A play-by-play recap of why neighbors are appealing the approval of a block-long building on Lincoln Boulevard

By Tim Tunks. Santa Monica resident Tim Tunks is a designer and retired educator.

A few doors down from my small Ocean Park duplex, a new development planned for 2903 Lincoln Blvd. would stretch an entire city block. Where there’s now an auto shop and a plumbing store, picture 47 apartments above ground-floor restaurant and retail spanning the east side of Lincoln between Ashland Avenue and Wilson Place — four stories tall on the north end and, at 308 feet, stretching far enough to overlap the goal lines on both ends of the Rose Bowl. Drive down Lincoln from Montana Avenue to LAX, and you won’t see a building with as much potential impact on north-south traffic flow.

The Santa Monica Planning Commission approved this project during a public hearing on Jan. 10.

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