PORT ANGELES — The proposed Oak Street hotel and conference center cleared another hurdle this week but there are more to come, according to the project’s biggest opponent.
In a 5-1 decision released Tuesday, the state Shoreline Management Hearings Board rejected an appeal of the shoreline development permit for the project.
Randal Ehm, president of Ehm Architecture of San Diego and Seattle, has proposed a four-story, 165-room, $17.5 million hotel and conference center, with enough conference space for as many as 700 people, to be built on 3.8 acres of downtown waterfront at the corner of Front and Oak streets.
The appeal was filed by Best Western Olympic Lodge owner Tod McClaskey Jr. and two Port Angeles residents, Ed Tuttle and Carl Alexander Jr.
It claimed the project violated the state’s Shoreline Management Act and blocked territorial views from Second Street bluffs.
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