Planning Director Gerald Gilbert told state commissioners in a letter distributed to City Council members yesterday that the project does not take away large amounts of parking, protects lower-cost visitor facilities, will not adversely affect traffic, doesn't put too big a project on the beach and provides access to a proposed public plaza.

Those are all objections raised by the commission staff to the $120-million, 400-room hotel project.

Manchester Resorts proposes a project on a two-block area bounded by Pacific and Myers streets, Seagaze Drive and Pier View Way. Also part of the project is a proposed 150-suite vacation time-share project on the adjacent property between Pier View Way and Civic Center Drive.