PLN150337-EXT2 - ESALEN INSTITUTE (ESALEN SOUTH COAST EMPLOYEE HOUSING) Administrative hearing to consider a Second Three-Year Extension to a previously approved Combined Development Permit (PLN150337) allowing an after-the-fact approval of a fire truck garage (approx. 600 square feet); construction of 3 new employee housing structures (32-units and approx. 12,893 square feet total) increasing the total employee housing units to 43; construction of an employee common room (approx. 1,133 square feet); and development on slopes in excess of 30% and within the Critical Viewshed. Project Location: 54105 Highway 1, Big Sur Proposed CEQA action: Consider the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration, together with an Addendum, and find that the Permit Extension does not require subsequent environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15164.

Committee

Administrative Permit

Requested by

Housing and Community Development

Introduced

March 10, 2026

On agenda

March 18, 2026

Where it was heard

Administrative Permit Mar 18, 2026

Watch Monterey County

Say what matters to you — a street, a company, a subject — and we will email you when Monterey County files something about it.

Watch this

Free for 14 days, no card — and nothing charges itself: at day 14 the emails simply stop unless you choose to subscribe ($19 a month). One email when something matches, and nothing else. Unsubscribe from any of them. Searching stays free — it is public record.