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the Civic Center hearing room for the Marin County Planning Commission was jammed with more than 500 person. The vast bulk of the audience was against the proposed Renaissance Village Center and Fair in Lucas Valley. Homeowners in Lucas Valley Marin Wooden of the nearby communities now have

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been banded together for weeks to oppose the development, which covers 1000 acres north of San Rafael. It's part of the old Grady Ranch, five miles west of Highway 11 on Lucas Valley Road, on a knoll of some 25 acres, is where a permanent Renaissance center has

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been proposed. This is where the founders of the Renaissance Fair are planning to install a permanent facility. This model purports to show what Phyllis and Ron Paterson call an unusual combination of cultural, historical and creative facilities are really ultimate Goal is to create a study center

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of the Renaissance arts and crafts. And that's what we have purchased land in Lucas Valley for Why do you think that you're getting the kind of opposition from some of the residents that you are? Well, I think that some of the opposition is to be expected.

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Obviously, there will be some heavy traffic on the roads for a few weekends a year. But we think that we have a good traffic plan, and we think that the year round centers, cultural contribution and educational contribution will be certainly worthwhile for the Bay Area and

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especially for Marine County. But the opposition is extensive, and it comes from the people in the Valley who feel most strongly about preserving the residential quality of this plot of land. I think perhaps the main objections, a two fold number one is you can see it's

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a strictly residential, our community, Mrs Patterson and her Renaissance Fair on center, Our commercial activity interjected into a strictly residential area. Number one number two. Mrs Patterson has a dream. The Renaissance Center would will perhaps always remain a dream. She has no plans for the next

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four years to do anything but perhaps research. We'd like to know what she's going to do when she has given us no answers whatsoever. How much support do you have for your position in Lucas Valley? I would call it total if I may. Miss Fernandez, Just

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exactly what are the people of the Lucas Valley afraid of? I think perhaps the A number one thing in the top of their heads as traffic, Mrs. Passion is going to be bringing 10 to 12,000 people into the fair site. There's only one road we have.

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Only we all have to use the same access. Number one number two is the second thing is that fire? We begin the fire trucks must come in and out on the same road that the fair track the fair traffic is using. The Renaissance Center is going

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to be a small replica of an old English village where there will be an in and students can stay there in the atmosphere of 1/16 century. They can then study in the performing arts or in the performing crafts, being apprentice to master performers or master craftsman.

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Uh, this will be very tight in with Bay Area school system and with other kinds of foundations that are also interested in the arts and crafts of not just this period but the arts and crafts of all periods. Because I think the 16th century is only

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the focus, you see, the outcome of today's action is by no means final. Both sides in this dispute have indicated they'll appeal to the Marine Board of Supervisors, probably the last meeting in November. After that, a court case is virtually assured. Ed Arnaud for Eyewitness News

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in Lucas Valley, Marin County.