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By the end of this year, the gulf oil company will have presumably finished testing the political and ecological waters of marin County and decided what if anything it wants to do with its head land property indications are at this point. The Marinello development proposal will be

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renewed in modified form and that will of course reopen the longstanding classic feud over the use of this open space mike, lee, eyewitness news marin county of steep hills and valleys flexing northward from the golden gate is considered by many to be the last frontier of

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open space in marin County. Most of the land is government owned, but some remains in private hands. From 1964 to 68 conservationist fault to halt an ambitious residential development proposal to be known as marine cello Moran Cello would turn 2100 acres of the northern hillside into

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a so called planned community of high rise housing units surrounded by open space. Environmentalists however, insisted the cluster concept would create higher population densities than normal subdivisions. Although local government eventually approved, the planet fell victim to a tight money market and was suspended two years ago.

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The original developer has since died. But now the gulf oil company, through its subsidiary gulf Reston has revived the prospect of marin Cello and reawakened the battle spirit of those who opposed it. In an unusual if not unprecedented move, the marin County board of supervisors agreed

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to hold a sort of town meeting to allow gulf Reston to explain its immediate plans and meet the opposition. The development company opened its sales pitch with a 20 minute slideshow depicting the results of a planned community at its home base in rural western Virginia. Executive

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Vice President Glen Saunders tried to ease some of the collective apprehension by saying no plans have been made to date. As I indicated earlier, we will consider all alternatives. And these alternatives include not only the developing of the property in various ways, but would also include

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whether we should sell the property, uh, and any other alternatives that might be made or suggestions that might be made. We hope during these next three months to consider every alternative and in making our recommendation to golf, all of these alternatives will be considered. It was

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only designed to be an informal get together, not a public hearing, but one would perhaps never guessed by listening to Attorney William Bennett who opposed the plan in his own familiar style. Do you know that those golden gate headlines are featured in the book by the

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Sierra Club as one of the wonders of the world. They're not meant for arresting or for a high rise towers such as we saw or for libraries or tennis courts. Therefore this generation, the next generation, not just the marin county in California, but of the entire

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world. There's only one view like that and you should knock off this nonsense at once of the individual and a dozen others spoke from the audience. For the most part, the mood was cordial but firmly

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against the Marinello development.