"Mr. Parker has been extremely cooperative and actively involved in working with Coastal Commission staff to reach this resolution which both addresses our Coastal Act concerns and will result in greater coastal access and conservation in the Big Sur and Monterey Peninsula areas, " Charles Lester, the commission's executive director, said in a statement.
Under the tribunal rules, for example, companies of under 20 staff will be obliged to have formal dispute-resolution procedures in place, something they have so far been spared.
"I kept waiting for a moment when heroes would rise to the occasion, because it's such a unique moment in our history, " says Leon Panetta, the former Clinton chief of staff who has been lobbying Democrats and Republicans to pass a bipartisan censure resolution.