Two newly released documents promoting a wholesale makeover of the Marina Village banquet center on Mission Bay are roiling San Diego advocates and pushing city officials to defend plans to declare dozens of acres of bayfront parkland surplus property.

One is a brochure describing a “world-class marina and hotel destination” that would attract thousands of tourists and business travelers to the city.

The other is an 11-page letter detailing the redevelopment project, a sweeping master-planned community of up to 900 housing units — a land use that is not currently allowed on the publicly owned parkland.

Aides to Mayor Todd Gloria say the unsolicited Marina Village proposal is dead on arrival because housing is not permitted on public parkland. But critics worry that legally designating t

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