Feb 22, 2020 | Meetings, Pajaro Dunes, Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz County: Capitola / Depot Hill, Santa Cruz County: Opal Cliffs, Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz County: Rio del Mar / Aptos
County Planning Department will hold a Public Informational Meeting on Monday March 2, 2020 at 7 p.m. at Live Oak Elementary School – Multipurpose Auditorium to discuss the latest proposed 6.4 Safety Element Amendments – Local Coastal Plan (LCP) for Coastal Bluffs and Beaches, and 16.10 Safety Hazard Code Amendments to the building codes for Santa Cruz County. CPOA-SC wants to urge you to attend this meeting on March 2nd to reiterate your concerns as Coastal Property Owners.
Feb 8, 2019 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
The California Coastal Commission centered the bulk of its regulatory focus on Pleasure Point during its first meeting of 2019.
Oct 14, 2011 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
PLEASURE POINT – Now the man who made it possible for so many to enjoy the sea is going to armor himself against it.
Jul 12, 2011 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
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.
Jun 14, 2011 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / 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.
Jun 11, 2011 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
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.
Aug 12, 2010 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
“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.)
Aug 5, 2010 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
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.
Aug 26, 2009 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
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.
Mar 26, 2009 | Santa Cruz County: Pleasure Point / East Cliff Drive
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.
