Planning Dept staff Report to the Board of Supervisors regarding Agenda item 8532 Continued public hearing to consider resolution amending the General Plan/Local Coastal Program Public Safety Element and Safety Code Amendments. Planning Department staff failed to adequately justify the reason for including the “one time” limitation on major redevelopment/replacement to structures in coastal hazard zones.
See agenda item #14, 1:30 p.m.,
Continued public hearing to consider resolution amending the General Plan/LocalCoastal Program Public Safety Element and Conservation and Open SpaceElement and certifying CEQA Negative Declaration determination and to consider four Ordinances to amend Santa Cruz County Code Chapters 16.10 GeologicHazards, 16.20 Grading Regulations, and 16.22 Erosion Control, and adopt newChapter 16.13 Floodplain Regulations, as outlined in the memorandum of thePlanning Director (deferred from January 28 to March 10, 2020)
b Ordinance Chapter 16.10 Geologic Hazards
c Chapter 16.10 edits (strikeout-underline copy)
i Public Safety Element edits (strikeout-underline copy)
q Public Safety Element Section 6.4 changes since 12-10-2019 (strikeout-underline copy)
r Chapter 16.10 changes since 12-10-19 (strikeout-underline)
The County Planning Department will host a Public Informational Meeting on the latest proposed LCP and Code Amendments to address Sea Level Rise on Monday, March 2nd at 7 p.m. at Live Oak Elementary School. (see official meeting announcement)
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.
The California Coastal Commission centered the bulk of its regulatory focus on Pleasure Point during its first meeting of 2019.
PLEASURE POINT – Now the man who made it possible for so many to enjoy the sea is going to armor himself against it.
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.
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 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.
“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.)