Coastal Commission To Expand Park At Rockview
The California Coastal Commission centered the bulk of its regulatory focus on Pleasure Point during its first meeting of 2019.
A Surf Legend’s Home, Threatened By The Sea: Jack O’Neill Set To Armor Bluff
PLEASURE POINT – Now the man who made it possible for so many to enjoy the sea is going to armor himself against it.
Santa Cruz County Settles Pleasure Point Contract Dispute For $800,000
PLEASURE POINT – The county has agreed to pay an extra $800,000 to an Antioch-based contractor who won a $7.3 million contract to armor Santa Cruz’s East Cliff bluffs against erosion, settling a million-dollar dispute over the cost of the work.
Mini-controversy Around Planned Improvements For East Cliff Drive
Some argue that county-planned improvements are overkill and threaten to remake the area as a Mid-County version of Santa Cruz’s more upscale West Cliff Drive.
Some Residents In Santa Cruz’s Pleasure Point Fear Becoming West Cliff
Some locals wonder if the good intentions are misplaced, if replacing this half-mile stretch of rugged, ragged blufftop road means Pleasure Point loses some of its grit, and with it, some of its spirit.
Surf Pioneer O’Neill Wins OK To Build Seawall
“Jack’s house is the most famous house in surfing,” said Mark Massara, a local surfer and environmentalist who has lobbied for a seawall on O’Neill’s behalf.” (Massara is also the Sierra Club California Coastal Program Director.)
Surf Legend Jack O’Neill’s Home Threatened By Surf: Founder Of O’Neill Sports Em
Surfrider Foundation regional manager Sarah Damrom, whose organization fought unsuccessfully to stop the county seawall, reluctantly said she would not oppose O’Neill’s plans. “We don’t support armoring the coast there. However fighting things piecemeal doesn’t seem like it’s going to solve the problem,” she said.
Chuck Wells Knows He Is Being Watched.
Wells is the project superintendent of the $6.2 million Pleasure Point seawall project, now taking form between Pleasure Point and 36th Avenue. After he arrived in Santa Cruz from Discovery Bay in April, it didn’t take Wells long to realize how important and delicate this project is to the surf community.
Taking On Mother Nature: Work Set To Start On Long-awaited, Long-debated Pleasur
PLEASURE POINT — Construction of what will be the largest seawall in Santa Cruz County will begin next month, setting in motion nearly a year of major engineering work, heavy-machinery use and road closures along a popular stretch of East Cliff Drive.
Coastal Commission Approves Vast Seawall Along East Cliff Drive
For decades, the ocean has slowly devoured East Cliff Drive along the Pleasure Point neighborhood. At times, the world-renowned surfing waves merely nibble at the crumbling bluffs beneath the road and the popular pedestrian corridor. At other times, storm swell takes ravenous bites out of the Purisima sandstone, and chunks of pavement suddenly collapse.