“As we reported earlier, Apple plans to build a one-story building on the site of the defunct three-story Borders building on the Third Street Promenade that will have a glass ceiling/roof, and a front wall of glass,” Peggy Clifford reports for The Santa Monica Dispatch.
“As it does with all commercial projects, City staff prepared a detailed staff report on the Apple project (though it did not mention Apple and purported not to know who the actual builder was), complete with renderings, and, as it virtually always does, it concluded that the commission should approve the project and it should go forward,” Clifford reports. “Nothing surprising there. The surprise was that the staff put the projecton the Consent Calendar. I cannot remember any large, complex commercial project ever going on the Consent Calendar. Apple was the only item on last night’s Calendar. And, under the rules, the Consent Calendar is approved as a whole – unless someone wishes to pull at item for discussion.”
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Clifford reports, “And in that crucial blink, the commissioners approved the Consent Calendar (aka Apple Glass House), and that was that – except for a staff report on the redesign of the Project Case List, after which they adjourned.”
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