Solana Beach and a key state agency will continue negotiating a plan to limit construction along the city’s coastline and restrict homeowners’ ability to keep seawalls aimed at protecting fragile bluffs along the shoreline.
Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense next to the pier to tame the tide, the latest thinking is to flee.
For more than 25 controversial years, Peter M. Douglas fought to preserve California’s shoreline as well as the independence of the powerful regulatory agency he helped create
The Commission will act on Costal Staff recommendations to modify LCP exceptions presented by Santa Cruz County. The LCP provision would allow for exceptions from certain maximum scale and bulk standards
The Board will consider two Coastal Commission suggested modifications to proposed amendments to the County’s fence regulations in County Code Chapters 13.10 and 13.20 regarding public view shed protection and the definition of hedge.
On March 20, 2012 the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors passed the ordinance we have been supporting. This ordinance includes addressing legally built structures that have become nonconforming over the years due to subsequent ordinance changes.
A day after crews guided the San Lorenzo River away from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and back toward the ocean, a bulldozer continued Wednesday building up a berm on Main Beach to protect the historic amusement park.
The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted new rules intended to simplify the process of getting many home renovations through the notoriously hard-to-navigate county Planning Department.