New Hotel At Ponto Beach…Yipee
Written by admin on June 14, 2009
The City Council gave its unanimous approval Tuesday to a 215-room hotel project that could be the start of a large-scale revamping of Carlsbad’s southern Ponto beachfront region.
Council members also heard that night from about a dozen people with conflicting viewpoints on a proposal to ban night-time parking in a Rancho Carrillo neighborhood, and agreed to support an emotion-packed appeal to name a city ballfield for Carlsbad teen who died late last year.
The Hilton hotel project is proposed for an 8-acre site in the far northern end of the Ponto region, adjacent to the Hanover Beach Colony housing development. Several years ago, when the city first began discussing the project as part of a renovation plan for the entire Ponto region, a number of Hanover Beach residents expressed their opposition. And that includes me. Is there ANY area that we can continue to keep beach only? Such a tourist trap.