What will Harbor Village look like?


By on Wed, August 11, 2004

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Current plan, Main Lodge south elevation. This probably gives the best idea of the scale of the project as seen from the harbor.
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Current plan, Main Lodge west elevation.
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This original site plan gives you an idea of how Harbor Village will be oriented on its site. The large parking lot will be the main feature as seen from Highway 1.
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Here is the layout of the project. The "lighthouse" in the upper right is no longer part of the project.
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Ground floor layout, showing two retail shells. It's unclear what the retail shell will look like if the hotel isn't built.
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Second floor layout.

Last week, I wrote about The planned Harbor Village development. Critics are assailing it as an eyesore, but I couldn’t find any pictures when I posted the story.  After some digging around, I managed to get some current pictures of the planned hotel from the county, and some old site plans of the project as a whole.

There have been changes since the original site plans were created. The fake "lighthouse" shown on these plans has been removed at the request of the Coastal Commission. But they give some idea of what we can expect until we can get more current site plans.

Personally, I’ve been ambivalent about the project, but I was startled by how large and monolithic the hotel would be from Capistrano Road.

Click on each of the pictures on the right to see a full-sized version in a separate window.