July 6, 2017 -- Santa Monica’s biggest business group says a plan guiding development downtown through 2030 fails to provide enough housing and is too harsh on a trio of big hotel-mixed use projects, including possible requirements for public approval.

After six years of often acrimonious debate, the Downtown Community Plan (DCP) heads to the City Council on Monday for a final public hearing. The special session starts at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall, 1641 Main Street.

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce is rallying its members to make a showing at the hearing, as are its rivals in the development battle -- the slow-growth movement.

The final draft of the DCP does not “responsibly address our regional housing supply crisis,” Carl Hansen, the chamber’s director of government affairs, said in an email to members this week.

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