Rendering of a proposed five-story, 100-room Hyatt hotel to be located on the bluff adjacent to the Cher-Ae Heights Casino, overlooking the Pacific. | Image via the Coastal Commission report.

Well, for much of the afternoon and early evening it looked like things were headed in the other direction, but the California Coastal Commission on Thursday night gave a conditional go-ahead to the Trinidad Rancheria to build a five-story, 100-room hotel on the bluff above Scenic Drive, overlooking the majestic Pacific Ocean.