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And in this corner...Pebble Beach

"Million Dollar Baby" Oscar winner Clint Eastwood thanked the people of Monterey County in his award acceptance speech but some of the people there are pretty pissed at him.

Old Man Eastwood is part owner of the Pebble Beach Co. which is looking to level 17,000 Monterey pine trees for another golf course, expand hotel facilities and construct employee housing near the world-famous Pebble Beach links.

Eleven of the guestrooms will be built on the new golf course and the rest will be tacked on to the existing hotels, Lodge at Pebble Beach and Inn at Spanish Bay.

Pebble Beach Co.'s development plans have pissed off area environmentalists including the Sierra Club who plans on submitting 3,500 member signatures rejecting the proposal. At the heart of their issues is the destruction of the rare Monterey pine trees within the 5,300-acre Del Monte Forest.

The proposal, which passed on a previous ballot measure with strict environmental restrictions, has taken nearly four years to reach the Monterey County Board of Supervisors who will make a decision Mar. 15 on whether or not it will be implemented.

For now, Eastwood has been quiet on the issue but we are sure he is thinking "fake left, hit right."

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