in 1977 when the Harbor District purchased land for the development; over the years, the district attempted to develop the property several times, but those options were shot down, usually due to their size or character, according to a district staff report. The most current iteration of the project was approved by the County Planning Commission in 2015, and then appealed to both the County Board of Supervisors and then the California Coastal Commission- both unsuccessful. But the debate wasn’t over for the hotly contested project: soon after the final appeal was withdrawn, the district’s preferred development company dropped out, and the district began to renegotiate a new bid with Red Tail Acquisitions, a development company out of Newport Beach.
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