A City Council meeting will be moved to Golden Hall next week to accommodate the large crowd expected when the panel takes up the controversial $750 million One Paseo project, City Clerk Elizabeth Maland said Monday.
In a report to the council, she said the county Registrar of Voters office examined 51,000 signatures on a referendum against the 23.6-acre project in Carmel Valley to obtain the required total of 33,224.
Now the City Council will be tasked with deciding whether to put the issue to the public for a vote, or rescind its previous approval of the project.
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Maland said that discussion will take place next Monday beginning at the special time of 1 p.m. Around 900 seats will be available to the public.
The proposed development by Kilroy Realty calls for 10 buildings encompassing nearly 1.5 million square feet of floor space, including shops, offices, a movie theater and more than 600 housing units south of Del Mar Heights Road, between El Camino Real and High Bluff Drive.
The project was approved on a pair of City Council votes earlier this year, by margins of 7-2 and 6-1.
The referendum was funded by Orange County-based Donahue Schriber, the owner of Del Mar Highlands Town Center across the street from the empty lot eyed by Kilroy. Donahue Schriber contends the project would worsen congestion in the area and that the city's community planning process was ignored.
