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Published on: 5/3/2008
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Two years later, the public hasn't seen hide nor hair of the draft EIR, but Security National Senior Vice President Brian Morrissey said things could be a lot worse.
"Certainly we would have preferred to have the EIR sooner, but I think it is much more important to have a complete document where the public can see both the positives and the negatives, if there are any, of the Marina Center project," Morrissey said.
Eureka Senior Planner Sidnie Olson said this week she's still working on the document with the hopes of getting it out in the coming months.Admitting she never thought the process could be completed in six months, Olson said several things have slowed the process to a crawl, causing it to take far longer than she, or almost anyone else, thought it would.
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Morrissey said Security National is paying more than $1 million for the process of creating the document, a cost that goes up slightly with each delay.But Morrissey was quick to add that there are more important things than slight cost increases.
"It does go up a little bit over time, but the incremental costs because of delays are far less important than getting the right, fully accurate and complete document out to the public," he said.
Olson said the city is focused on working toward that goal, and hopes the document will be off her desk in the coming months.
"We're going to get it done as soon as we possibly can," she said.
While that can't come soon enough for Morrissey, he said he never had any illusions that this would be a quick process.
"We knew when we started this project that it would be a long, involved public process where the city and all the various stake holders would have input," he said.