The State - News from Oct. 8, 1986

A simmering dispute between merchants along Monterey’s Cannery Row and the two-year old Monterey Bay Aquarium was put on hold as the city council referred proposals to ease tensions to the city’s planning commission for further study. Merchants have complained that the popular museum has clogged traffic and siphoned off business that normally would have gone to shops and restaurants along the row. Last month, the city council limited the museum’s operating hours and restricted the types of items the aquarium may sell in its gift shop-bookstore. The museum offered a compromise, proposing to provide weekend parking and to change its entrance so that only aquarium visitors, rather than any passer-by, could get into its bookstore. City fathers feel a compromise will be reached without acrimony. Said Mayor Clyde Roberson: “We want to create a win-win situation.”