tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25746877967678165392024-03-06T19:37:58.647-08:00California Coastal ViewsDiffering points of view are essential to the development of the California Coastal Trail. This blog will provide an easy means through which those who love the coast can share their work with others, and have an impact on coastal public policy issues.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-22018716251924346152016-06-12T18:26:00.003-07:002016-06-12T18:26:47.402-07:00Save Our Coast, June 12th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2hq_gWCfx3s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-77606467162587875442016-03-24T14:05:00.001-07:002016-04-07T00:32:38.840-07:00Free Our Beaches by Efren Carillo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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slogan in Sonoma County for well over 25 years. State Parks launched an
effort to charge for parking at our iconic beaches in the late 1980s, resulting
in litigation and public protests throughout the early 90s. Subsequently,
economic conditions changed for the state budget and the plan to charge for
parking was dropped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2012, the California state
legislature mandated that State Parks begin to search for ways to pay for its
operations and wean itself off of the general fund - which in the past had
funded up to 90% of State Parks operations and has been slashed over
time. This led to a renewed effort by State Parks to charge for parking
at Sonoma County's beaches - and at other North Coast beach parking lots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beach parking lots at the local government level, and their appeal of their
proposal will be heard before the California Coastal Commission on April 13th
in Santa Rosa. At this writing, the time has not been set, but it is expected
to be heard in the afternoon at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let's be clear about one thing.
The people's right of access to their coastline is protected by our State
Constitution (Constitution) and by the Coastal Act (Act) and the California
Coastal Commission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Both
the Constitution and the Act contain provisions which require that our citizens
enjoy "maximum public access" to the coastline. Further, the
Constitution mandates that the legislature give the most liberal construction
to this provision of the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a rural area like Sonoma County -
where our wild and beautiful coastline has been mostly preserved in its natural
state and our population centered over 25 miles from our beaches - in order for
most people to get to the beach, travel by car is a necessity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Free our Beaches" doesn't
entirely describe the dilemma that State Parks faces - having to maintain
access to the coastline at a cost which the Governor and Legislature has
declined to support with general fund dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, the Constitutional and Act mandates for maximum access
stand with clarity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For Sonoma County, it comes down to
defending the constitutionally protected rights of citizens to get to the
beach. This is a fight for our right to access the beach at Bodega Head
(an irreplaceable Sonoma County icon), the Kortum trail at Shell Beach, the
incredible beaches at Goat Rock, which are over 2 miles west and a steep route
from Highway One, and Stump Beach, the only free parking access along our North
Coast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These locations offer little to the
public but parking lots and access to amazing coastal areas. Some have
bathrooms, but none offer services or permanent staffing. Allowing State
Parks to charge for parking in these locations opens up the potential for
similar parking lot charges up and down our State. A similar proposal was
denied by the city of Fort Bragg, and State Parks did not appeal the
decision. They will make their stand here in Sonoma County, and have
publicly stated the urgency of this case so that they can begin to charge
elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fee collection along the rural coast is
not unheard of. State Parks currently charges for access at 7 sites along
our coast, (Bodega Dunes, Wrights Beach, Reef, Fort Ross, Gerstle Cove,
Woodside, and Fisk Mill) and Sonoma County Re<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>gional Parks
charges at Doran and Gualala Point. The stark difference in the situation
is that these are staffed parks with camping, programming and other
amenities. This is quite different than charging to park at a parking lot
access point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The County and the Wildlands
Conservancy have both offered to manage parking areas along the coast for State
Parks to reduce their costs and overhead. Our offers have been ignored or
rejected, and this appeal has marched on toward the April hearing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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This is personal for me. When I
was five, our family of four moved to Sonoma County, where we lived in a one
room apartment in Roseland. Our family struggled to make ends meet, and
had to make hard choices every day. It is very unlikely that my parents
could have found room in their budget for regular trips to the beach if parking
lots charged a fee equivalent to what my dad made for an hour's work. It
was hard enough to pay for gas to get there.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were lucky. We enjoyed access
to the coastline, the Russian River, redwoods and other natural wonders of
Sonoma County. I developed a love of nature that led me to pursue an
environmental science degree and to now be in a position to form public policy
and help protect open space in Sonoma County.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Children today deserve the same access
to wonder and nature - no matter their family's income level. It is their
right, and the right of all citizens, no matter their economic status. We
need to preserve access for our citizens and for our future – or risk raising
future generations who are disconnected from nature and lack the necessary
passion for the continued preservation of our coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearing on April 13th. Bring your family, bring your friends. Speak
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Greetings!<br />
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The Coastal Commission Staff just sent to the Sonoma Stakeholders Group the latest proposal from the California Department of Parks and Recreation to install automated pay machines along the coast of Sonoma County. The Proposal is to heard and decided by the California Coastal Commission during their upcoming meeting from April 13-15th in Sonoma County. The Coastal Commission staff has eight more days to prepare their staff report before its own legal deadline to publish the report for the public to view on its website. The staff has asked that comments on this latest proposal be sent by email to <a href="mailto:Nancy.Cave@coastal.ca.gov">Nancy Cave</a>. To download a full copy (113 pages) of the proposal, click on <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oTfCP8I3aSQUZneUFUYlZPaTQ/view?usp=sharing">Sonoma Coast Parking Fees</a>.<br />
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Gregory Fearon<br />
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Greetings!<br />
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This is what I intend to say at the Open House this Wednesday evening (2/17, 6:30-8:30) at the Sebastopol Cultural Center (490 Morris), when California State Parks listens to the Sonoma public concerning a parking fee proposal now headed to the California Coastal Commission on April 12th in Santa Rosa.<br />
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As one who has worked hard to support State Parks (including
serving on the Board of directors of Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods and
co-chairing the County effort many years ago to raise park operating funds
through an increase in vehicle registration fees), and who has served several
times as President of a statewide organization dedicated to coastal access, you
won’t be surprised if I say the whole idea of charging users to access the
Sonoma coast is counterproductive and extremely divisive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I wish that we could stop it, but I think the direction of the Legislature and Coastal Commission is becoming increasingly clear. California is becoming a user-funded state, and is losing its sense of the commons. Governor Brown is directing California toward a future which rewards the rich, and punishes the poor.</div>
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But I do have hope that we in Sonoma County will come up
with new and very creative ways to mitigate the damage this will do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Sonoma County residents are dedicated to retaining our commons, and specifically of making sure
everyone can access our coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
live, breathe, and are dedicated to the full implementation of, the California
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First, let’s applaud that fact that the proposal adds costs
not now funded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opening up new
parks, building entrance stations and kiosks, improving parking lots,
maintaining facilities, and adding environmental support and protection staff,
all are not now in the local state parks budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> All of us have</span> been advocating for keeping our state coastal parks
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Secondly, I also applaud the proposed expansion of the Park
passes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I</span> believe that the full
use of existing passes, as well as the energetic roll-out of a proposed Sonoma
Coast Pass, will work toward allowing residents of Sonoma County to access the
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But then there’s the hard part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do those not eligible for passes aimed at U.S.
Citizens access the beach?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free
days might help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And given that
every parking space not subject to pay parking will be fought over, how about
reserving half of those spaces for low cost, multi-passenger cars?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about county and
city-auto stickers for residents of our lowest income census tracts, and priority in the lots without pay parking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about every student attending state subsidized preschool
programs carries home a free pass?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> E</span>very K-12 student attending a school with
federally-subsidized lunch programs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> E</span>very resident of Section 8 housing, and those on the waiting
list?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> E</span>very recipient of
Earned Income Tax Credits? Every student who receives an income-restricted
scholarship grant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The list could
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If our intention in expanding pay parking is to mirror our charging
strategies for traditional park attendance, by issuing passes to those we
believe should get a break, it’s time for us to step up and do the same for our
Sonoma Coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s distribute
passes with the same kind of creativity we bring to the rest of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about some real partnership State
Parks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s show how different we
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-22966063169950579292016-02-10T21:38:00.002-08:002016-02-10T22:17:21.538-08:00California Coastal Commission Executive Director Fired<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Greetings!<br />
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A few minutes ago, the California Coastal Commission emerged out of a closed session vote to fire its Executive Director, Charles Lester on a 7-5 vote. Voting in the affirmative were the four Commissioners appointed by Governor Brown, two Commissioners of the Assembly Speaker, Toni Atkins, and one Commissioner appointed by Senate President Pro Tem, Kevin de Leon.<br />
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In a closing comment, Dr. Lester said it was an honor to serve the Commission, said he hoped it could continue, and thanked the large crowd of his supporters present.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-57106481173893436662016-02-05T15:34:00.002-08:002016-02-08T20:16:03.755-08:00Coastal Pay Parking Plan Meeting, Feb 17th <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Greetings!<br />
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For the past year, local staff of California State Parks have been meeting with representatives of Coastwalk California, Sonoma Coast Surfrider, Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods, Sonoma County Conservation Action, and Sonoma County. Following the decision by the California Coastal Commission last year to take jurisdiction over a proposal to install automated pay parking machines at locations along the Sonoma Coast, the Commission ordered State Parks to meet with stakeholders and the public to improve the permit application. On Wednesday, Feb 17th, State Parks is inviting the public to participate in a community meeting from 6:30-8:00pm in the Sebastopol Community Center at 490 Morris Street in Sebastopol, where their latest proposed plan will be presented for comments.<br />
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First, let me say that I have appreciated and admired the work of local state parks staff in the development of their latest proposed plan. It has not been easy for them to both respond to their legislative mandate to increase revenue from park users, and to solicit and incorporate the advice of advocates of coastal access who believe that parking fees will inhibit that access. Nevertheless, the latest proposed plan being revealed demonstrates that they have listened. <br />
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I continue to advocate that the maintenance and operation of California's parks should be financed by the broader California public and the state general fund, and that the barrier presented by imposing parking fees on Sonoma's coast violates the coastal public access requirements of California's Constitution. While the latest proposed plan includes new efforts to remedy the economic hardship imposed on Sonoma's poorest residents, cuts in half the number of installations, uses staffed kiosks in three key parking areas, and promises to use the revenue to improve the services delivered by State parks on the coast, it does not go far enough to convince me that significant numbers of Californians will not barred from their coast. <br />
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Hope to see and talk with you all at the meeting.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-72305379718984072362015-12-13T16:06:00.002-08:002015-12-13T16:06:33.083-08:00Mike Frey, A True Friend of the Coast<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Greetings!<br />
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Yesterday morning, the Board of Sonoma Coast Surfriders surprised a retiring member with a presentation at the coastal town of Dillon Beach. Mike Frey, who has spent the last 25 plus years supporting and leading efforts to keep beaches and the ocean clean, and whose clear guidance has helped his colleagues chart their way through many environmental battles, was given a custom surfboard emblazoned with the Surfrider Foundation logo and a tribute to his service.<br />
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Though Mike told me he'd still be around and helping, I know his struggle with muscular dystrophy and some serious family needs will begin to dominate his time and energy. All of us hope to see him enjoying the board, and will make sure to circulate any advice he wants to offer. He has and will continue to be a true friend of the coast.<br />
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To see the photos I took, click on <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101102387751856484775/December122015">Mike Frey</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-51389228625387124712015-07-29T15:55:00.004-07:002015-07-30T14:22:22.983-07:00Marin Rebels Coastwalk 2015, July 29th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Greetings!<br />
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Just returned from first three days of the Marin Rebels Coastwalk. Great group and Coordinators who since Monday have been hiking the northern Marin coast. Monday night's dinner at Audubon Canyon's Cypress Grove Preserve on Tomales Bay with Martin Griffin, introducing their film "Rebels With a Cause" has to rank among our choice Coastwalk experiences.<br />
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Last night's stay at the Point Reyes National Seashore Hostel was also a hit, after hiking up from the Estero Trailhead.
Today, they are hiking from the Marin Headlands Visitor Center to Haypress Camp in Tennessee Valley, tomorrow to Alice Eastwood Camp, and Friday to the Alpine Lodge above Muir Woods on the south slope of Mt, Tamalpais. What a spectacular week<br />
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Here are some photos I took on Monday at <a href="https://photos.google.com/u/0/album/AF1QipOCDW1buTE7rmd7tqd1lWJQongPknqT6w7KGUaz">Cypress Grove and at Tom's Point</a> in Tomales Bay.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-90274094991711915802015-06-10T09:00:00.003-07:002015-06-10T09:17:21.792-07:00Park Pay Machines Research, June 10th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Preparing for meetings currently being organized by State Parks, with the encouragement of the California Coastal Commission, I decided to do some investigation.<br />
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In the appeal materials submitted by State Parks to the Coastal Commission for the April 15th public hearing, the following information was provided:<br />
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"In the short time since CSP filed its original application, the available technology now employed has rapidly evolved and improved. Whereas the traditional fee collection stations were limited to a heavy metal cylinder planted in the ground, CSP now installs electronic self-pay stations or Automated Pay Parking Machines (APPM) at many of its busier parks, even in remote areas with limited infrastructure. APPMs are solar powered units which have Wi-Fi connectivity to allow for the purchase of day use access through the use of cash, debit, credit, and Pay Pass options. They are fully programmable, and can be modified to meet daily needs, allow for retrieval of data, and thus have the potential to provide for a more flexible and efficient rate schedule. Users can add time using their smart phones in locations where cell phone service is available, and CSP can alternate rate schedules to ensure maximum access is promoted.</div>
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With the use of APPMs CSP can offer a rate structure that can be set to accept both flat rate and hourly options from the visitor. The use of the machines and a flexible and reasonable rate structure effectively manages high demand parking areas by increasing turn-over allowing for an increase in access for all visitors to these unique coastal areas.</div>
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CSP will provide a 15 minute “surf-check” or sunset window for free at all times. It should also be noted, if patrons pay for a flat all-day pass, it will be good for all day use areas within the Sonoma-Mendocino Coast District for that calendar day."</div>
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There are two state parks in our area where State Parks has placed APMs of the kind described above. They are at Olompali State Park and China Camp State Park. It appears that one is solar-powered, and the remainder are powered by underground cable. </div>
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They are produced by a Petaluma company (<a href="http://www.ventek-intl.com/">Ventek International</a>), whose representative I met yesterday. Raymond Lucas, Director of Client Services, indicated that his machines could also transmit credit card transactions via satellite phones in areas where little cell phone capacity exists. Issuing permits for a variety of park services beyond parking, one in China Camp allowed for charges for trail use, camping, and equestrian access.</div>
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Last week, a group of staff and board members from Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods traveled to Calaveras Big Trees State Park to meet with their counterparts. We have ambitions of remodeling the Jenner Visitors Center, and building a new facility at Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve. With one-fifth of our million park users, their new Visitors Center generates five times our current gross revenue. Their capital campaign dwarfed even our most optimistic goals.<br />
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I was very impressed by the quality of the sharing and organizational connections. Key personnel, with decades of experience supporting educational and resource protection programs in a park containing a huge concentration of California's largest and oldest trees, talked all afternoon and evening about what lessons they had learned. The combined personnel are responsible for almost three thousand trees which were alive when Sir Francis Drake arrived on California's coast. The combined height of these trees in these two parks would reach four times beyond the orbit of GPS satellites, and they'd weigh more than all the whales in the world. <br />
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But volume is not the value of these giants. The experience of walking among them gives us an incomparably important environmental perspective, and brings to our understanding our impact on the world. One example is a six foot high stump near the entrance to the North Grove at Big Trees, upon which was once constructed as a dance floor. It has been postulated that had it not been cut down early in the last century, that it would have grown to become the tallest tree in the world. Walking along the length of its supine trunk, and in the caverns of its fallen body, few cathedrals which man has built can compare to its reverence.<br />
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Our group gained valuable perspectives from the extended conversations that day. In these times of state budget cuts and the feared abandonment of California's natural and cultural resources, it is crucial that those working to reverse the tide communicate well together. We will continue our discussions long after our return to Sonoma County, and our actions on behalf of the resources under our care will be improved as a result of the interactions. Our thanks to the Calaveras Big Trees Association Board and Staff for opening their hearts and home to us. They are welcome in ours anytime.<br />
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Today, the work of Stewards continued with our participation in Guerneville's Annual Stumptown Days Parade. Board, staff, community members and their children marched beside our new StewardShip, puppets and drums in hand, and passed out flyers describing our upcoming programs and events. As I waited at the front of the parade line watching our own Mother Nature, Elizabeth Vega, rehearse the volunteer children in their drumming routines, I wondered about how many dance floors in San Francisco were born from trees that once surrounded this town.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-71461517764370729852015-04-17T12:31:00.004-07:002015-04-17T12:34:38.070-07:00April 17th, Sonoma Coast Parking Research Web Forum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now that the California Coastal Commission has taken control of the proposal by the State Parks Department to install Automated Parking Pay Machines at 15 parking lot locations along the Sonoma County coast, I think that it is important that we all start an online group of discussions about all of the ideas.<br />
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Here is a <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/sonoma-coast-parking-research">Google Web Forum</a> I have established for us to do so:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-90687917664826922042015-04-04T14:05:00.002-07:002015-04-04T14:06:40.085-07:00Locations of Proposed Coastal Pay Parking<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At a meeting on April 15th in San Rafael, the California Coastal Commission will be told by the California State Parks (CSP) that new technology, active monitoring, and site mitigation will increase access to the Sonoma coast and improve protection of its resources. Item 17A on the <a href="http://www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html">Agenda</a> for Wednesday, April 15th, states:<br />
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<span style=" box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-indent: -18px;">Appeal No. A-2-SON-13-0219 (California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sonoma Co.)</span><br />
<span style=" color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial; text-indent: -18px;">Appeal by California Dept. of Parks and Recreation of Sonoma County decision denying coastal permit for installation of signs and self-pay fee collection devices ('iron rangers') for charging new fees for parking at 14 locations across 35 miles of Sonoma County coast (at Stump Beach in Salt Point State Park, Russian Gulch, Goat Rock - Blind Beach, Goat Rock - South Lot, Goat Rock - North Lot, Goat Rock - Arched Rock, Shell Beach, Portuguese Beach, Schoolhouse Beach, Salmon Creek - North Lot, Salmon Creek - South Lot (Bean Avenue), Campbell Cove, Bodega Head - Upper Lot, and Bodega Head - Lower Lot), Sonoma County. (EL-SF).</span><br />
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"CSP will demonstrate pay station installation will not result in damage to coastal resources, and will actually enhance public access to the coastline within Sonoma County, consistent with both the Coastal Act and the LCP. CSP will also demonstrate that the proposal retains affordable, low cost recreation, as well as free recreation, and that there is no public safety or environmental impacts associated with the proposal that are not present now, or cannot be reconciled with active management and monitoring as proposed. "<span style=" color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-indent: -18px;"> </span><br />
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"In the short time since CSP filed its original application, the available technology now employed has rapidly evolved and improved. Whereas the traditional fee collection stations were limited to a heavy metal cylinder planted in the ground, CSP now installs electronic self-pay stations or Automated Pay Parking Machines (APPM) at many of its busier parks, even in remote areas with limited infrastructure. APPMs are solar powered units which have Wi-Fi connectivity to allow for the purchase of day use access through the use of cash, debit, credit, and <i>Pay Pass </i>options. They are fully programmable, and can be modified to meet daily needs, allow for retrieval of data, and thus have the potential to provide for a more flexible and efficient rate schedule. Users can add time using their smart phones in locations where cell phone service is available, and CSP can alternate rate schedules to ensure maximum access is promoted."</div>
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The appeal of Sonoma County's denial of CSP's original proposal now hinges on CSP convincing the Commission that "substantial issues" exist in the appeal which require that they hear it. The support of three of the twelve Commission members are necessary to force a vote of the Commission on whether to have a hearing on the appeal. Unless a majority of the Commission present finds that the appeal raises no substantial issue, the Commission moves to the de novo stage of the appeal hearing. If the Commission finds that the appeal does not raise a substantial issue, then the local government's action is final, and there is no de novo phase of the appeal hearing. </div>
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The de novo stage of the appeal hearing may occur at the same Commission meeting. Anyone may testify on the merits of the merits of the proposal during the de novo phase. People wishing to testify on this matter may appear at the hearing, or may present their concerns by letter to the Commission on or before the hearing date.</div>
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Mark the agenda number of your item, the application number, your name and your position of support or opposition to the project on the upper right hand corner of the first page of your submission. If you do not know the agenda number, contact <b>Ethan Lavine</b>, Coastal Program Analyst, at the North Central Coast District Office, 45 Fremont Street, Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94105-2219.</div>
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If you wish, you may obtain a current list of Commissioners’ names and addresses from any of the Commission’s offices and mail the materials directly to the Commissioners. If you wish to submit materials directly to Commissioners, we request that you mail the materials so that the Commissioners receive the materials no later than Thursday of the week before the Commission meeting. Please mail the same materials to all Commissioners, alternates for Commissioners, and the three non-voting members on the Commission with a copy to <b>Ethan Lavine</b>, Coastal Program Analyst, at the North Central Coast District Office, 45 Fremont Street, Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94105-2219.</div>
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Very nice gathering at Bodega Head last night to toast <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101102387751856484775/albums/6096444979900444161">Bill Kortum</a>, a real Coastal Hero. Special thanks to Paul Judge for taking the photos.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-10618522018795739922014-06-21T16:33:00.002-07:002014-06-21T17:00:47.610-07:00Charging for Coastal Services<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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As I delivered a solar power generator to Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods yesterday, to be used to bring electrical power to mountain meadows and campgrounds, I had a strange idea on how we might look at another policy decisions affecting the coast.<br />
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One of the most controversial issues facing the North Coast is the request from California's Parks and Recreation Department to install fee collection devices in parking areas along the coast to charge for automobile parking. The fees are necessary because the state general funds are being cut back by the Legislature, and parks are being required to raise funds locally to pay for operational costs.<br />
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Maintenance of restrooms in parking lots generates the bulk of the costs for which the parking fees are being introduced. Elsewhere in the state, access to the coast is being maximized by installing controllable electronic fees collection devices which encourage turnover and minimize all-day parking. Installation of these devices on the North Coast is made more difficult because few have electricity onsite.<br />
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What if we install solar power generators on top of the restrooms, and charge to use the restrooms? My wife says the downside of this is that visitors might try to find somewhere else to relieve themselves. One of the current arguments against charging to park is that visitors will find somewhere else to park. So the question in my mind is: which is the greater harm?<br />
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And we create a mobile phone app which knows you bought a state parks annual pass. Aim it at the restroom door, and it unlocks. No onsite collection of fees. A real incentive for buying a parks pass. If we standardize the state, regional, and local pass privileges, all parks benefit. And we can collect lots of good info on who is visiting our parks, and can let them now about all of our park activities in a timely manner.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-27308572582556980772014-04-26T14:53:00.000-07:002014-04-26T15:12:57.358-07:00Coastal Protection at Torrey Pines in 1929<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the first battles to save the California coast from the pressures of a development occurred in 1929 when local commercial interests urged building a high-speed highway through Torrey Pines City Park. The proposed road was designed to bypass a narrow, winding grade which created a bottleneck on the major thoroughfare between San Diego and Los Angeles. One scheme called for blasting away 1,700 feet of sea cliff for a straight, more gradual right-of-way from the beach to the mesa top. Debris from the cutting in the new alignment was to be dumped onto the public beach. One scenic canyon was to be crossed on an embankment of fill, and another spanned by a bridge. <br />
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Opposition to this proposal was led by The League to Save Torrey Pines Park. Its members felt the best solution was to build a new road to the east via Sorrento Valley, skirting Torrey Pines altogether. In a brochure that addressed numerous reasons for preventing the road, the League answered its own rhetorical question, "Is the danger to the Park very pressing?" with the following blast: "So pressing that only an immediate and emphatic expression of public disapprobation can save the heritage of the people from a defilement which will bring upon its perpetrators the condemnation of generations yet unborn." A compromise was reached in 1930, and a grade (old Highway 101, now North Torrey Pines Road) was cut through the upland instead of along the cliffs. The region's modern freeway (Interstate 5) was eventually built east of Torrey Pines, following the route favored by the League 40 years earlier.<br />
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Follow the current efforts to protect the coast and continued access to it at the following websites:<br />
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<a href="http://www.actcoastal.org/">Act Coastal</a><br />
<a href="http://coastwalk.org/">Coastwalk California</a><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=california+coastal+commission&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">California Coastal Commission</a><br />
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=california+coastal+conservancy&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">California Coastal Conservancy</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-78202187745795403202014-02-18T10:19:00.000-08:002014-02-18T10:19:06.564-08:00Coastwalk's New Webpages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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<a href="http://coastwalk.org/">Coastwalk California</a> has changed it's webpages, and the look is great. Registration is now open for the 2014 Coastwalk season, and the re-design makes it even easier to sign up. Improved mapping to the California Coastal Trail is coming, and be sure to keep an eye out for their assistance to your advocation for protecting access to the California coast.<br />
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Kudos to its young staffers, Hannah Faire Scott and Stephanie Picard-Colomb.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-73111163009647811032013-12-30T14:41:00.003-08:002013-12-30T14:45:20.976-08:00Accomplishments of the California Coastal Conservancy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2008 the State Coastal Conservancy supported 147
projects along California’s coast and around San Francisco Bay with awards
totaling more than $102 million. The Conservancy’s support for these projects
is leveraging more than $178 million from the federal and local governments and
private organizations. The funds are being used to protect natural lands,
improve wildlife habitat, support local economies, and help people enjoy the
coast and the Bay Area. The majority of the Conservancy’s funding came from
resources bond acts approved by the State’s voters in 2000, 2002, and 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To accomplish its goals the Conservancy relies on
partnerships with local communities and more than 100 nonprofit organizations
based in all parts of the coast and around San Francisco Bay. This network
ensures that local residents inform the Conservancy about coastal needs and
opportunities and are actively involved in the Conservancy’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Public Access along the length of the coast, the
Conservancy:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $600,000 to Coastwalk to sign and map existing
and new segments of the California Coastal Trail and to provide information
about the trail to the public. The trail’s emblem will be placed on 300 miles
of the trail and maps will be posted on Coastwalk’s website. The maps will
assist in the planning for new trail segments. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Stewardship of Coastal Waters, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $600,000 to Trout Unlimited to prepare a
feasibility study of water conservation recommendations for between five and
eight key watersheds along California’s coast. Part of the study is being
directed toward the design of agricultural water-storage facilities that would
help maintain year-round instream flows for the benefit of salmon, steelhead
trout, and other wildlife. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $275,000 to the Department of Fish and Game for
planning and permitting necessary for restoration of State Ecological Reserves
at the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles and Buena Vista and San Elijo lagoons in
northern San Diego County. The three reserves offer significant opportunities
for improving some of the most important remaining wildlife habitats on the
South Coast. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $50,000 to Environment Now to continue its
management of the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project’s Local
Assistance Program. The Program supports local organizations engaged in
wetlands protection and restoration through technical assistance, regional
coordination, and public outreach. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $680,000 to the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy for
planning and permitting necessary for restoration of San Elijo Lagoon in
Encinitas. The work will lead to improvements in the lagoon’s water circulation
and wildlife habitat and provisions for long-term maintenance and management.
Although severely degraded, the lagoon is a valuable component of the network
of habitats for birds and fish along the South Coast. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• approved use of $600,000 for planning and permitting
necessary for restoration of Buena Vista Lagoon State Ecological Reserve in
Carlsbad and Oceanside. Urban development around the lagoon has constricted its
habitat, and flows of sediments that settle in the lagoon threaten its
continued existence. The lagoon supports a wide diversity of wildlife and is a
prized amenity to the community. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $297,000 to the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon
Foundation to continue periodic openings of the lagoon mouth at Los Peñasquitos
Lagoon, adjacent to Torrey Pines State Reserve in the City of San Diego. The
lagoon openings—funded by the Conservancy since 1985—are necessary to maintain
water quality in the lagoon, which is home to several endangered and threatened
species of wildlife. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $425,000 to the Southwest Wetlands Interpretive
Association to study how sediments are transported in the coastal nearshore at
the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. The study will assist in
the review of current policies regarding sediment discharge and deposition in
California and may well lead to lower costs for restoration projects and better
use of sediments for beach nourishment and other purposes. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $380,000 to the City of San Diego for final
designs, permit applications, and environmental review for improvements to
Sunset Cliffs Natural Park on the western edge of Point Loma. The proposed
improvements include trail construction and repair, restoration of native plant
communities, and control of water runoff that is severely eroding bluff
terraces. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $238,000 to San Diego EarthWorks to complete a
detailed assessment of the Rose Creek watershed in the City of San Diego and to
develop alternatives for the watershed’s restoration. The watershed serves as a
wildlife corridor between Poway and Mission Bay and is a major contributor of
pollutants to the Bay. The grant follows $150,000 contributed by the
Conservancy for the project in 2005. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $150,000 to the San Diego River Conservancy to
prepare plans for a system of public trails in tributary canyons of the lower
San Diego River in the City of San Diego. The new trails will replace
hazardous, erosion-prone footpaths and provide upland communities with safe
hiking and bicycle access to river amenities, including a community park being
planned for the Qualcomm Stadium area. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $76,000 to the San Diego State University
Foundation to develop a plan for data collection and restoration in the San
Diego River watershed. The goals of the plan are to identify causes of poor
water quality, flooding, and habitat degradation and to engage individuals and
organizations in the watershed’s restoration. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $22,000 to the Endangered Habitats Conservancy
for planning and permitting necessary for the restoration of native plant
communities in Swan Canyon in the City of San Diego’s City Heights
neighborhood. As part of a larger goal of integrating the canyon into the life
of the neighborhood, the project aims to replace invasive vegetation,
particularly giant reed, with plants that are native to the area. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $1 million to Crystal Cove Alliance to improve
public access and recreational opportunities at the Crystal Cove Historic
District of Crystal Cove State Park. Slated improvements include refurbishment
of four cottages for an Educational Commons and two cottages for overnight
rental, conversion of one cottage to a house museum and lifeguard station,
addition of pathways, and restoration of Los Trancos Creek. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $854,000 to the City of Laguna Beach for its
acquisition of two properties totaling 15 acres for addition to Laguna Coast
Wilderness Park. The purchases are the latest in a series of Conservancy-funded
park additions since 2002 that have protected almost 250 acres of scenic
wildlife habitat and added to the park’s extensive network of trails. (April
and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $120,000 to the Laguna Canyon Foundation for
costs associated with future acquisitions of properties near Laguna Coast
Wilderness Park and Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park and for restoration
of existing trails on recently acquired parkland properties in Laguna Beach.
The parks are part of the 20,000-acre South Coast Wilderness Park system, a
greenbelt surrounding the highly urban landscape between Newport Beach and Dana
Point. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $5.5 million to the City of Rancho Palos Verdes
for its purchase of 219 acres of undeveloped land for addition to the Palos
Verdes Nature Preserve. The purchase will protect wildlife habitat, provide
trail connections and habitat links to existing portions of the Preserve, and
further the City’s Natural Communities Conservation Plan. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $1 million to the City of Los Angeles for a
pilot program to manage stormwater in residential areas within the Ballona
Creek watershed. The goal of the program is to reduce the amount of stormwater
runoff from residences and improve the quality of water flowing to Santa Monica
Bay. The Conservancy also awarded $600,000 to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration
Foundation to prepare a historical ecological study of the watershed, identify
locations and volumes of water flows, and complete plans for the Ballona
Greenway. The studies and plan will help guide ongoing work to improve the
watershed’s natural and recreational resources and water quality. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $675,000 to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration
Foundation to collect and review physical, chemical, and biological data and
collect native seeds as part of the ongoing planning effort for restoration of
the Ballona Wetlands south of Marina del Rey. The Conservancy also awarded
$175,000 to the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority to complete
final design and permit applications for access improvements that will open the
perimeter of the wetlands to the general public. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles to retrofit
one block of Riverdale Avenue, a residential street abutting the Los Angels
River, with demonstration planters that will capture and infiltrate stormwater
and urban runoff. The planters will help prevent polluted water from entering
the river, contribute to groundwater recharge, improve neighborhood amenities,
and serve as a model for infiltration technology standards being developed by
the City. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $322,000 to Community Conservancy International
for Phase II of the Green Solution Project. The goal of the project is to
develop a network of parks and natural lands in which soil and plants capture
and filter stormwater to reduce pollution entering Santa Monica Bay. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $268,000 to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land
Conservancy to restore wildlife habitat on the bluffs at Point Vicente and in
McCarrell’s Canyon. Both projects will include the replacement of invasive
plants with native vegetation to benefit wildlife and reduce soil erosion.
(April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $200,000 to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps
to restore three acres of the El Segundo dunes and bluffs on either side of the
Youth Development Center at Dockweiler Beach. The work will restore habitat for
the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly and provide opportunities to increase
public awareness of the area’s ecology. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $250,000 to California State Parks for the
Malibu Creek Environmental Restoration Study being prepared by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. The study will evaluate alternatives for removal of Rindge
Dam, which blocks the migration of endangered southern steelhead trout to
several miles of historic spawning habitat. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $300,000 to Heal the Bay for its volunteer-based
Stream Team program to restore wildlife habitat and collect information about
water quality and biological conditions in the northern Santa Monica Bay
watershed. The restoration is primarily being done within Malibu Creek State
Park and Malibu Lagoon State Beach. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $53,000 to the Mountains Restoration Trust for
removal and control of giant reed, Arundo donax, and other invasive plants
along Malibu Creek. This will be the second phase of an effort that began in
2000 to eradicate the creek’s Arundo, which is one of the most significant
causes of habitat degradation along Southern California rivers and streams.
(January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $40,000 to Santa Monica Baykeeper to enlist the
community in the restoration of Malibu Creek and Malibu Lagoon. Outreach
efforts will inform local residents about the watershed’s environment to build
public support for the larger restoration of the lagoon, which will begin in
the summer of 2009. For hands-on participation, local volunteers—particularly
middle and high school students—will be recruited to replace exotic vegetation
with native plants along a portion of the creek. The Conservancy also
augmented, by $20,000, a previous Conservancy grant to the Resource
Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains for the first phase of the
lagoon’s restoration, which began in 2006. (April and December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $100,000 to Santa Monica Baykeeper to restore a
portion of Stone Canyon Creek on the UCLA campus. The restoration will use
student and community volunteers to replace invasive plants with native
vegetation and maintain one of the few natural areas remaining on the campus.
(April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $100,000 to California State Parks to perform
surveys and habitat assessments aimed at restoring populations of the
California red-legged frog, a threatened species, within the Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation Area. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $75,000 to Access for All to prepare site
designs and complete the planning for development of three public coastal
accessways at Latigo Shores, Carbon Beach, and Las Tunas Beach in Malibu. This
is the third Conservancy grant to AFA since 2004 to open pathways to Malibu
beaches. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $28,000 to augment a previous Conservancy grant
to the San Gabriel & Los Angeles Rivers Watershed Council for planning to
enhance wildlife habitat and build trails along Compton Creek. The Conservancy
has been working with the local community and conservation organizations since
2000 to improve habitat and public access along the creek, which flows to the
Los Angeles River. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Ventura County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $5.25 million, including $750,000 from the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, to The Nature Conservancy to purchase 228 acres for
addition to the Santa Clara River Parkway. The purpose of the parkway is to
protect farmland, manage floodwaters, and restore the natural environment along
the lower 23 miles of Southern California’s largest river. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $4.5 million to the Ventura County Watershed
Protection District to purchase the nine-acre Matilija Hot Springs property and
design two bridge improvements in preparation for removal of the obsolete
Matilija Dam. The dam’s removal will enable endangered southern steelhead trout
to reach historic spawning and rearing habitat in the upper Ventura River
watershed and allow downstream flows to carry sand for replenishment of coastal
beaches. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $1.5 million to the City of San Buenaventura
for the Surfers Point Managed Retreat Project, which will widen Surfers Point
Beach and relocate its parking lot and bicycle path. Within the last 20 years
portions of the popular beach, located at the mouth of the Ventura River, have
eroded inland by as much as 60 feet. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $96,000 to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy to
acquire and prepare a stewardship plan for the 53-acre Drapeau property on the
Ventura River. The property contains valuable wildlife habitat, and its
purchase is another step toward the protection of the river’s 15-mile corridor
between Matilija Dam and the coast. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CENTRAL COAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>length of the Central Coast, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conserv</b>ancy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $900,000 to the Resource Conservation District
of Santa Cruz County for Phase 3 of the Integrated Watershed Restoration
Program in Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Mateo counties. The IWRP, which began
in 2003 in Santa Cruz County, established a voluntary, non-regulatory approach
to watershed restoration by funding project designs and permit applications and
forming a technical advisory committee drawn from federal, State, and local
resource and permitting agencies. Phase 3 will introduce the highly successful
program to San Mateo and Monterey counties and enable its continued operation
in all three counties. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $225,000 to the University of California, Santa
Cruz, to investigate the effects of coastal contaminants and other human-caused
stressors on California sea otters and identify reasons that sea otter
populations are not expanding. Early mortality and low birth rates among otters
have been observed in recent years, and evidence suggests that causes include
infectious diseases, parasites, and toxins resulting from human-related
activities. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Santa Barbara County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• contributed $1.27 million to the Land Conservancy of San
Luis Obispo County’s purchase of 143 acres of scenic dunes along Paradise Beach
at Point Sal. The property is within an area particularly rich in native plant
species and Native American cultural sites. The Land Conservancy intends to
transfer the property to Santa Barbara County, which owns other park and conservation
properties in the area. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $538,000 to The Nature Conservancy to restore
natural habitat, eradicate invasive species, and prevent the introduction of
new invasive species on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the eight Channel Islands
off the coast. TNC began this multi-million-dollar effort in 1978 and recently
announced a rebound in the population of the island’s endangered fox, one of 12
species on the island found nowhere else on earth. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $290,000 available from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration to the Earth Island Institute for removal of
fish barriers on Carpinteria Creek in the southern Santa Ynez Mountains. The
creek’s watershed may offer the best opportunity in the region for restoring a
significant run of endangered southern steelhead trout. The funding augments
$510,000 awarded by the Conservancy in 2005. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $90,000 to Audubon California to plan for
restoration of the lower Santa Ynez River and estuary on Vandenberg Air Force
Base. The plan will identify the first phase of efforts to improve habitat for
waterfowl, shorebirds, and other wildlife, including the endangered
southwestern willow flycatcher and southern steelhead trout. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>San Luis Obispo County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $5 million to the American Land Conservancy for
its purchase of 2,400 acres known as Wild Cherry Canyon in the Irish Hills
between Avila Beach and Port San Luis. The purchase will protect a variety of
wildlife habitats, allow for a major expansion of Montana de Oro State Park,
and provide the opportunity to build a critical link in the Coastal Trail.
After the purchase, ALC will convey its interests to California State Parks in
a phased transfer. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• (1) granted $1 million to the Morro Coast Audubon
Society to acquire an eight-acre property for addition to the Sweet Springs
Nature Preserve on the south shore of Morro Bay; (2) authorized transfer to the
Audubon Society of ten contiguous undeveloped lots owned by the Conservancy in
the area; and (3) granted $100,000 to the Audubon Society to manage and restore
these properties. The actions will expand the conservation of wetlands and
protect water quality in the Morro Bay estuary. $500,000 of the Conservancy’s
funding came from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetlands
Conservation Program. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $550,000 to the Point San Luis Lighthouse
Keepers to renovate the historic Point San Luis Lightstation and to reconstruct
an accessway between the lightstation and a sandy beach. The work will
significantly enhance educational opportunities and public access to the
lightstation and surrounding area. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $250,000 to the City of Morro Bay for
construction of a pedestrian and wheelchair-accessible boardwalk and bike path
along the Morro Bay waterfront, extending from the City’s commercial district
to Morro Rock and the south end of Morro Strand State Beach. The grant follows
$500,000 awarded by the Conservancy for the project in 2004. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $100,000 to the Port San Luis Marine Institute
to prepare and install marine education displays in the Avila Beach Marine
Research and Education Center. The new displays—including shark and bat ray
tanks—will bolster the Center’s growing stature as a community-based marine
science research and education facility. The grant follows $120,000 awarded by
the Conservancy for the Center in 2005. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Monterey County</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized use of $6 million, of which half will be
contributed by California American Water, to develop final design plans and
prepare permits for the removal of San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River, and
awarded $120,000 to the Planning and Conservation League Foundation for the
project. The obsolete dam poses a significant threat to downstream lives and
property and is a barrier to the migration of steelhead trout. The Conservancy
has been working since 2000 with California American Water, which owns the dam,
and several government agencies and conservation organizations for the removal.
(June and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $500,000 to the Big Sur Land Trust for its
purchase of the 12-acre McWhorter Property for addition to the Carmel River
Parkway. The property contains portions of the river channel and forested
floodplain and offers excellent opportunities for public access and habitat
restoration. Long-term plans for the Parkway call for protection and
restoration of lands within the river’s ecosystem, development of educational
facilities, and installation of a trail network connected to neighboring public
lands. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $250,000 to the Big Sur Land Trust to prepare
plans for the Lower Carmel River Floodplain Restoration Project. Key objectives
of the project include restoring 90 acres of wildlife habitat in the river’s
historic floodplain, recharging groundwater, reducing flood flows in urban
areas, reconnecting the east and west sides of the floodplain, and improving
the quality of water entering the Carmel River Lagoon. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized acceptance of an estimated $550,000 annually
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and award of these
funds to the Elkhorn Slough Foundation to continue its work for the Elkhorn
Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. The foundation has been working
since 1982 to protect and restore Elkhorn Slough, the largest estuary of
Monterey Bay and one of the most ecologically rich environments in California.
(December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Santa Cruz County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $7,180,000 to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz
County for its purchase of four parcels totaling 486 acres along Watsonville
Slough. The purchase will protect farmland and wildlife habitat and link two
existing preserves in one of the Central Coast’s largest areas of freshwater
wetlands. After the purchase, farming will continue on upland portions of the
property and the remainder will be managed to benefit wildlife and improve
water quality. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $1.5 million to the Wildlife Conservation Board
for its purchase of the 64-acre Willow Canyon property near Aptos. The purchase
will protect habitat for the endangered Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and
several other rare and threatened species of animals and plants. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $300,000 to the County to retrofit one Eureka
Canyon Road culvert and replace another to restore fish passage in Shingle Mill
Gulch, a tributary of Corralitos Creek. The work is part of a greater effort to
retrofit several fish passage barriers in the Corralitos Creek watershed, which
flows to the Pajaro River and supports one of the most robust runs of steelhead
trout in the region. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the<b> Coastside of San Mateo County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $3 million to Peninsula Open Space Trust to
construct and operate, for three years, a three-mile blufftop segment of the
California Coastal Trail at Cowell Ranch and Purisima Farms, just south of Half
Moon Bay. The trail will be accessible to pedestrians, bicycles, and
wheelchairs and will extend southward from a small State beach to a planned
parking/staging area near Highway One. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $500,000 to the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy to build segments of the Mori Point Coastal Trail and restore
wildlife habitat on National Park Service property in the City of Pacifica. The
trail work will complete the construction, which began in 2007, of four miles
of the California Coastal Trail and connecting trails at Mori Point, including
long sections of trails that will be wheelchair accessible. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>Greater San Francisco Bay Area,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• made $4,250,000 available for Phase I of the South Bay
Salt Ponds Restoration Project, the largest tidal wetlands restoration project
on the West Coast, plus an additional $300,000 for the South San Francisco Bay
Shoreline Study. The funding will support the first major restoration of the
15,100-acre salt ponds, for which planning has been underway since 2003. The
shoreline study will identify additional opportunities for flood control,
habitat restoration, and public access in the South Bay. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded a block grant of $3 million to the Association
of Bay Area Governments for projects to extend and improve the San Francisco
Bay Trail within the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Conservancy also
approved funding for Bay Trail projects in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda,
Contra Costa, and Solano counties—information about these projects is provided
under the county listings below. Since 1998 the Conservancy has provided more
than $21 million for Bay Trail projects along the shoreline of San Francisco
Bay. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• continued its support for the Bay Area Ridge Trail by
approving projects to extend and improve the trail in San Mateo, Contra Costa,
Solano, Napa, Sonoma, and Marin counties. Information about these projects is
provided under the county listings below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• made more than $2 million available to continue an
aggressive effort to stem the spread of invasive Spartina, a type of
fast-growing cordgrass that presents a serious threat to native wildlife
habitat. The Conservancy has been working since 1999 to eradicate the noxious
weed, which is now considered to be under control. $250,000 of the funding is
available from the State Wildlife Conservation Board. (April and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $360,000 to Greenbelt Alliance to complete the
Upland Habitat Goals report, update the Transit to Outdoors map, conduct
workshops to improve the effectiveness of San Francisco Bay Area land
conservation and stewardship measures, and further the natural resource and recreational
goals of the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $225,000 to the San Francisco Estuary Institute
for non-native oyster eradication in San Francisco Bay. The eradication effort
began in 2006, when the fast-growing exotic oyster Crassostrea gigas was found
in both southern and northern parts of the Bay. The establishment and spread of
the oyster could seriously harm native habitats and food webs and interfere
with habitat restoration. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $165,000 to the San Francisco Estuary Institute
to study the feasibility of, and develop recommendations for, treating or
removing creosote-treated pilings and similar structures in San Francisco Bay.
The pilings are a source of environmental contaminants and can be a navigation
hazard, but they also serve as bird perches and some have historical interest.
The work is supporting the San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Project.
(April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $100,000 to the Association of Bay Area
Governments to organize and present the State of the Estuary Conference in the
fall of 2009. The biennial, three-day conference brings together scientists,
managers, interest groups, and the public to address the protection and
restoration of the Bay-Delta Estuary. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $45,000 to the Coastal Conservancy Association
to provide technical scientific services to the San Francisco Bay Subtidal
Habitat Goals Project. The project is a public and private effort to establish
a long-term management vision for the protection, restoration, and use of San
Francisco Bay’s underwater habitats. The funding will be used to support
members of the project’s science and restoration committees. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• augmented by $20,000 an existing contract for
environmental review of the plan for the San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail, a
proposed network of access sites enabling people in non-motorized boats to
enjoy single- and multiple-day trips in San Francisco Bay. The Conservancy also
awarded $20,000 to the Association of Bay Area Governments to prepare plans for
water trail signs. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>San Francisco,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $1 million to the California State Parks
Foundation to restore tidal wetlands and other bay shoreline habitats at
Yosemite Slough in the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. The project
aims to improve the site’s degraded fish and wildlife habitat in conjunction
with improvements to parkland adjacent to residential neighborhoods. The
funding comes from the Wildlife Conservation Board and follows more than $3
million provided by the Conservancy and WCB in 2006. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $500,000 to The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and
Transportation District to design improvements to the Golden Gate Bridge South
Visitor Plaza, which serves many of the estimated 10 million annual visitors to
the bridge. The District is working to improve the plaza’s restrooms,
pedestrian and bicycle pathways, and landscaping at the site, which marks the
convergence of three major trail systems—the California Coastal Trail, the San
Francisco Bay Trail, and the Bay Area Ridge Trail. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $204,000 to The Exploratorium to pave a 720-foot
pathway and construct a wheelchair-accessible ramp to the wave organ next to
the San Francisco Marina Yacht Harbor. Installed in 1986 at the end of the
harbor’s jetty, the wave organ is a popular acoustic sculpture that creates
sounds dependent on the site’s tides, weather, and water conditions. The access
improvements are part of an overall renovation of the organ being conducted by
The Exploratorium. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Bayside and Inland San Mateo County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $7.5 million to the Midpeninsula Regional Open
Space District for its acquisition of the 1,000+ acre Mindego Hill property
near La Honda. The property offers spectacular ocean views and opportunities
for many miles of public trails, and contains wildlife habitat that includes
streams, spring-fed lakes, and seasonal wetlands. Peninsula Open Space Trust
purchased the property in 2007. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $243,000 to the City of Brisbane to acquire five
parcels totaling more than six acres on the upper slopes of San Bruno Mountain.
The properties are home to endangered butterflies and are now part of a 74-acre
natural area being restored by the city and its partners. The Conservancy has worked
with the City to protect undeveloped lots on the mountain since 2001. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $250,000 to the San Mateo County Parks and
Recreation Foundation for design and installation of environmental education
exhibits at a new Interpretive Center at the Edgewood County Park and Natural
Preserve. The exhibits will convey information about the preserve’s geologic
and biological significance and the stewardship needed to maintain its
environmental resources. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $150,000 to Redwood City for design,
fabrication, and installation of interactive exhibits for the Redwood Shores
Community Library Interpretive Center on Belmont Slough. The exhibits will
highlight three natural habitats—mud, water, and air—of southern San Francisco
Bay. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $185,000 to the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission to prepare plans, engineering designs, and environmental documents
for the Southern Skyline Trail, a 4.7-mile segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail
within the upper Crystal Springs watershed east of Highway 35. The trail will
open the southern watershed ridge lands to the public and join with existing
trails to link parklands north and south of the watershed. The trail will be
open to hikers, bicyclists, and equestrians during daylight hours, and a
portion is expected to be wheelchair accessible. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
use $152,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to reconstruct a portion
of the San Francisco Bay Trail through the Coyote Point Recreation Area. The
1.2-mile portion of the trail will be resurfaced, realigned, and widened,
making it safer and more accessible. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Santa Clara County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $4.3 million to the Santa Clara County Open
Space Authority for its purchase of 868 acres of the Blair Ranch near Morgan
Hill for addition to the Rancho Cañada del Oro Open Space Preserve. The
acquisition is an important step in protecting the natural character of the
County’s southwestern foothills, one of the most rapidly developing regions in
the Bay Area, and providing an extensive network of public trails. The
Authority will reimburse the Conservancy $2 million of its grant within three
years. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $150,000 to the City of San José to construct a
one-third-mile segment of the San Francisco Bay Area Ridge Trail along
Penitencia Creek in the City’s Berryessa District. The construction will
transform an informal dirt pathway into a wheelchair-accessible pedestrian and
bicycle trail that will connect to other trails and provide access to transit,
schools, and retail and residential areas. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
use $63,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to build a 2.4-mile segment
of the San Francisco Bay Trail near Moffett Field through the Alviso Pond
complex of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
National Wildlife Refuge. The construction is an interim action designed to
provide immediate public access to the area until a permanent trail is built on
a future flood-control levee. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
award $59,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to Environmental
Volunteers for construction of a segment of the San Francisco Bay Trail in the
Palo Alto Baylands. Two parallel, 370-foot pathways—for pedestrians and
bicycles—will run on either side of the historic Sea Scout Ecocenter and link
existing portions of the trail. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Alameda County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $9 million to the City of Oakland to widen the
Lake Merritt channel, create a tidal marsh along the channel’s edges, and
install facilities to remove trash and other pollutants from waters flowing to
the lake. The improvements will greatly improve the lake’s water quality,
increase the numbers and diversity of the lake’s birds and other wildlife, and
enable non-motorized boats to travel between San Francisco Bay and the lake.
The funding comes from the Wildlife Conservation Board. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $600,000 to the Tri-Valley Conservancy for its
purchase of the 74-acre Bobba property in the South Livermore Valley area. The
purchase offers excellent opportunities for new trails linking Del Valle State
Park, Sycamore Grove Regional Park, Veterans Park, and Camp Arroyo. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide the City of Oakland with $400,000 from an earlier Conservancy block
grant to construct two segments of the San Francisco Bay Trail along the
Oakland Estuary. One segment will connect Union Point Park to Dennison
Street/Coast Guard Island Bridge, passing by the Cryer Boathouse. The other
segment will connect the ends of Derby Avenue and Lancaster Street between the
Park Street and Fruitvale bridges. Each segment will be about 450 feet long and
both will be wheelchair-accessible. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide the City of San Leandro with $300,000 from an earlier Conservancy block
grant to construct a San Francisco Bay Trail crossing over San Leandro Slough
and extend a nearby section of the trail. The slough crossing—a 350-foot-long
wheelchair-accessible steel bridge—will close a critical gap in the Bay Trail,
linking sections that run along the edges of Oyster Bay Shoreline Park and the
Oakland International Airport. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Contra Costa County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $1.4 million to the East Bay Regional Park
District for its acquisition of the 333-acre Chaparral Spring property, which
borders Mt. Diablo State Park and the District’s Clayton Ranch on Marsh Creek
Road. The highly scenic property contains valuable wildlife habitat and offers
significant opportunities to expand the area’s network of hiking trails.
(September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $515,000 to the Muir Heritage Land Trust to
restore portions of Rodeo, Fern, and Slot creeks on the Fernandez Ranch near
Hercules and construct 1.4 miles of the Bay Area Ridge Trail and a
parking/staging area on the ranch. The creek work will improve wildlife habitat
and stabilize banks along 2,800 feet of stream corridors and the trail will
become part of a system of ranch trails connecting to neighboring parklands on
Franklin Ridge. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $150,000 to the City of Concord to complete a
600-foot gap in the historic California Riding and Hiking Trail by installing a
74-foot-long pedestrian bridge over Galindo Creek at Ygnacio Valley Road and
extending a nearby section of the trail. The gap is the last uncompleted
section of the trail, which runs for 20 miles between the Carquinez Strait
Regional Shoreline and Lime Ridge Open Space Preserve on the east side of
Walnut Creek. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $97,000 to the City of Richmond to construct a
465-foot-long segment of the San Francisco Bay Trail along Canal Boulevard,
connecting two existing portions of the trail that run along Canal Boulevard
and Seacliff Drive. The award follows $53,000 for planning provided by the
Conservancy in 2007. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For lands straddling <b>Contra Costa and Solano Counties,</b>
the Conservancy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $100,000 to the Delta Protection Commission to
develop the first phase of the Great California Delta Trail Plan. Envisioned is
a hiking and biking trail through the shoreline areas of Contra Costa and
Solano counties that would link the San Francisco Bay Trail to planned Sacramento
River trails. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Solano County, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• contributed $242,000 to the City of Benicia’s
construction of a new pedestrian and bicycle overcrossing at the Rose
Drive/State Park Road overpass of Interstate 780 to enable safe passage by
users of the San Francisco Bay Trail and the Bay Area Ridge Trail. The project
will provide a much-improved connection for the trails between Benicia and
Vallejo and to points north. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• contributed $150,000 to the City of Fairfield for
construction of a segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail along 1.65 miles of
McGary Road, which parallels Interstate 80 but was closed in 1998 due to a
landslide. The project will open a safe route for bicyclists and pedestrians
between Fairfield and the end point of the Solano Bikeway at the Vallejo city
limits. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide $200,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to the Greater Vallejo
Recreation District, and added $75,000 to that award for construction of San
Francisco Bay Trail and Bay Area Ridge Trail segments in Glen Cove Waterfront
Park in southern Vallejo. The new pedestrian/bicycle trails will be important
components of the planned 50-mile Carquinez Scenic Loop Trail, which will run
on both sides of the Carquinez Strait and pass over the Carquinez and
Benicia-Martinez bridges. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For lands straddling <b>Solano and Napa Counties,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $350,000 to the California Land Stewardship
Institute to restore wildlife habitat along Suisun Creek and two of its
tributaries, White and Wooden Valley Creeks, whose waters flow from
southeastern Napa County to Suisun Marsh. The 53-square-mile Suisun Creek
watershed is considered one of the most promising San Francisco Bay drainages
for restoration of steelhead trout habitat. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $55,000 to the Solano Transportation Authority
to prepare a multi-jurisdiction plan for regional trails, including portions of
the Bay Area Ridge Trail, along and across State Route 12 between Interstate 80
and State Route 29 in the Jameson Canyon area. The Authority will consult with
local park and transportation agencies, Caltrans, and private landowners about
feasible trail routes and will develop preliminary cost estimates and a funding
strategy for building the trails. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Napa County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $1.65 million to the Napa County Regional Park
and Open Space District for its acquisition of the 673-acre Moore Creek
property near Lake Hennessey. The property contains diverse plant and wildlife
habitats and offers excellent opportunities for public trails and the County’s
first new group and family camping facility in 30 years. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• contributed $1 million to the Land Trust of Napa
County’s acquisition of the 1,000-acre Duff Ranch near Calistoga. The rugged,
scenic property contains valuable wildlife habitat and links Robert Louis
Stevenson State Park to the 3,000+ acre Wildlake Ranch purchased by the Land
Trust in 2006. The Conservancy also provided $250,000 to the Land Trust to
prepare an interim plan for management of natural resources and public access
on the three properties. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $600,000 to Save-the-Redwoods League for its
acquisition of interests in the Smith-Madrone property, adjacent to Bothe-Napa
Valley State Park. The League will acquire 55 acres of the property plus a
conservation easement over 65 acres. The purchase will protect forested
wildlife habitat and the headwaters of Ritchie Creek, prevent the conversion of
farmland to residential development, and provide an opportunity for new trails
leading to the State Park. The League expects eventually to transfer its fee
interests to California State Parks. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $485,000 to the University of California for
its acquisition of 157 acres for inclusion in the Quail Ridge Reserve on Lake
Berryessa’s south shore. The purchase will help prevent development in the
area, which contains some of the last intact native grasslands in northern
California along with oak woodlands and chaparral. The UC Natural Reserve
System manages the reserve for habitat protection and University-sponsored
research and teaching. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $83,000 to the Napa County Resource Conservation
District to develop plans for removing barriers to fish passage at 21 sites in
the Napa River basin. The barriers block or impede the migration of chinook
salmon and steelhead trout to historic spawning and rearing habitats.
(November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $25,000 to the San Francisco Estuary Institute
to develop the Napa Historical Ecology Atlas. The atlas will synthesize
hundreds of historical data sources into information needed to plan for the
restoration, enhancement, and protection of wildlife habitats within the Napa
River watershed. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Bayside and Inland Sonoma County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• contributed $1.5 million toward the Sonoma County
Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District’s purchase of 283 acres on
the summit of Sonoma Mountain. The property contains oak woodlands, redwood
forests, grasslands, and other wildlife habitats and offers distant views of
the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Nevada. The purchase links the neighboring
Jack London State Park to hundreds of acres of other protected lands on the
mountain. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $700,000 to the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
to construct the Laguna Interpretive Center at the Laguna de Santa Rosa near
Sebastopol. The interpretive center will house educational programs about the
Laguna and serve as the centerpiece of the Laguna Learning Center site, which is
being developed as the gateway to the Laguna. The Laguna is the largest
freshwater wetlands complex and the most biologically diverse area of the
County. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $575,000 to the Sonoma County Agricultural
Preservation and Open Space District to construct 4¼ miles of the Bay Area
Ridge Trail on Sonoma Mountain westward from Jack London State Historic Park,
plus a half-mile spur trail to the Bennett Valley overlook. The trails will
greatly expand the public’s access to unique wildlife habitats and the
panoramic views available on the mountain’s north slope. The construction
follows several years of property acquisitions by the District on the mountain
and a 2005 Conservancy planning grant for the trail. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Bayside and Inland Marin County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $150,000 to the Marin Municipal Water District
to restore wildlife habitat and improve public access to a section of Lagunitas
Creek off Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the watershed of Mount Tamalpais. The
project site includes the Leo Cronin Fish Viewing Area, the Bay Area’s most
popular spot for viewing salmon during the spawning season. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $95,000 to the Marin Audubon Society to complete
the restoration of wetlands at Bahia Lagoon in Novato. The 375-acre site,
purchased in 2003, contains tidal and seasonal wetlands adjacent to oak
woodlands and other protected wildlife habitats. The Wildlife Conservation
Board will reimburse the Conservancy for its contribution, which will fill a
critical funding gap. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NORTH COAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>length of the North Coast</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span> the Conservancy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $500,000 to the Northwest California Resource
Conservation and Development Council for the design and permitting of at least
ten fish passage improvement projects and five associated water quality
improvement projects in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, and Siskiyou
counties. The projects will follow similar work that has improved habitat and
removed migratory barriers to many miles of historic spawning and rearing
habitat for coastal salmon and steelhead trout. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>Coastside of Marin County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $385,000 to the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy to reconstruct the portion of the Dias Ridge Trail lying within the
Golden Gate National Recreation Area just east of Muir Beach. The trail is a
segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail that connects Panoramic Highway to
Shoreline Highway/Hwy 1 and offers spectacular vistas of Mount Tamalpais and
the ocean. The new trail will be accessible to hikers and bicyclists, and a new
trailhead at Golden Gate Dairy will greatly improve visitor safety and
orientation. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $230,000 to the National Park Service to
construct additional visitor and staff accommodations at the Point Reyes Hostel
and to bring the hostel buildings into compliance with current health and
safety codes. The improvements will add 12 low-cost visitor beds to the current
44-bed capacity and enable the hostel, which is currently closed for part of
the day between October and May, to remain open during daylight hours
throughout the year. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $185,000 to the County to replace side-by-side
culverts where Carson Road crosses Woodacre Creek with a wider, naturalized
structure that will allow coho salmon and steelhead trout to reach 3,800 feet
of good quality spawning and rearing habitat. The new structure will handle
floodwaters better than the existing culverts and is enthusiastically supported
by the neighboring landowners in the town of Woodacre. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $109,000 to the Tomales Bay Watershed Council to
prepare a restoration plan for lower Third Valley Creek and Chicken Ranch Beach
in the town of Inverness. The plan will aim to improve water quality and
wildlife habitat and to reduce erosion at the county-owned beach. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $100,000 to the County to prepare a plan to
restore the watershed of San Geronimo Creek, a tributary of Lagunitas Creek
that contains some of the region’s best habitat for coho salmon and steelhead
trout. The plan will be directed primarily at the creek’s upper watershed,
where fish habitat is threatened by erosion and sedimentation, stormwater
runoff, invasive species, and encroaching development. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $85,000 to the Point Reyes National Seashore for
its Helping Hands Restoration Project to reduce erosion, construct livestock
fencing, and carry out associated educational programs in the Tomales Bay
watershed. The restoration aims to reduce the flow of pollution into Olema
Creek and Tomales Bay. Part of the work will be done through the Students and
Teachers Restoring a Watershed (“STRAW”) environmental education program, which
involves the participation of students from local schools. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>Coastsides of Marin and Sonoma Counties,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $639,000 to Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness
Center to undertake a feasibility study for improvement of about 100,000 acres
of endangered coastal prairie habitat. Coastal prairies support the highest
plant diversity of all North American grasslands, and less than 10% of native
coastal prairies remain between Big Sur and the Oregon coast. The study will
include restoration of 35 acres on five sites to develop recommendations for
future stewardship. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $155,000 to the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation
District to improve water quality in the Estero Americano watershed through
pasture and manure management improvements on five dairies. The improvements
follow years of outreach, planning, and initial improvements on several local
dairies and will support the economic viability of the region’s dairy industry.
(September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>Coastside of Sonoma County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $495,000 to the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation
District to restore fish passage to 3.4 miles of Dutch Bill Creek, improve the
creek’s habitat for fish and wildlife, and install an 80-foot pedestrian bridge
across the creek at Camp Meeker. Coho salmon and steelhead trout from the
Russian River will be able to reach historic nursery and rearing habitat on the
creek after removal of a dam in Camp Meeker and retrofitting of a culvert at
Market Street in Occidental. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $290,000 to the Occidental Arts and Ecology
Center to analyze water supply and demand in the Salmon Creek watershed, design
a set of water conservation strategies, implement water conservation
demonstration programs tailored for small coastal communities, and complete
design and permitting for a large woody debris habitat enhancement project in
the Salmon Creek Estuary. The project continues the Conservancy’s comprehensive
approach to planning for improvements in the watershed that began in 2003.
(April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $262,000 to the Sotoyome Resource Conservation
District to improve critical habitat for coho salmon and steelhead trout in
Austin Creek, a tributary of the Russian River. The funding will be used for
the planning and design of improvements to control sediment that washes into
the creek and degrades fish habitat, continuing the RCD’s longstanding work
with landowners to restore healthy populations of fish in the area. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $200,000 to the Sonoma County Regional Parks
Department for preliminary design and environmental documentation for a
three-mile section of the California Coastal Trail in the community of Timber
Cove between Fort Ross State Historic Park and Stillwater Cove Regional Park.
The design work will include outreach to the community to identify potential
trail alignments that address the needs and concerns of local residents.
(December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $125,000 to the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation
District to work with landowners and prepare a watershed plan to improve fish
habitat in Green Valley Creek, a tributary to the Russian River located between
Occidental and Forestville. The creek’s fish habitat has severely deteriorated
over the last several decades from sediment eroding from neighboring
properties, but it still supports salmon and steelhead populations and offers
excellent restoration opportunities. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For<b> Mendocino County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $370,000 to the Mendocino Land Trust for its
purchase and initial management of the six-acre Hare Creek Beach property just
south of Fort Bragg on Highway 1. The purchase will enable the land trust to
open and manage a public pathway to a sandy beach on a beautiful ocean cove,
add a mile to the California Coastal Trail, and manage critical fish and
wildlife habitats that are currently degraded by unregulated public use and
invasive non-native vegetation. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized Trinity County’s Five Counties Salmonid
Conservation Program to use $105,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to
remove a barrier to fish-passage in Ancestor Creek, a tributary of the Mattole
River, at Briceland Road. A new bridge will replace culverts that prevent coho
salmon and steelhead trout from reaching more than two miles of high-quality
spawning and rearing habitat. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $31,000 to the City of Fort Bragg for trail,
fencing, and signage improvements along three public access easements at Pomo
Bluffs Park above Noyo Harbor. The improvements will include a new pedestrian
and bicycle accessway to the park from Highway 1 near the south end of the Noyo
Bridge. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $24,000 to the Redwood Coast Land Conservancy to
assist with operation and maintenance of the Gualala Bluff segment of the
California Coastal Trail in Gualala. The funding will support the work of a
large number of volunteers who have been maintaining the popular trail, which
offers panoramic ocean views directly behind the town’s commercial district.
(June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $41,000 to the Coastal Land Trust to facilitate
the transfer of about 74 public access easements from the American Land
Conservancy to local nonprofit organizations and public agencies. Several
organizations are interested in obtaining specific easements, and the funding
will help the land trust manage those easements that are not accepted by other
entities. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $10,000 to the Moat Creek Managing Agency to
operate and maintain public access improvements at Moat Creek Beach and along
the Moat Creek segment of the California Coastal Trail south of Point Arena.
The sites were created as part of an early and successful Conservancy effort to
reduce the density of the Whiskey Shoals subdivision for the protection of
scenic natural and recreational lands. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• revised the Gualala Access Trails project approved by
the Conservancy in May 2005 by eliminating the planned construction of cable
steps and trail improvements to the beach at St. Orres Creek and adding
construction of a trail and one or two viewing platforms with interpretive
panels above the creek. A study of geological conditions made it apparent that
the beach trail would be unsafe, but the revised construction will still enable
visitors to reach a highly scenic beach overlook. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For<b> Humboldt County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $1,065,000 to the City of Arcata for final
designs, environmental review, and permitting for the Arcata Coastal Rail with
Trail project, which aims to build a 3.8-mile section of the California Coastal
Trail between northern Arcata and Bracut Marsh, one mile south of the City. The
proposed route of the pedestrian/bicycle trail would lie within or near the
North Coast Railroad Authority right-of-way, with its southern section running
close to Highway 101 near the shoreline of Humboldt Bay. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $900,000 to the Redwood Community Action Agency
for the first phase of the Humboldt County Coastal Trail Program, enabling the
Agency to assess the trail’s current alignment, prioritize and design potential
projects to close existing gaps, and coordinate efforts of the many agencies
and organizations working to create a continuous trail along the county’s
coastline. About 90 miles of the California Coastal Trail in the county are in
place, but an additional 64 miles need to be constructed or substantially
improved. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $975,000 to the Friends of the Dunes to
construct the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, creating a “gateway to the dunes”
on the North Spit of Humboldt Bay, and to purchase two properties totaling 53
acres in the area. The center—scheduled for completion in 2010—will include
visitor services and educational facilities and provide the public with a
convenient entry to more than 1,000 acres of protected coastal dunes along four
miles of the coast. Earlier Conservancy funding contributed to the protection
of much of this area. (April, June, and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $770,000 to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust
for its purchase of a 77-acre portion of the McNamara Dairy on Redwood Creek in
Orick. The purchase will allow the restoration of highly degraded salmon and
steelhead habitat while protecting farmland and providing for the continuance
of a viable agricultural operation. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized acceptance of $150,000 in federal grant funds
and use of $175,000, including a grant to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
for Phase I of the Humboldt Bay Regional Invasive Spartina Eradication Project.
The goal of the project is to develop a regional plan to eradicate invasive
Spartina, a cordgrass that threatens the native plant and wildlife communities
of tidal marshes in the estuaries of Humboldt Bay, the Eel River, and the Mad
River. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• accepted the Access Management Plan prepared by the
Yurok Tribe for the 12½-acre Tsurai Village Site and awarded a grant of $30,000
to the City of Trinidad to manage creek runoff and hillside drainage that
enters the site. The Tribe prepared the plan, using Conservancy funds, to help
resolve land-use conflicts and improve the site’s management. The City will use
the grant to install drainage improvements that will protect public trails and
cultural resources. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Redwood Region Audubon Society to accept
an open space easement offered by the City of Eureka ensuring the conservation
of a 15-acre property adjacent to Humboldt Bay. The offer of the easement was a
condition to the Conservancy’s funding for the City’s purchase of the adjacent
Palco Marsh in 1985. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Del Norte County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $641,000 to the County to construct almost two
miles of the California Coastal Trail along Pebble Beach Drive just north of
Crescent City. The pedestrian/bicycle trail will travel along a highly scenic
part of the coast and connect to an existing bike path within the City. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $100,000 to the Yurok Tribe to prepare a plan
for public access in and around the Klamath River estuary. The funding will
help the Tribe develop a river transit system and a trail network with interpretive
signs highlighting the natural setting, Yurok traditions, and the Tribe’s
conservation activities. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $164,000 to Smith River Alliance, working with
Tolowa Dunes Stewards, to complete surveys and permitting prior to restoration of
dune habitats in Tolowa Dunes State Park and Lake Earl Wildlife Area and to
develop a public access strategy for Tolowa Dunes, Lake Earl Wildlife Area, and
Point Saint George. The work will lead to improvements of natural areas,
protection of cultural sites, and enhanced public access between Point St.
George and the mouth of the Smith River. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For <b>Trinity County,</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Conservancy</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized Trinity County’s Five Counties Salmonid
Conservation Program to use $160,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to
retrofit two roadway culverts that are barriers to fish-passage in Conner
Creek, a tributary of the Trinity River near Junction City. The existing
culverts block passage to about 2½ miles of spawning and rearing habitat for
coho salmon and steelhead trout. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the <b>Klamath River Watershed,</b> the Conservancy:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• augmented an existing contract by $150,000 to further study
the likely water-quality and biological effects of removing dams on the Klamath
River and to summarize that and other information in a comprehensive
dam-removal plan. Earlier studies commissioned by the Conservancy indicated
that removal of four dams on the river was feasible and affordable, and
additional studies are underway to analyze the potential effects of dam removal
on downstream habitats and existing reservoirs. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">2009 Project Accomplishments<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Coastal Conservancy’s ability to provide financial
support for projects was severely curtailed in 2009 because of limitations on
use of bond funds resulting from the State’s budget crisis. Nevertheless,
during the year the Conservancy received more than $27 million in federal
appropriations for its projects together with approvals for more than $51
million of economic stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act, most of which will be put to use before the end of 2010. Funding from the
federal government and other sources enabled the Conservancy to provide new
support in 2009 for 22 projects along California’s coast and around San
Francisco Bay with awards totaling more than $30 million. The projects are
providing jobs, supporting local economies, protecting natural lands, improving
wildlife habitat, and helping people enjoy the coast and the Bay Area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The year began with a near-complete freeze on funds
originating from State bonds, which put a halt to most Conservancy projects. As
the year progressed, limited bond funds began to be released and work gradually
resumed on many projects—more than 100 by the end of the year. Bond funds for
new projects, however, remained frozen throughout 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Conservancy continues to support its existing projects
to the extent possible and is planning for new projects when State funding
again becomes available. To accomplish its goals the Conservancy relies on partnerships
with local communities and more than 100 nonprofit organizations based in all
parts of the coast and around San Francisco Bay. This network ensures that
local residents inform the Conservancy about coastal needs and opportunities
and are actively involved in the Conservancy’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">SOUTH COAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For San Diego County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $4.84 million to the Southwest Wetlands
Interpretive Association and $297,000 to the Port of San Diego for restoration
of the <b>South San Diego Bay Wetlands</b>. The goal of the project is to
restore the natural ecology of 225 acres of salt ponds at the southwest end of
the bay. Most of the bay’s wetlands habitats have been lost to development, but
what remains supports tens of thousands of resident and migratory birds and
many varieties of fish and other wildlife. Most of the Conservancy’s funding is
available from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grant and a federal economic
stimulus award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (June
and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $960,000, available from the San Diego
Association of Governments, to the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy for planning
and permitting necessary for restoration of <b>San Elijo Lagoon</b> in
Encinitas. The work will lead to improvements in the lagoon’s water circulation
and wildlife habitat and establishment of a long-term management program.
Although severely degraded, the lagoon is a valuable component of the network
of habitats for birds and fish along the South Coast. (February)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• approved use of $540,000, available from the San Diego
Association of Governments, for planning and permitting necessary for
restoration of <b>Buena Vista Lagoon State Ecological Reserve</b> in Carlsbad
and Oceanside. Urban development around the lagoon has constricted its
habitats, and flows of sediments that settle in the lagoon threaten its
continued existence. Despite these impairments, the lagoon supports a wide
diversity of wildlife and is a prized amenity to the community. The funding
supplements $600,000 the Conservancy made available for the restoration in
2008. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $195,000 of federal stimulus funds to the
Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association for its study on how sediments are
transported in the coastal nearshore at the <b>Tijuana River National Estuarine
Research Reserve</b>. The study will assist in the review of current policies
regarding sediment discharge and deposition in California and may well lead to
lower costs for restoration projects and better use of sediments for beach
nourishment and other purposes. The award augmented more than $750,000 provided
by the Conservancy for the project in 2007 and 2008. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Orange County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• granted $26,000 to Orange County Coastkeeper to maintain
the Conservancy’s public access easement at Portofino Cove in <b>Huntington
Harbour</b>. The easement allows the public to use a sidewalk that runs along
the Harbour’s main channel between Seabridge Park and a public parking lot. The
Conservancy also authorized transfer of that easement and another public access
easement, not yet open to the public, in the Harbour to Orange County
Coastkeeper, which has managed the Portofino Cove easement since 2007.
(February and June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Los Angeles County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• provided $25,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority (MRCA) for work that will lead to construction of a
public stairway leading from <b>Malibu Road</b> to Amarillo and Malibu Colony
beaches in the City of Malibu. The Conservancy further directed that ownership
of the underlying property be transferred from the Conservancy to MRCA. The
Conservancy acquired the property in 2002 and since that time has been planning
to build a stairway there. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $25,000 to Los Angeles Forum to conduct <b>public
access educational tours in Malibu</b>. Los Angeles Forum will support an
existing program of the Los Angeles Urban Rangers through which visitors are
taken on “safaris” to under-utilized beaches and taught how to identify and
reach easements that allow use by the public. The program includes printed
guides that map the location of public accessways and provide additional
information useful to beach-goers. (June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">CENTRAL COAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the length of the Central Coast, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $94,000 from the California sea otter tax
check-off fund to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the second
phase of an investigation into the effects of coastal contaminants and other
human-caused stressors on <b>California sea otters</b>. Early mortality and low
birth rates among otters have been observed in recent years, and evidence
suggests that causes include infectious diseases, parasites, and toxins
resulting from human-related activities. In this phase of the study, two
separate otter populations will be examined: one in Monterey Bay, where the
water is relatively contaminated, and the other in Big Sur, where the water is
more pristine. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Santa Cruz County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $210,000, available from the federal Coastal
Impact Assistance Program, to the nonprofit organization Save Our Shores for
its community-based <b>beach and marine debris prevention and removal program</b>.
The program benefits the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and targets the
watersheds of the Pajaro and San Lorenzo rivers and Arana Gulch. The funding
follows $100,000 that the Conservancy awarded in 2007 for the program’s
development. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• made almost $6.9 million of federal funding available
for Phase I of the <b>South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project</b>, the West
Coast’s largest tidal wetlands restoration project. The funding is supporting
work at three sites in the 15,100-acre salt ponds purchased by the State and
federal governments in 2003. The work is being done by Ducks Unlimited, the
Santa Clara Valley Water District, and Alameda County and the funding is
available from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grant and an economic stimulus
award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (June and
September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• made almost $1.9 million of federal funding available
for the aggressive effort to stem the spread of <b>invasive <i>Spartina</i></b>,
a type of fast-growing cordgrass that threatens native wildlife habitats in the
Bay. The Conservancy has been working since 1999 to eradicate the noxious weed,
which is now considered to be under control. The federal funding included a
$1.7 million award of economic stimulus funds from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration plus additional funds from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. (April and June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Alameda County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $100,000 of Caltrans mitigation funds to the
East Bay Regional Park District to study alternative strategies for restoring
sand dunes and building trails and other improvements at Albany Beach, on the
west side of Golden Gate Fields in <b>Eastshore State Park</b>. Although the
Albany Beach dunes resulted from human-placed fill, they are thought to be
similar to San Francisco Bay’s historic dunes, almost all of which have been
lost to development. As such, they may offer opportunities for the continued
survival of rare native plants that require dune habitats. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Contra Costa County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
award $150,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to the East Bay Regional
Park District for construction of a 1.1-mile segment of the <b>San Francisco
Bay Trail</b> between San Pablo and Wildcat creeks at the West County
Wastewater District facility. The new trail will enable hikers, bikers, and
wheelchair riders to reach more than a half mile of Richmond’s San Pablo Bay
shoreline at <b>Wildcat Marsh</b>. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Napa County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• made $65,000 from the San Francisco Foundation available
to monitor levels of methylmercury, a highly toxic compound of mercury that is
readily accumulated in the food web, as part of the <b>Napa River Salt Marsh
Restoration Project</b>. The restoration project aims to restore the ecology of
10,000 acres of former salt ponds along San Pablo Bay, and there is concern
that the restoration might exacerbate the exposure of fish and other wildlife
to methylmercury. The monitoring will help guide the progress of the
restoration. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NORTH COAST<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the Coastside of Sonoma County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $8 million of Conservancy funds plus a
$5.85-million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
for the Sonoma Land Trust’s $36-million purchase of the 5,630-acre <b>Jenner
Headlands</b> property on the east side of Highway 1 north of the Russian
River. The highly scenic property contains a variety of wildlife
habitats—including redwood and Douglas fir forest, oak woodland, chaparral,
meadows, and coastal prairie—and offers excellent opportunities for regional
trails. The Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District
will hold a conservation easement over the property and is working with the
land trust to develop a management plan. The award of Conservancy funds was
conditioned on their future availability from State bond sales, but the
conditional award enabled the Land Trust to obtain interim funding for the
purchase. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Mendocino County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $193,000 to the Northwest California Resource
Conservation and Development Council to remove a barrier to fish passage in <b>Ancestor
Creek</b>, a tributary of the Mattole River. A new structure spanning the creek
at Briceland Road will replace culverts that prevent coho salmon and steelhead
trout from reaching over two miles of high-quality spawning and rearing
habitat. The funding augments a 2008 award of $105,000 from the Conservancy and
replaces other State funds that became unavailable because of the State budget
crisis. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Humboldt County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">• awarded $20,000 to the North Coast Resource Center to
make it easier for the public to reach natural areas around <b>Humboldt Bay</b>
by cleaning up homeless encampments. The encampments, which are common around
the Bay, are public health and safety hazards that discourage recreational use
of natural areas by the general public. The North Coast Resource Center has
been working with the poor and homeless in the area for over 32 years and, as
part of the program, will direct homeless individuals to available services.
(June)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING AWARDED TO
STATE COASTAL CONSERVANCY IN 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">American Recovery & Reinvestment Act<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">South San Diego Wetlands Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Invasive Spartina Eradication, San Francisco Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$2,975,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$5,898,862<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$1,722,081<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)/State Water<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Resources Control Board</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tijuana Estuary Sediment Fate and Transport Study<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">South San Diego Bay Wetlands Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tomales Wetlands and Dunes Complex Protection Project,
Marin County<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Odello East Floodplain Restoration Project, Lower Carmel
River<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Middle Watsonville Slough Wetlands Protection Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Invasive Spartina Eradication, Humboldt Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Santa Cruz Marine Debris Reduction Program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$800,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$150,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$210,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOAA Community-based Habitat Restoration National &
Regional<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Partnership</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$500,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">USEPA</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines Project, Corte
Madera & Eden Landing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Invasive Spartina Eradication, San Francisco Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$300,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TOTAL FEDERAL FUNDING</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$17,708,728</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">California Department of Transportation Mitigation Funds</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Eastshore State Park<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gateway Park, Oakland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Oakland Waterfront Access<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Suisun Marsh Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$2,017,562<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$1,291,852<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$1,000,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">San Diego Association of Governments</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Buena Vista & San Elijo Lagoon Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Southeast Waterfront Access<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Napa River Salt Marsh Restoration Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bay Area Integrated Regional Water Management Plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TOTAL NON-FEDERAL FUNDING</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$6,595,414</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TOTAL ALL SOURCES</span></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$24,304,142<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 17.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">2010 Project Accomplishments<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2010 the State Coastal Conservancy supported 67
projects along California’s coast and around San Francisco Bay with awards
totaling more than <b>$28 million</b>. The Conservancy’s support for these
projects is leveraging more than <b>$60 million</b> from the federal and local
governments and private organizations. The funds are being used to protect
natural lands, improve wildlife habitat, support local economies, and help
people enjoy the coast and the Bay Area. The majority of the Conservancy’s
funding came from resources bond acts approved by the State’s voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the beginning of the year State bond funds were only
available for selected projects that had begun prior to December 2008, and so
funding for new projects was severely limited. By the beginning of May bond
funds again became available and the Conservancy began developing new projects
at a quick pace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To accomplish its goals the Conservancy relies on
partnerships with local communities and more than 100 nonprofit organizations
based in all parts of the coast and around San Francisco Bay. This network
ensures that local residents inform the Conservancy about coastal needs and
opportunities and are actively involved in the Conservancy’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Public Access along the length of the coast, the
Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved funding for projects to extend and improve the <b>California
Coastal Trail</b> in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Mendocino, and Del Norte
counties—information about these projects is provided in the county listings
that follow. The Coastal Trail will one day run the entire length of the coast,
linking the varied urban, rural, and wilderness areas that together make up
California’s world-renowned coastline. About half of the trail is now in place
and new segments are being added every year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For the length of the South Coast, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $52,000 to the Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project for the <b>Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project</b>
Science Advisory Project to support the design, construction, and monitoring of
wetlands restoration in South Coast watersheds. The funding comes from the
California Natural Resources Agency and follows $500,000 provided by the
Conservancy for the Science Advisory Project in 2006. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $317,000 to the San Dieguito River Park Joint
Powers Authority to construct and plan for trails near <b>San Dieguito Lagoon</b>.
The funding will support construction of the 1.7-mile <b>Mesa Loop Trail</b>
overlooking the lagoon and about a half mile of the <b>Coast-to-Crest Trail</b>,
together with studies of possible alignments for the Reach-the-Beach section of
the Coast-to-Crest Trail near the Del Mar Fairgrounds. The Coast-to-Crest Trail
is a multi-use trail system that will connect inland areas in north San Diego
County to the coast. The funding follows $177,000 awarded by the Conservancy
for the trail in 2005. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $300,000 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to
construct a portion of the <b>Bayside Birding and Walking Trail</b> in the San
Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Imperial Beach. The new pedestrian trail
will be parallel to the existing Bayshore Bikeway and include a wildlife
overlook and a 50-foot bridge across a drainage channel. The trail will be
built to protect sensitive wetlands habitats and resolve conflicts between
bicycle and pedestrian uses of the Bayshore Bikeway. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $250,000 to the Ocean Discovery Institute for
final design, engineering, and pre-construction planning for the <b>Living Lab
environmental education center</b> in the City Heights neighborhood in the City
of San Diego. The Living Lab will be the headquarters for Ocean Discovery’s
environmental stewardship programs, which use San Diego’s natural environments
as a means to engage young people from underserved communities and inspire them
to become part of the next generation of scientific and environmental leaders.
(August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized use of $220,000 for planning, permitting, and
associated studies for the <b>San Diego River Tributary Canyons Project</b>,
which aims to develop pedestrian and bicycle trail connections to the proposed
52-mile San Diego River Trail in the City of San Diego. The planning will focus
on possible alignments for a 3.3-mile trail that would link neighborhoods north
and south of the San Diego River to a City-planned river park in eastern
Mission Valley. The Coastal Conservancy has been developing the project in
close collaboration with the San Diego River Conservancy. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $200,000 to the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition
to plan for and design about three miles of the <b>Rose Creek Watershed Trail</b>
in the City of San Diego. The new trail will link existing trails, provide safe
railroad and creek crossings, and greatly improve access from the upper Rose
Creek watershed to Mission Bay. The trail will also become an important
connection to the Coastal Rail Trail, a planned 40-mile commuting and
recreation trail between downtown San Diego and Oceanside. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the City of San Diego for planning
and permitting necessary to reclaim the Nelson Sloan Quarry in the <b>Tijuana
River Valley</b>. The reclamation will improve the natural values and
appearance of the abandoned quarry, which lies within Tijuana River Valley Regional
Park, while providing a low-cost option for disposing of sediment that must be
dredged from the Tijuana Estuary and other nearby locations. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $104,000 to the Endangered Habitats Conservancy
for restoration of <b>Swan Canyon</b> in the City of San Diego. The funding
will be used to replace invasive non-native vegetation, including stands of
giant reed, with native plants. The work will improve wildlife habitat, remove
a fire hazard, and decrease the number of hidden areas used for encampments and
criminal activity. The funding follows Conservancy support for planning and
permitting provided since 1999. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to the San Francisco Estuary Institute
(SFEI) to prepare the <b>Historical Ecology Study of North San Diego County Coastal
Wetlands</b>. Working with the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
and California State University, Northridge, SFEI will analyze historical
documents to characterize changes in water flows, habitats, and the plants and
animals found in eight wetlands from Torrey Pines State Reserve to Camp
Pendleton. The information will be used to develop restoration strategies
geared to each of the wetlands. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized the City of San Diego to use $56,000 of
previously authorized Conservancy funds to complete a <b>Vernal Pool Habitat
Conservation Plan</b> for the southwestern area of the City. Vernal
pools—wetlands that are occasionally dry—support several rare and endangered
plants and animals and are one of the most threatened ecosystems in the region.
The plan will be prepared in conjunction with the State’s Natural Communities
Conservation Program, which aims to conserve natural communities while
accommodating compatible land use and development. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $60,000 to the Maritime Museum of San Diego to
plan and coordinate the <b>Tall Ships Festivals of 2010</b> held in September
and October at the ports of San Diego, Dana Point, and Chula Vista. The events
featured visits from historic tall ships and working craft from around the
world together with multi-cultural educational and recreational activities
highlighting the three waterfronts. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $126,000 to the Laguna Canyon Foundation for work
leading to future property acquisitions for the <b>South Coast Wilderness</b>
system of parks and preserves. Since 2002 the Conservancy has provided more
than $9 million for purchases totaling 242 acres that have been added to Laguna
Coast Wilderness Park, a major part of the greater wilderness. The 20,000-acre
South Coast Wilderness surrounds the highly urban landscape between Newport
Beach and Dana Point. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $25,000 to Get Inspired!, a nonprofit
organization, to restore and monitor two acres of depleted <b>giant kelp beds</b>
at reef locations near Laguna Beach. Get Inspired! will also use the funding to
train volunteer divers, collect biological data at previously restored sites,
and involve middle and high school students in the restoration effort. Giant
kelp forests are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems in the world,
providing food and shelter for more than 800 species of marine animals.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $994,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority to construct a stairway from Malibu Road to <b>Amarillo
and Malibu Colony beaches </b>in the City of Malibu. When completed, the
stairway will be the only public beach accessway between Malibu Lagoon State
Park and Amarillo Beach. The Conservancy, which acquired the site in 2002 and
funded the stairway’s design, also authorized transfer of the property to the
Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $573,000 to the Mountains Restoration Trust’s
purchase of the 78-acre Cold Creek High Trail property for addition to the <b>Cold
Creek Preserve</b> in the Santa Monica Mountains. The purchase will conserve a
critical segment of a wildlife corridor between Topanga and Malibu Creek state
parks and allow the development of public trails that will be linked to the
area’s regional trail systems. The land contains 12 parcels that could be
developed for residential estates. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $500,000 to the City of Rancho Palos Verdes for
design and construction of nine miles of the <b>Palos Verdes Peninsula Coastal
Trail</b> along the city’s entire coastline. Sections of the trail currently
exist but are disconnected, unmarked, and mostly in poor condition. The trail
will accommodate pedestrians, bicycles and, where feasible, wheelchairs. It
will be designated as part of the <b>California Coastal Trail</b>, and
connecting trails will lead to beaches and through the Palos Verdes Nature
Preserve. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $4 million to The Nature Conservancy for its
purchase of 200 acres for addition to the <b>Santa Clara River Parkway</b>.
Goals of the Parkway project include managing floodwaters, restoring the
natural environment, and creating a public trail system along the lower 23
miles of Southern California’s largest river. The Coastal Conservancy has
worked since 2000 with the Nature Conservancy and other government agencies and
private organizations to develop the Parkway, which so far contains 3,000 acres
along 14 miles of the river. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $2,336,000, including $1.2 million from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to Santa Barbara County for
its acquisition of a largely pristine 172-acre property on <b>Paradise Beach</b>
near Point Sal. The property adjoins hundreds of acres of already protected
land and includes about a mile of beachfront and a variety of habitats that
support hundreds of native plant and animal species. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $175,000 to the University of California to
construct a stairway over the slope of a bluff and safely link well-used and
highly scenic sections of the <b>California Coastal Trail</b> near <b>Campus
Lagoon</b> at UC-Santa Barbara. The project includes restoration of adjacent
portions of the bluff face, which has been severely eroded by a series of
informal trails. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $50,000 to the City of Carpinteria to prepare
environmental compliance documents for the Rincon segment of the <b>Carpinteria
Coastal Vista Trail</b> along the Santa Barbara Channel shoreline. The one-mile
trail segment will provide a hiking and biking connection between Santa Barbara
and Ventura counties and improve the safety of access to and along the
shoreline. The trail will close a gap in the <b>California Coastal Trail</b> at
a critical location between Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve and Rincon
County Park. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $180,000 to the Big Sur Land Trust for preparation
of final designs, environmental review, and permit applications for the <b>Lower
Carmel River Floodplain Restoration Project</b>. Key objectives of the project
include restoring 90 acres of wildlife habitat in the river’s historic
floodplain, recharging groundwater, reducing flood flows in urban areas,
reconnecting the east and west sides of the floodplain, and improving the
quality of water entering Carmel River Lagoon. The funding comes from a
$925,000 grant for the project received by the Conservancy from the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, and it follows $250,000 provided by the Conservancy in
2008. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $75,000 to the Elkhorn Slough Foundation to
define, manage, and monitor ten conservation easements in the <b>Elkhorn Slough</b>
watershed. The easements resulted from decades-earlier applications for coastal
development permits and were designed to protect a variety of sensitive
wildlife habitats. (February)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $500,000 to the City of Santa Cruz for the
installation of interpretive exhibits within the <b>Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center</b>. The Center, now under construction,
will introduce people to the 3,500-square-mile marine sanctuary and inform them
about how it can be protected. The site for the Center is near the City’s
Municipal Wharf and only a few blocks from downtown. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Transportation Commission to prepare a Master Coastal Trail Plan for the
County’s segment of the <b>California Coastal Trail</b>. The plan will guide
the development of about 38 miles of bicycle and pedestrian pathways along the
County’s entire coastline, along with spur trails leading to and from points of
interest and community access points. Part of the plan’s development will
include workshops open to interest groups and the general public. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cigarette litter abatement demonstration project. The project will evaluate the
effectiveness of different types of cigarette receptacles and educate the
public about risks to the environment from cigarette litter. Cigarette butts are
the most prevalent type of litter that finds its way to the County’s beaches
and marine habitats. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to plan for future <b>Bay Area Ridge Trail</b> projects within the nine-county
San Francisco Bay Area. The Council is working toward creation of a 500-mile
multi-use trail that will ring San Francisco Bay high on the ridgeline. About
320 miles of the trail are currently open to the public, many constructed with
financial assistance from the Conservancy. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $1 million to San Francisco State University and
environmental contractors for the <b>San Francisco Bay Living Shorelines
Project</b>, which aims to restore subtidal habitats in the Bay and assist with
adaptations to climate change. The funding will support the establishment of up
to three pilot sites in the Bay for restoration of native eelgrass and oyster
beds. Much of the funding is available through the Wildlife Conservation Board
and from a U.S. EPA grant made to the Association of Bay Area Governments.
(August and December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized use of $300,000 of Conservancy funds plus
$357,000 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support the <b>Bay Area
Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium</b>‘s development of climate change
research priorities, adaptation practices, and pilot projects in the San
Francisco Bay Area. The Consortium is working to reduce the negative impacts of
climate change on the region’s wildlife, habitats, and ecosystem functions
while enhancing the role of natural systems in mitigating those impacts. The
funding will include a $150,000 grant to PRBO Conservation Science to
coordinate the Consortium’s science review, technical support, and mapping
efforts. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $420,000 to the San Francisco Parks Trust to
conduct conservation planning in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area,
including outreach and coordination among Bay Area land conservation
organizations. The funding will support several projects and programs
undertaken through the <b>Bay Area Open Space Council</b>. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $100,000 to PRBO Conservation Science to (1)
model ecological changes to <b>San Francisco Bay wetland habitats</b> based on
a range of sea level rise and salinity change projections resulting from
climate change and (2) develop recommendations of high-priority sites for
restoration and conservation in light of the predictions. San Francisco Bay
wetlands are critical habitat for a wide variety of wildlife and directly benefit
local communities through flood control, buffering of storm waters, and
improving water quality. PRBO’s work will help guide planning for long-term
wetlands restoration in the Bay. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to the San Francisco Planning and Urban
Research Association (SPUR) to develop an <b>Ocean Beach Master Plan</b>
addressing a myriad of issues affecting recreation, natural resources, and
predicted sea-level rise. The five-mile length of Ocean Beach makes it one of
the longest urban beaches in the country, and it has the potential for becoming
one of the most spectacular metropolitan beaches in the world. It suffers,
however, from erosion, neglect, and a lack of amenities for visitors. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $290,000 to the Trust for Public Land to develop
a master plan for <b>Glen Canyon Park</b>, including a plan to rehabilitate the
well-used recreation area and designs for trail improvements. Most of the
popular 69-acre park is an urban wilderness that contains forests, grasslands,
and coastal scrub habitats that are home to a wide variety of wildlife. The
City has designated $6.7 million of voter-approved local bond funds for the
park’s improvements. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)
to provide $90,000 of Conservancy funds to the Port of San Francisco to install
improvements to an 800-foot-long segment of the <b>San Francisco Bay Trail</b>
in conjunction with the Port’s reconstruction of Pier 43½ in Fisherman’s Wharf.
The improvements will include lighting, street furniture, and trash receptacles
on the <b>Pier 43 Bay Trail Promenade</b> within the most heavily traveled
portion of the Bay Trail. The Port is relocating the alignment of the trail
from an inland street to the Bay’s edge, affording pedestrians, bicyclists, and
wheelchair riders greater safety and spectacular views. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $800,000 to Ducks Unlimited to construct a
pedestrian/bicycle bridge linking the <b>San Francisco Bay Trail</b> to <b>Inner
Bair Island</b> in Redwood City. The bridge is part of a project that will
improve and reconfigure existing trails and add observation platforms, a
restroom, and kayak accommodations along the edge of an extensive area of
restored salt marsh. An additional $200,000 of Conservancy funds previously
awarded for the Bay Trail will also be used for the project. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $30,000 to the Alameda County Water District for
technical studies of water flows necessary to restore steelhead fisheries to <b>Alameda
Creek</b>. The creek once supported large populations of steelhead trout, but a
series of dams and other structures built since the 1840s have blocked
migration of the fish between the bay and its historic spawning grounds. The
award follows $120,000 provided by the Conservancy in 2006. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $355,000 to the City of Berkeley to construct a
half-mile extension of the <b>San Francisco Bay Trail</b> within <b>Eastshore
State Park</b> and a water<b> </b>access ramp for non-motorized vessels at the <b>Berkeley
Marina</b>. The trail will run due west and become part of a greater project
that will include trail extensions, new park amenities, bus stops, and
lighting. The water access ramp is expected to be well used by wind surfers and
kayakers. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the Bay Area Toll Authority for the
multi-agency planning effort for the future <b>Gateway Park</b> at the eastern
base of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The park will take up 15 acres on
the shoreline of the former Oakland Army Base in an area that has historically
been isolated from nearby communities and difficult to reach. It will offer
spectacular views of the bay and the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and
will be linked to regional trails. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $1 million toward the Muir Heritage Land
Trust’s acquisition of the 483-acre <b>Franklin Canyon</b> property in the city
of Hercules. The property contains a variety of wildlife habitats and a
potential site for a section of the <b>Bay Area Ridge Trail</b> that would
connect to adjacent protected lands along Franklin Ridge. The property had once
been a target of large-scale development projects and its protection has been
strongly supported by the local community. (April)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $118,000 to The Land Trust of Napa County to
assist public and private landowners in removing invasive vegetation and
restoring native habitats in the <b>Eticuera Creek</b> watershed within the
Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area at the north end of Lake Berryessa.
Non-native plants have invaded much of the 34,000-acre watershed resulting in
reduced habitats for wildlife, increased topsoil erosion, and lowered land
values. The work will be conducted by the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area
Conservation Partnership, whose membership includes area landowners. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">waived a $2 million repayment requirement from the Land
Trust of Napa County’s purchase of <b>Wildlake Ranch</b> near Angwin on the
condition that the entire amount of that funding be used for the ranch’s
stewardship and development of public access facilities. The Conservancy’s 2006
funding—made with a requirement for repayment under certain
circumstances—enabled the Land Trust to acquire the 3,000-acre ranch, but since
then other anticipated sources of funding for purchase and management failed to
materialize. The Land Trust plans to open the highly scenic and biologically
rich ranch to the public no later than June 2013. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved use of $75,000 to support the design, permitting,
and other work associated with the <b>Napa River Salt Marsh Restoration Project</b>
near San Pablo Bay. The Conservancy’s contribution will keep the project
on-track for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct Phase III of the
restoration, scheduled to begin in 2011 pending an anticipated federal
appropriation of $12 million. More than half of the 10,000-acre project
site—purchased by the State in 1994—has been restored to tidal wetlands and ponds
managed for waterfowl and shorebirds. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $475,000 to the City of Petaluma to complete
engineering designs, permits, and related studies for rehabilitation of the <b>historic
railroad trestle on the Petaluma River</b> for public access in downtown
Petaluma. The 500-foot-long redwood trestle, built in 1922 but long closed, was
once the main link for cargo transported to and from the river and a key
component of Northern California commerce. The trestle project is part of a
broader effort to re-integrate the river with the City’s downtown and expand
regional systems of trails for pedestrians and bicycles. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $450,000 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for
the Conservancy’s 25% share of monitoring costs through 2015 for the <b>Sonoma
Baylands </b>Wetlands Restoration Demonstration Project at the mouth of the
Petaluma River. The 322-acre project site, a former hayfield, was restored to
tidal wetlands in the 1990s using materials dredged from the Port of Oakland.
The Conservancy also authorized transfer of the property to the San Pablo Bay
National Wildlife Refuge. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to Sonoma County Regional Parks to
complete a master plan for <b>Tolay Lake Regional Park</b> near Sears Point.
The plan will cover restoration of wildlife habitat on 3,400 acres that include
Tolay Lake and 4½ miles of Tolay Creek, along with improvements for a park
center, trails, and equestrian facilities. The targeted area includes two
properties, one owned by the County and the other by the Sonoma Land Trust that
is slated to become part of the park. The Conservancy had contributed $5
million toward the properties’ acquisitions. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $5,250,000 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
for the ongoing restoration of the 648-acre <b>Hamilton Wetlands</b> in Novato,
one of the largest tidal marsh restoration projects in San Francisco Bay. A
portion of the Conservancy’s funding might be used to bring the neighboring
1,600-acre Bel Marin Keys Unit V property into the project. The bulk of the
project’s funding is being provided by the federal government. (February and
May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1 million to the Marin Agricultural Land Trust to
acquire an agricultural conservation easement over the 1,214-acre <b>J. Corda
Ranch</b> five miles west of Novato. The easement will enable the ranch to
continue in agricultural production while protecting wildlife habitat and
scenic lands. The ranch is connected on either end to other properties under
MALT easements, so the Corda easement will result in an extensive protected
wildlife corridor and a buffer against the encroachment of Novato’s western
end. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $2 million to the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy for the restoration of <b>Lower Redwood Creek</b> at Muir Beach.
Most of the creek’s upper watershed is relatively intact, but its mouth and
floodplain are highly disturbed and prone to flooding. The project will restore
the natural ecology of the floodplain, re-create endangered species habitat,
reduce flooding that periodically closes the beach entrance road, and provide
educational opportunities about wetlands restoration. The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service provided $1 million of the Conservancy’s award. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $98,000 to Marin County to assist landowners in
planning for improvements to salmon habitats in the upper <b>San Geronimo Creek
watershed</b>. The planning will guide future habitat restoration on privately
owned parcels, for which funding is expected from a variety of sources. The
planning is the first phase of a program for restoration of the watershed,
which contains some of the region’s best habitat for coho salmon and steelhead
trout. In 2008 the Conservancy provided $100,000 for the program’s development.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $500,000 to the City of Fort Bragg for its
purchase of 12 acres of the former Georgia-Pacific mill site on the City’s
ocean headlands for the <b>Noyo Center for Science and Education</b>. The
Center will include a world-class marine research laboratory and a facility for
an aquarium and other public exhibits about the area’s coastal and marine
environments. The City will repay the Conservancy its contribution over time,
beginning in 2013. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $393,000 to the Mendocino Land Trust to construct
or improve seven segments of the <b>California Coastal Trail</b>, plan for the
development of an additional four segments, and continue to manage its existing
accessways and easements. The construction will add 3.2 miles to the trail, a
beach stairway, and interpretive panels at sites in Westport, Noyo Harbor, Fort
Bragg, Caspar, Little River, Albion, and Elk. This is part of the second phase
of an ongoing collaboration among the Conservancy, the Land Trust, and others
to extend the Coastal Trail in the county. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $275,000 to <b>Jughandle Creek Farm and Nature
Center</b> for planning and design of educational and lodging facilities and an
improved trail system at the Center’s property east of Caspar. The Center
provides environmental education programs for young people, affordable lodging
and camping for tourists and environmental groups, and a greenhouse and nursery
where students, youth groups, and others can learn about and participate in
native plant restoration projects. The funding follows $87,000 provided by the
Conservancy in 2007 for preliminary technical studies and plans for the
improvements. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $36,000 to the <b>Mendocino Coast Botanical
Gardens</b> south of Fort Bragg for the design of improvements to its trail
system to meet Americans with Disabilities Act access standards. The Gardens
contains seven acres of landscaped gardens and 40 acres of natural lands along
the coastline, together with about 1½ miles of paved trails. The Gardens’
facilities and most of the paved trails are wheelchair-accessible except for
three trail sections that are too steep for most wheelchair riders. The
Conservancy has long supported the Gardens, providing more than $2.3 million
since 1982 for the purchase of and improvements to the site. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $10,000 to the Moat Creek Managing Agency for its
continued operation and maintenance of public access improvements at <b>Moat
Creek Beach</b> and along the Moat Creek segment of the <b>California Coastal
Trail</b> south of Point Arena. The sites were created as part of an early and
successful Conservancy effort to reduce the density of the Whiskey Shoals
subdivision for the protection of scenic natural and recreational lands.
(February)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $600,000 to the Mattole Restoration Council for
continued enhancement of the natural environment in the lower watershed of the <b>Mattole
River</b>. The primary objectives of the restoration are a reduction in flows
of sediment that degrade salmon and trout spawning habitats, planting of trees
and other native vegetation to stabilize streambanks and provide shade for fish
habitat, and removal of invasive plants that threaten to overrun areas of the watershed.
The funding is supporting the third phase of restoration work that began in
2003. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $300,000 to the Humboldt County Resource
Conservation District for final design of the <b>Salt River Ecosystem
Restoration Project</b> near Ferndale. The project aims to restore fish and
wildlife habitat, reduce soil erosion on private lands, excavate a new river
channel, and provide for long-term maintenance and management of the restored
areas. The Salt River, within the Eel River Estuary, was once excellent habitat
for a variety of wildlife and contributed to the Eel River’s prodigious
populations of salmon and steelhead trout. Land-use changes in the estuary
since the late 19th century, however, have degraded water quality and wildlife
habitats and led to widespread flooding. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $500,000 to the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community
of the Trinidad Rancheria for the reconstruction of <b>Trinidad Pier</b>. The
existing wooden pier, constructed in 1947, is deteriorating and has
contaminated Trinidad Harbor with chemicals from creosote-treated pilings and
runoff from routine activities such as boat washing and fish cleaning. The new
pier will be constructed of concrete and steel and equipped with a system to
collect runoff water. The Conservancy earlier contributed funding for the new
pier’s design. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $175,000 to the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service for public access improvements at the 444-acre <b>Ma-le’l Dunes
Cooperative Management Area</b> on the north spit of Humboldt Bay. The slated
improvements include upgrading of existing trails and parking areas and
installation of fencing, restrooms, and signs. The Conservancy contributed
funding toward the site’s purchase in 2003. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $100,000 to the City of Arcata’s purchase of about
16 acres for addition to the <b>Arcata Community Forest</b>. The property
contains forests and wetlands along a portion of the south fork of Janes Creek
within a watershed that supports coho salmon and steelhead and cutthroat trout.
The purchase will ensure the protection of the property’s natural resources and
provide a site for public trails that will link to regional trail systems.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $92,000 to the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and
Conservation District to complete final design and permitting for Phase II of
the <b>Humboldt Bay Water Trails</b> program. The funding will support the
design of new docks at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary and Woodley
Island Marina and improvements to water access at Samoa Beach County Park. The
objective of the program is to develop a series of water routes for canoeists
and kayakers that are safe, easily accessible, and compatible with the natural
environment and the interests of private landowners. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $50,000 to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust for
the design and permitting of the <b>Freshwater Nature Trail</b> along the
perimeter of the Freshwater Farms Reserve north of Eureka. The planned
three-quarter-mile trail will include parking and picnic areas and a boat
launch to Freshwater Slough, which flows to Humboldt Bay. Conservancy funding
contributed to the Land Trust’s purchase of the 54-acre reserve in 2007.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $70,000 to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust to
plan for the acquisitions of a conservation easement on the 160-acre <b>Wetherell
Dairy</b> in Fort Dick, Del Norte County, and fee title to the 40-acre <b>Senestraro
property</b> in Eureka, Humboldt County, and to prepare a Restoration and
Management Plan for the 77-acre <b>McNamara Dairy</b> in Orick, Humboldt
County. The Wetherell Dairy conservation easement will allow continued
operation of a historic dairy in the Smith River Plain while preventing its
subdivision and protecting its wildlife habitat. The Senestraro acquisition
will allow restoration of Martin Slough, a tributary of the Eel River. The
McNamara Dairy was purchased with Conservancy funds in 2009, in part to protect
and enhance the environment of the estuary of Redwood Creek. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $685,000 to the Crescent City Harbor District for
the planning, design, and permitting of public access improvements in <b>Crescent
City Harbor</b>. The funding will support the development of overall design
guidelines along with specific designs for a waterfront promenade and an
extension of the <b>California Coastal Trail</b>. The Conservancy has worked
with Crescent City to revitalize its waterfront since 1984. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $100,000 to the County for improvements to <b>Battery
Point Lighthouse</b> in Crescent City to ensure continued public access to the
lighthouse and island grounds. Recent damage to the cast-iron roof of the
lighthouse threatens its structural integrity and long-deferred maintenance
must be addressed to stem the continued deterioration of the lighthouse
structures and the trail from the City’s waterfront. The lighthouse is an
iconic symbol of California’s North Coast and is visited by more than 15,000
people each year. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2011 the State Coastal Conservancy supported 79
projects along California’s coast and around San Francisco Bay with awards
totaling more than <b>$64 million</b>. The Conservancy’s support for these
projects is leveraging <b>$121 million</b> from the federal and local
governments and private organizations. The funds are being used to protect
natural lands, improve wildlife habitat, support local economies, and help
people enjoy the coast and the Bay Area. The majority of the Conservancy’s
funding came from resources bond acts approved by the State’s voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To accomplish its goals the Conservancy relies on
partnerships with local communities and more than 100 nonprofit organizations
based in all parts of the coast and around San Francisco Bay. This network
ensures that local residents inform the Conservancy about coastal needs and
opportunities and are actively involved in the Conservancy’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Public Access along the length of the coast, the
Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved funding for projects to extend and improve the
California Coastal Trail in San Diego, Monterey, San Mateo, San Francisco,
Mendocino, and Humboldt counties—information about these projects is provided
in the county listings that follow. The Coastal Trail will one day run the
entire length of the coast, linking the varied urban, rural, and wilderness areas
that together make up California’s world-renowned coastline. More than half of
the trail is now in place, with new segments and support facilities, such as
parking areas and restrooms, being added every year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided staff for the Ocean Protection Council, a State
organization established to ensure that California maintains healthy,
resilient, and productive ocean and coastal ecosystems for the benefit of
current and future generations. In 2011, the OPC:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $1.96 million for continued monitoring of the
State’s system of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) established under the Marine
Life Protection Act. The MPA Monitoring Enterprise—a program of the California
Ocean Science Trust—is using the funding to: (1) advance the development of
scientific approaches to monitoring; (2) manage and share information,
including monitoring data and scientific analyses; and (3) communicate
monitoring results and support adaptive MPA management. California Sea Grant
also awarded funds for baseline data collection for the newly designated South
Coast MPAs, using $4 million made available by the OPC in 2008. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">adopted a resolution on Sea Level Rise (SLR) calling for
State agencies to: (1) assess vulnerabilities of projects and programs over the
full range of SLR projections; (2) avoid high-risk decisions, based on the SLR
projections; and (3) coordinate use of the same SLR projections among agencies
working on a particular project or program. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $990,000 to prepare a Spiny Lobster Fishery
Management Plan. Spiny lobsters are a popular commercial and recreational
fishery and are subject to an unknown level of illegal take. Basic studies of
population ecology and habitat use are ongoing, but more information is needed
to understand population size and habitat requirements to support a sustainable
commercial and recreational harvest. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $222,000 to the California State Lands Commission
to review and update its offshore geophysical permit program. The funding will
allow the Commission to incorporate up-to-date science regarding the potential
impacts of geophysical surveys on marine life and the coastal environment and
conduct an environmental analysis, with public review, of the permit program. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">adopted a protocol for the California Voluntary
Sustainable Seafood Program for commercial fisheries, as directed by the
Legislature in 2009. Program elements include establishment of a process and
standards for sustainable certification, grants and loans (pending legislated
funding) to assist fisheries in becoming certified, design of a label to
identify certified seafood, and marketing assistance. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on test and pilot projects for marine renewable energy and prepared an
accompanying white paper containing guidance for permitting. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized development of an agreement with the California
Technology Agency to support the integration of California’s coastal and marine
geospatial data into a statewide Internet-based “geo portal” to improve access
to these data by interested parties, including the general public. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conducted by the State’s two Sea Grant programs using funds from a $1.08
million OPC grant awarded in 2010. The projects are grouped under three
areas—sustainable fisheries, climate change, and coastal and marine spatial
planning—and will assist the OPC in making management and policy decisions.
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For San Diego County, the Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $2.5 million to the San Diego Association of
Governments to design and construct nearly three miles of the Bayshore Bikeway
and California Coastal Trail along San Diego Bay. On its south end the new
trail will link to an existing section of the bikeway at National City’s Pepper
Park and run northward along the National City Marina and through much of the
Naval Base San Diego. The Bayshore Bikeway, about half complete and aligned
with the Coastal Trail, will one day encircle the bay. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $1,445,000 to the City of Santee’s purchase of
the 105-acre Walker Property along the San Diego River to protect and restore
natural habitats and provide compatible public access. The property had been
used for sand mining but contains high quality habitat for resident and
migratory birds, including two endangered species. A portion of the funding
will be used to design a new section of the San Diego River Trail, which is
planned to run from the river’s headwaters to the ocean. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $650,000 to the City of Del Mar to construct a
pathway to Del Mar Beach and replace dilapidated public restrooms as part of
the new 17th Street Beach Safety Center. The new pathway from Coast Boulevard
at 17th Street will be wheelchair accessible and enable beachgoers to avoid
passing through a busy parking lot. The 2.5-mile Del Mar Beach attracts an
estimated two million people annually. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $450,000 to the County’s Department of Parks and
Recreation for the design and construction of a 1½-mile section of the
Sweetwater River Trail in Sweetwater Valley Regional Park in Bonita. The new
trail section will be the final link connecting the Sweetwater Loop Trail
System on the east side of the park to the Bayshore Bikeway and the California
Coastal Trail to the west. The trail will accommodate hikers, bikers,
wheelchair riders, and equestrians and replace an informal dirt pathway that is
occasionally inaccessible. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $286,000 to the San Diego Unified Port District to
revitalize commercial fishing facilities at Driscoll’s Wharf on San Diego Bay.
The funding is being used for structural improvements to the offloading pier,
purchase and installation of an ice machine and live seafood holding tanks, installation
of interpretive signs, and planning for an on-site fisherman’s market. The
funding follows $450,000 provided by the Conservancy in 2007 for preparation of
a comprehensive commercial fisheries revitalization and public access plan to
counter the decline in the region’s commercial fishing industry and improve
public access and visitor-serving facilities on the bay’s waterfront.
(September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $150,000 to the San Diego History Center to
prepare plans to update the exhibits and use of the Junipero Serra Museum and
make it a focal point for presentations about the history and significance of
the San Diego River. Although a recognized San Diego landmark, the museum is
currently underutilized, drawing fewer than 20,000 visitors per year and
housing exhibits that are 15-20 years old. The museum is near the mouth of the
river on Presidio Hill, right above Old Town San Diego, and first opened to the
public in 1929. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $70,000 to the Maritime Museum of San Diego to
plan and coordinate the Tall Ships Festivals of 2011 to be held in September at
the ports of San Diego, Dana Point, and Chula Vista. The events will feature
visits from historic tall ships and working craft from around the world
together with multi-cultural educational and recreational activities
highlighting the three waterfronts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $2 million to Orange County and $3.4 million to
Riverside County for design and permitting of the remaining sections of the
Santa Ana River Parkway in the two counties. The Parkway—more than half
complete—will one day run for about 100 miles from the crest of the San
Bernardino Mountains to the coast near Huntington Beach. The Conservancy’s funding
will be directed at a planned three-mile section of the Parkway in Orange
County and an adjoining 22½-mile section in Riverside County. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to prepare a comprehensive conceptual restoration plan for the Los Cerritos
wetlands complex in the cities of Long Beach and Seal Beach near the mouth of
the San Gabriel River. The 450-acre study area contains about 200 acres of
mostly degraded wetlands in public and private ownership. The authority holds
title to more than 170 acres and is looking to expand its holdings. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.5 million to the City of Long Beach to develop
a 1¼-mile-long park and restore native wildlife habitats in the Deforest
Wetlands, a 39-acre flood-control detention basin along the lower Los Angeles
River. Almost four miles of public trails will be constructed in the site along
with a bicycle staging area. Besides benefitting wildlife, the habitat
restoration will improve the river’s water quality and increase flood
protection for nearby neighborhoods. The project will be a significant step
forward in the creation of the planned 52-mile Los Angeles River Greenway.
(November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $991,000 to the City of Long Beach to dredge,
treat, and dispose of contaminated sediments from the west arm of Colorado
Lagoon. The project is part of a larger effort to improve the lagoon’s water
quality and wildlife habitats. About two-thirds of the Conservancy’s funding
came from a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(January and November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $500,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority for design and construction of Compton Creek Natural Park
in Compton. The park will be built on a four-acre, publicly owned vacant lot
adjacent to Washington Elementary School. It will be designed to highlight the
creek’s natural environment and will include a gateway to the Compton Creek
Regional Garden Park Trail, which will lead to the Los Angeles River Trail.
(March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $280,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority for site improvements and planning to provide for public
access, community stewardship, and educational programs at the Ballona Wetlands
Ecological Reserve. The project is targeting 300 acres of State-owned land
north of Ballona Creek that has been closed to the public but suffers from
dumping and other illegal activities. Site improvements will include garbage
removal and new gates, fences, and educational signs. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $89,000 to California State University Fullerton
Auxiliary Service Corporation to restore and monitor a native oyster bed using
community volunteers for the Alamitos Bay Oyster Project in Long Beach. The
funding will support the establishment of a 60-square-meter bed of Olympia
oysters—California’s only native oyster—and apply what is learned to future
restoration efforts in Southern California. Community participation is expected
to stimulate the public’s interest in the natural environment and similar
restoration projects. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $20,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority to manage public beach accessways in Malibu. Most of the
funding will be directed to the management of a stairway to the beach in the
Latigo Shores neighborhood, but a portion is expected to assist in the
management of an additional four access easements held by the Authority.
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $500,000 to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy’s
acquisition of 70 acres of the Hollingsworth Ranch property along the Ventura
River. The purchase protects 1.3 miles of spawning and rearing habitat for
endangered southern steelhead trout and links already protected lands upstream
and downstream. The purchase is part of a greater effort to create the Ventura
River Parkway on the lower 15 miles of the river. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $405,000 to the County to replace a four-barrel
culvert crossing with a 520-foot bridge along the Ojai Valley Trail at the
confluence of San Antonio Creek and the Ventura River. The project will greatly
improve passage for steelhead trout to and from 15 miles of streams in the
creek’s watershed and allow the trail to remain open to users year-round. The
culverts have filled with sediment in years with high rainfall, blocking
passage for the trout and washing out the trail. The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration provided $190,000 of the Conservancy’s funds. (March
and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $164,000 from the California sea otter tax
check-off fund to the University of California, Santa Cruz, for an
investigation into the effects of coastal contaminants and other human-caused
stressors on California sea otters. The otters suffer from early mortality and
low birth rates and evidence suggests that causes include infectious diseases,
parasites, and toxins resulting from human-related activities. The funding
follows $319,000 awarded by the Conservancy for the study in 2008 and 2009.
(January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $3 million to The Trust for Public Land for its
purchase of the 63-acre Ocean Meadows property in Devereux Slough. The purchase
will complete a 650-acre assemblage of properties permanently protected for
wildlife habitat, scenic views, recreation, and education, and allow for future
restoration of the property’s wetlands. The Conservancy’s award includes
$500,000 received from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the University of California, Santa
Barbara, for public access improvements at the Coal Oil Point Reserve adjacent
to Devereux Slough. The improvements will include new and repaired fencing, new
entrance structures, and a seasonal boardwalk over a flooded section of the
trail. A primary objective of the improvements is to protect the reserve’s
fragile wildlife habitats. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $4.5 million available for the removal of San
Clemente Dam on the Carmel River. The obsolete dam poses a significant threat
to downstream lives and property and is a barrier to the migration of steelhead
trout. The Conservancy has been working for the dam’s removal since 2000 with
several government agencies, conservation organizations, and California
American Water, which owns the dam and is contributing $49 million to the
project. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $250,000 to the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea to
construct public access improvements and restore dune wildlife habitat at the
popular Carmel Beach. The access improvements will include changes to the
parking layout, installation of a blufftop boardwalk and view platform, and
construction of a 550-foot section of the California Coastal Trail that will connect
the beach to more than 20 miles of the trail that extend northward. The dune
restoration will include replacement of invasive, exotic vegetation with plants
native to the area. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $60,000 to O’Neill Sea Odyssey for California
Ocean Stewards, a new marine education program serving underserved elementary
school children in the Monterey Bay area. Program components include lessons in
navigation, sailing, conservation, and marine science aboard a 65-foot
catamaran in Monterey Bay; classroom instruction utilizing website materials;
community service; and follow-up projects at the O’Neill Sea Odyssey Marine
Education Center in Santa Cruz. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $600,000 to the Resource Conservation District of
Santa Cruz County to design and permit eight to ten watershed restoration
projects as part of Phase 3 of the Integrated Watershed Restoration Program.
The IWRP, which began in 2003 in Santa Cruz County, established a voluntary,
non-regulatory approach to watershed restoration by funding project designs and
permit applications and forming a technical advisory committee drawn from
federal, State, and local resource and permitting agencies. The grant augments
$900,000 awarded by the Conservancy for the program in 2008. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $2.65 million to the Coastside Land Trust to
acquire a 50-acre bluff-top portion of the Wavecrest property in Half Moon Bay,
design an extension of the California Coastal Trail through the property, and
produce a conceptual design for extending the Coastal Trail south about ½ mile
to Redondo Beach. The property supports a greater number and diversity of
raptors than any other site in the County and was long threatened with
development. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $500,000 to the County to purchase and install
bathrooms and other visitor facilities at both ends of the planned Devil’s
Slide Coastal Trail and for planning and permitting to extend the trail one
mile southward to Montara and Gray Whale Cove State Beaches. The Devil’s Slide
portion of the California Coastal Trail will be located on the existing route
of Highway 1 that will be closed to motor vehicles when Caltrans completes the
Devil’s Slide bypass tunnel. The Conservancy is also involved in the planning
effort to extend the Coastal Trail northward of the tunnel into Pacifica.
(July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the City of Pacifica to acquire the
six-acre Tronoff parcel at the Pedro Point Headlands just south of Pacifica as
a site for the California Coastal Trail. The new Coastal Trail segment will
connect to publicly owned land on the headlands and the future Devil’s Slide
Coastal Trail. The hoped-for future acquisition of a neighboring property would
allow the new segment to be linked to the existing length of the Coastal Trail
that runs along the City’s coastline. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the County to build a ¼-mile segment
of the California Coastal Trail and replace a deteriorating bridge over San
Vicente Creek at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach. The new 60-foot
bridge will cross the creek near the reserve parking lot and link to dirt
bluff-top trails and the Coastal Trail, which will run southeast to the reserve
boundary at Cypress Avenue. The bridge and the trail will accommodate hikers,
wheelchair riders, bicyclists, and equestrians. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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five-acre Conservancy-owned property about three miles south of Half Moon Bay,
to the Coastside Land Trust. The Conservancy also awarded the land trust a
$45,000 grant to improve and manage the property for public use. The planned
improvements include fencing, signs, and a gravel parking area that could be
used by visitors to the nearby Cowell-Purisima Coastal Trail, which was
recently opened. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $5.9 million available for the ongoing effort to stem
the spread of invasive Spartina, fast-growing varieties of cordgrass that
threaten native wildlife habitats in the Bay. The Conservancy has been working
since 1999 to eradicate the noxious weeds, and the effort has succeeded in
reducing the range of the infestation from a high of 800 acres to fewer than
100 acres at the end of 2010. Formerly infested sites are now being replanted
with native vegetation. The Wildlife Conservation Board is providing $4.1
million of the funding and an additional $267,000 is coming from the federal
government. (March and September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $2.5 million available to plan for Phase II of the
South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, the West Coast’s largest tidal
wetlands restoration project. The planning will position future work for
receipt of matching funds from the federal government and other sources. Of the
six habitat restoration and five public access projects undertaken under Phase
I, only two remain to be completed. The Wildlife Conservation Board is
providing $475,000 of the planning funds. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1 million to the Association of Bay Area
Governments to establish the San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail, a planned
network of launching and landing sites around San Francisco Bay for small
non-motorized boats. Working closely with the Conservancy, ABAG will use the
funding to develop and improve water trail sites, provide information about the
trail, promote safe boating practices and wildlife protection, and plan for the
trail’s continued development. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved funding for projects to extend and improve the
San Francisco Bay Trail in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Alameda
counties—information about these projects is provided in the county listings
that follow. The Bay Trail will one day encircle San Francisco and San Pablo
Bays with a continuous 500-mile network of bicycling and hiking trails along or
near the shoreline. About 310 miles of the trail—over 60 percent of its
ultimate length—have been completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Area Ridge Trail in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma
counties—information about these projects is provided in the county listings
that follow. The Ridge Trail will one day contain a continuous 550-mile network
of hiking, bicycling, and equestrian trails on the ridgelines encircling San
Francisco and San Pablo Bays. More than 325 miles of the trail are now open to
the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $100,000 to the Association of Bay Area
Governments to organize and present the tenth State of the Estuary Conference
in the fall of 2011. The biennial, conference brings together scientists,
managers, interest groups, and the public to address the protection and
restoration of the Bay-Delta Estuary. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $50,000 to Greenbelt Alliance to produce the 2012
edition of At Risk: The Bay Area Greenbelt, which will contain maps of risks to
open space lands in the San Francisco Bay area, an evaluation of policy
measures to conserve open space, and information about the resource values of
these lands. The report has been produced since 1989 and is well used by
conservationists and elected officials. The new edition will contain extensive
data presented in an interactive online map. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $50,000 to Bay Area Clean Water Agencies, a joint
powers authority, to administer funding for Bay Area Integrated Regional Water
Management Plan projects. The plan is addressing the region’s needs and
objectives for water supply, water quality, and floodwater management and sets
forth a strategy to meet those needs and objectives. Considerable funding is
available for projects in the region and the costs to administer that funding
is being shared by several government agencies. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $650,000 to the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy to improve segments of the California Coastal Trail and Bay Area
Ridge Trail in the Presidio of San Francisco. The improvements will affect more
than a mile of trails south of the Golden Gate Bridge and include a new link to
the Rob Hill Campground. The improvements are part of a greater effort to
create a loop of trails allowing hikers and bikers to explore the Presidio
forest, historic districts, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay shore, and ocean
overlooks. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $150,000 to Island Conservation, a nonprofit
organization, to plan for the eradication of invasive house mice in the
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, which includes the Farallon Islands. The
islands host the largest seabird breeding colony in the United States outside
of Alaska and Hawaii, providing habitat for thirty percent of California’s
breeding seabirds. The non-native house mice have altered the islands’
ecosystem and are predators of eggs and chicks, making them a significant
threat to populations of seabird species. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide $70,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to the Port of San
Francisco to construct a ¾-mile section of the San Francisco Bay Trail along
Cargo Way in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point District. The trail section will run
from Jennings Street at the entrance to Heron’s Head Park to Third Street near
Islais Creek, closing a significant gap in the Bay Trail between the City’s
southeast waterfront and a principal gateway to downtown. Trail users will be
separated from auto traffic by a curb and fencing, particularly benefitting
cyclists who now must contend with industrial truck traffic. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.85 million to Ducks Unlimited for the
restoration of wetlands at Middle Bair Island. The project will restore tidal
flows to 571 acres and improve an additional 307 acres of existing wetlands.
The restoration follows a decades-long public campaign to save the wetlands on
Inner, Middle, and Outer Bair Islands and restore their marshes, which are home
to a wide variety of waterfowl and other wildlife. The funding is available
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the State
Department of Water Resources. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $500,000 to the Midpeninsula Regional Open
Space District’s purchase of the 97-acre Silva property for addition to Russian
Ridge Open Space Preserve near the town of La Honda. The purchase will greatly
improve the public’s ability to get to Mindego Hill, a prominent 2,143-foot
peak, and provides an excellent opportunity to develop a parking lot on Alpine
Road. The property is in the midst of 5,000 acres of protected land in the
Santa Cruz Mountains and supports a wide variety of wildlife, including
mountain lions, coyotes, badgers, and raptors. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $250,000 to the County to improve a 0.84-mile
section of the Crystal Springs Regional Trail adjacent to Crystal Springs
Reservoir to accommodate hikers, bikers, wheelchair riders, and equestrians.
The improvements will include repaving, culvert repair, and installation of
benches, signs, information kiosks, fencing, and a restroom. The regional trail
is mostly complete and will one day run for 17½ miles between San Bruno and
Woodside. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide $245,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to East Palo Alto to
construct a 0.92-mile trail around the perimeter of the planned Cooley Landing
Park on the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The trail will connect to the San
Francisco Bay Trail and accommodate hikers, bikers, and wheelchair riders.
Cooley Landing is a nine-acre peninsula that the City has targeted for a park
since 2003. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $68,000 to the Santa Clara County Open Space
Authority to construct a 5.8-mile segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail in the
Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve east of San Jose. The new segment offers
sweeping views of the bay and surrounding mountain ranges and links to an
existing trail from San Jose’s Alum Rock Park. The trail accommodates hikers,
bikers, and wheelchair riders and is being considered for future use by
equestrians. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $1 million to the East Bay Regional Park
District’s purchase of the 955-acre Owen property for addition to Pleasanton
Ridge Regional Park. The property contains a mosaic of woodland, grassland,
scrub, and creekside habitats and offers excellent opportunities for a new staging
area and trails to existing portions of the park. The 6,500-acre park runs from
Dublin to Sunol on the ridge separating the East Bay from Pleasanton and the
Livermore Valley. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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provide $200,000 from an earlier Conservancy block grant to the City of Oakland
for construction of a San Francisco Bay Trail segment between Fruitvale Avenue
and High Street along the Oakland Estuary. The 0.1-mile segment will close a
gap in the 6.6-mile Oakland Waterfront Trail portion of the Bay Trail that will
one day run between downtown Oakland and Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional
Shoreline near the airport. The segment will be composed of concrete on steel
piles at the edge of the estuary. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $190,000 to Zone 7 Water Agency, a special
government district, for updating its Stream Management Master Plan for about
100 miles of stream corridors in the Alameda Creek watershed in eastern Alameda
County. The updated plan will integrate designs for improved fish and wildlife
habitats with measures to improve flood management, groundwater recharge, and
water quality. The project will build on Conservancy-supported work in the
lower reaches of Alameda Creek, which is widely considered to offer the best
opportunity in the Bay Area to restore stream habitat for recovery of the
threatened steelhead trout. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $2.5 million to Save Mount Diablo’s purchase
of the 1,080-acre Bertagnolli Ranch adjacent to Mount Diablo State Park. The
purchase will protect a variety of wildlife habitats including blue oak and
other woodlands, desert scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. The property has long
been targeted for conservation and may one day become part of the State Park. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $3.1 million to the Solano Land Trust’s
purchase of 1,500 acres of the Rockville Trails Estates property in the Vaca
Mountains west of Fairfield. The property lies in the southern end of the
800,000-acre Blue Ridge-Berryessa Natural Area, a swath of biologically diverse
habitats that is being assembled and protected by a consortium of government
agencies and private organizations. The property contains native woodlands and
grazing land along with a planned alignment for six miles of the Bay Area Ridge
Trail. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $140,000 to the City of Benicia to plan for the
restoration of about 15 acres of the Benicia waterfront at the foot of First
Street, two miles west of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge. The area is lacking in
visitor amenities but offers spectacular views of the Carquinez Strait, has a
rich history of waterfront uses, and contains beaches, marshlands, and a
community green. The Conservancy has worked with the City to improve its
waterfront for more than 20 years. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.5 million to the Napa County Regional Parks and
Open Space District to create the Lake Berryessa Environmental Education Camp
on the Putah Creek arm of Lake Berryessa. The camp will be built on the 15-acre
site of a former Boy Scout camp and will be the County’s first outdoor
environmental education camp. It will primarily target school-aged children and
will offer opportunities for water recreation, hiking, horseback riding, and
nature observation. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $400,000 to the County to retrofit the Zinfandel
Lane Bridge over the Napa River near St. Helena to remove a significant barrier
to Chinook salmon and steelhead trout migrations. The retrofit—completed in
October—made about 90 miles of historic spawning and rearing habitat upstream
of the bridge much more accessible to the fish and improved the river’s
environment for about 14 other native fish species. The project also improved
the structural integrity of the historic bridge, which dates to 1913. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $750,000 to the purchase by LandPaths, a
conservation organization, of a remainder interest in the 120-acre Ranchero
Mark West property in the heart of the Mayacamas Mountains northeast of Santa
Rosa. The current owners will retain a life estate in the property and continue
to reside there and make the property available for public access and
environmental education programs. LandPaths’ purchase will ensure that the
property remains protected and available to the public in perpetuity. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $55,000 to the Sonoma County Agricultural
Preservation and Open Space District to prepare plans and environmental
documentation for the East-Slope Sonoma Mountain Ridge Trail. The proposed
1¼-mile trail will extend from Jack London State Historic Park and will be part
of the Bay Area Ridge Trail. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $152,000 to Sonoma County Regional Parks for the
construction of a ¼-mile segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail at Highway 12 on
the eastern edge of Santa Rosa. The new segment will link existing routes of
the trail that lead to Annadel State Park and Hood Mountain Regional Park and
will provide a far safer crossing of Highway 12 than currently exists.
(September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $100,000 to the Sonoma County Agricultural
Preservation and Open Space District to plan and design a three-mile segment of
the Bay Area Ridge Trail in the Calabazas Creek Open Space Preserve north of
Glen Ellen. The plan will also include a staging area on the floor of Sonoma
Valley and a three-mile trail connection leading to the Ridge Trail alignment
on the rim of the Mayacamas Mountains. The design is the first step toward
opening the 1,280-acre preserve to public use. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $4 million to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
for the completion of the 648-acre Hamilton Wetlands restoration in Novato, one
of the largest tidal marsh restoration projects in San Francisco Bay. The
Conservancy has been a leader in the effort to restore the wetlands since 1995
and the bulk of construction for the restoration is expected to be completed in
2012. The federal government is providing most of the project’s funding and the
State Wildlife Conservation Board will reimburse the Conservancy for its
current contribution. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $450,000 to the County’s purchase of a 21-acre
forested property on San Geronimo Ridge near the town of Forest Knolls. The
property contains valuable wildlife habitat and offers an excellent opportunity
for a new public access route to the adjacent Gary Giacomini Open Space
Preserve. The property has long been subject to development proposals and
efforts to block recreational access. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $650,000 to the Sonoma County Agricultural
Preservation and Open Space District’s purchase of a conservation easement over
the 495-acre Bordessa Ranch on the Estero Americano. The easement will protect
the property’s wildlife habitat and prevent its subdivision, helping to ensure
its continued use as rangeland for cattle. The Conservancy also awarded a
$50,000 grant to Sonoma County Regional Parks Department to develop a public
access plan for the property. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $240,000 to Save the Redwoods League’s
purchase of the 500-acre Raiche-McCrory property within the area known as The
Cedars near Cazadero. The Cedars comprises a unique environment characterized
by serpentine rock barrens, highly alkaline springs, Sargent cypress woodlands,
and many species of rare and endemic plants. The League expects to transfer the
property to the federal Bureau of Land Management for addition to its other
holdings in the area. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $150,000 to the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation
District to research and design improvements to salmon and steelhead trout
habitat at two sites within and along Green Valley Creek near Forestville. The
creek—a major tributary of the Russian River—contains valuable fish and
wildlife habitat that in some areas suffers from severe sediment deposition
that results in frequent flooding and reduced stream flows. In addition to
targeting that problem, designs will be prepared for the restoration of
historic salmon and trout breeding habitat on a former agricultural property
adjacent to the creek. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $140,000 to the Sotoyome Resource Conservation
District to improve water quality and restore fish habitat in the watershed of
Austin Creek, which flows into the Russian River near Duncans Mills. The
project is aimed at reducing road-related erosion and resulting sediment flows
that smother spawning habitat for salmon and steelhead trout. The project is
the first phase of a landowner-supported program to restore the watershed of
Austin Creek, one of the Russian River’s principal tributaries. (July)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $3 million to Save-the-Redwoods League’s
purchase of 957 acres known as the Shady Dell Creek Tract within the Usal
Redwood Forest at the south end of Sinkyone Wilderness State Park. The property
lies along the coast and contains a popular visitor destination known as the
Trees of Mystery—redwood trees that have been strangely contorted by wind over
many decades. The purchase is part of a greater effort to conserve more than
50,000 acres of land in the Usal Creek and South Fork Eel River watersheds,
most of which would be managed as a working forest while protecting fish and
wildlife habitats. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $2.5 million to The Conservation Fund’s
purchase of the 464-acre Smith Tract portion of the Ten Mile Ranch along
Highway 1 north of Fort Bragg. The property contains a variety of natural
communities including redwood/Douglas fir forest, coastal prairie, and
freshwater, brackish, and salt marshes along Ten Mile River. The river’s
estuary—much of which is found on the ranch—is critical habitat for Chinook and
coho salmon. The purchase is the first of two planned phases of an effort to
protect the entire 1,339-acre ranch through a conservation easement. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $2.21 million to the Trust for Public Land’s
purchase of the southern 123 acres of the Point Arena Ranch in the City of
Point Arena. The undeveloped property offers spectacular ocean views from high
bluff tops, is immediately accessible from Highway 1, and provides an excellent
site for extension of the California Coastal Trail. The remaining 409 acres of
the ranch are targeted for acquisition in 2012 and the entire property is
slated for conveyance to the federal Bureau of Land Management. (November)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $46,000 to the Redwood Coast Land Conservancy to
plan and design trails on two blufftop parcels north of Gualala. One site, at Getchell
Cove, is the target site for a half-mile section of the California Coastal
Trail. The other site—the Milhollin parcel—will contain a short trail from the
highway that will offer dramatic ocean views. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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improve Seaside Beach, north of Fort Bragg, and the Heritage Trail, north of
Albion. Seaside Beach straddles Highway 1 and contains natural areas and a
sandy beach that attracts an estimated 175,000 visitors annually. The Heritage Trail
leads from a small parking area on Highway 1 down a wooden stairway and
boardwalk to Dark Gulch Beach. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $2 million to the Humboldt County Resource
Conservation District for the Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project near
Ferndale for natural resource restoration and farmland protection. The project
involves tidal marsh restoration on the 440-acre Riverside Ranch property,
restoration of more than seven miles of the historic Salt River channel, erosion-reduction
projects on private lands in the surrounding Wildcat Hills, and long-term
adaptive maintenance and management of the project area. $1 million of the
awarded funds was made available by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $525,000 to the City of Eureka for design and
construction of the Truesdale Vista Point trailhead at the northern end of a
planned 1.2-mile section of the Elk River Trail, a part of the California
Coastal Trail. The trail will run through the Elk River Wildlife Sanctuary and
serve hikers, bikers, and users of nonmotorized watercraft. The trailhead’s
amenities will include 23 parking spaces, a restroom, picnic facilities, and a
wildlife viewing area. A portion of the funding will also be used for cleanup
of homeless encampments in the vicinity and for a feasibility study aimed at
additional trail development and wildlife habitat improvements on a nearby
parcel. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $315,000 to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust to
acquire the 36-acre Senestraro property along Martin Slough on the Eureka city
limits. The purchase will allow restoration of the property to improve water
quality, manage floodwaters, restore fish and wildlife habitat, and protect and
improve grazing land. Martin Slough flows to the Elk River and contains
valuable but degraded habitat for coho salmon, waterfowl, and other wildlife.
(May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $26,000 to the City of Arcata for the design and
installation of interpretive and directional signs at the Arcata Marsh and
Wildlife Sanctuary. The signs will describe the marsh system’s rich and diverse
natural resources and help guide visitors through five miles of walking and
biking paths. The Conservancy’s work with the City to protect and improve the
sanctuary dates to 1978. (September)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $15,000 to the County to design public access
improvements and protect cultural resources at Big Lagoon County Park north of
Trinidad. The planning covers improvements to allow people with disabilities to
use park campsites, installation of a boat wash station, replacement of a
floating dock, and protections for the O-púyweg Yurok village site. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $145,000 to the National Park Service for initial
planning and design work aimed at construction of a new Redwood National and
State Parks hostel. The new facility will replace a hostel that operated from
1987 to 2010, providing low-cost accommodations to thousands of visitors. The
old structure was built in 1877 and was closed because of concerns about its
seismic safety and overall deterioration. The new hostel will be relocated to
protect cultural resources significant to the Tolowa and Yurok peoples.
(January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2012 the State Coastal Conservancy supported <b>87
projects </b>located in every county along California’s coast and around San
Francisco Bay. The Conservancy’s awards totaled more than <b>$46 million </b>and
leveraged almost <b>$70 million </b>from the federal and local governments and
private organizations. The funds are being used to protect natural lands,
improve wildlife habitat, support local economies, and help people enjoy the
coast and the Bay Area. The majority of the Conservancy’s funding came from
resources bond acts approved by the State’s voters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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partnerships with local communities and more than 100 nonprofit organizations
based in all parts of the coast and around San Francisco Bay. This network
ensures that local residents inform the Conservancy about coastal needs and
opportunities and are actively involved in the Conservancy’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For Public Access along the length of the coast, the
Conservancy:</span></i></b><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $125,000 to Access Northern California to complete
its online guide to wheelchair accessible coastal parks and trails, which provides
detailed information for wheelchair riders heading to the coast. The
interactive guide, found at www.wheelingcalscoast.org, developed from the
Conservancy’s wheelchair rider’s guides for the San Francisco Bay and Los
Angeles/Orange County areas. The new funding is being used to complete the
guide’s coverage of the entire California coast and to update previously
published information. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved funding for projects to extend and improve the
California Coastal Trail in Santa Barbara, Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte
counties—information about these projects is provided in the county listings
that follow. The Coastal Trail will one day run the entire length of the coast,
linking the urban, rural, and wilderness areas that together make up California’s
world-renowned coastline. More than half of the trail is now in place, with new
segments and support facilities, such as parking areas and restrooms, being
added every year. The Conservancy also awarded $300,000 to the nonprofit
organization Coastwalk California to develop a California Coastal Trail
Association, continue the Coastal Trail signing program, and promote public use
of and support for the Coastal Trail. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $200,000 to the Resource Conservation District of
Santa Cruz County to coordinate and prepare at least three in-depth case
studies of the economic value and community benefits of conservation projects
in Sonoma, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. The work is part of the
Healthy Lands & Healthy Communities Initiative, a comprehensive planning
effort to identify priority, multi-benefit conservation projects and potential
new funding sources and mechanisms to pay for them. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $721,000 to Trout Unlimited to improve habitat for
coho salmon and steelhead trout through construction of off-stream storage
facilities in four coastal watersheds. The facilities will allow water to be
stored in the winter, when streamflows are plentiful, to substitute for water
that is currently diverted in the summer, when low flows can be deadly to fish.
The watersheds are those of the Mattole River in southern Humboldt County, San
Gregorio and Pescadero creeks in San Mateo County, and Little Arthur Creek, a
tributary of the Pajaro River in Santa Cruz County. The projects build on Trout
Unlimited’s success with similar projects in other parts of the coast.
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $650,000 to Earth Island Institute for the
Community Wetland Restoration Grant Program, which supports community-based
restoration of coastal wetlands and other natural areas from San Diego through
Santa Barbara counties. Typical projects include replacement of invasive
vegetation with native plants, trash removal, and trail construction. All
projects must involve community participation and education. On average, the
program provides a total of about $300,000 for 10 or so projects per year. The
program is part of the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project, a
partnership of 18 State and federal agencies working in concert with local
governments, conservation organizations, and the business community to acquire,
restore, and improve coastal wetlands and natural areas. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $950,000 for planning and construction of three
new segments of the San Diego River Trail, which one day will link communities
and parklands along the 52-mile length of the river. The County Department of
Parks and Recreation will use the funding to construct the 2½-mile Flume Trail
segment and the San Diego Association of Governments will prepare plans for the
Carlton Oaks and Qualcomm Stadium segments. The San Diego River Trail is a key
component of the developing San Diego River Park, envisioned as a greenbelt
running from the river’s headwaters in the Cleveland National Forest to its
outfall at Ocean Beach. The Conservancy also provided $55,000 to The Trust for
Public Land to prepare a plan for the protection and restoration of the San
Diego River area and the completion of the park. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $450,000 to the County to construct a ¾-mile
trail in Tijuana River Valley Regional Park for use by hikers, bicyclists,
equestrians, and wheelchair riders. It will link two existing trails, allowing
visitors to travel more than five miles through the park. The park contains a
variety of wildlife habitats, including dunes, marshlands, and sage scrub, and
the 22 miles of trails planned for the park will enable people to visit those
areas without threatening the health of the natural environment. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prepare the Historical Ecology Study of the Tijuana River and Estuary. SFEI
will collect historical information about lands along the Tijuana River and how
they have changed since the early days of Spanish settlements. The information
will help guide the many efforts by both the United States and Mexico to
restore and manage the Tijuana River Valley. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $130,000 to the Southwest Wetlands Interpretive
Association to continue its study of how sediments are transported in waters at
the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. The study will assist in
the review of current policies regarding sediment discharge and deposition in
California and may well lead to lower costs for restoration projects and better
use of sediments for beach replenishment and other purposes. The grant adds to
Conservancy funding provided in 2008 and 2009. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Association to continue, for at least five years, its ongoing monitoring of the
physical and biological characteristics of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon adjacent to
Torrey Pines State Reserve. The monitoring, which began in 1987, has been
essential to understanding the dynamic processes that affect the health of the
lagoon and the effectiveness of restoration and management efforts. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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continued technical studies and environmental documentation necessary for
restoration of San Elijo Lagoon in Encinitas. The work will lead to improved
water circulation and wildlife habitats and a program for the lagoon’s
long-term maintenance and management. Although severely degraded, the lagoon is
a valuable component of the network of habitats for birds and fish along the
South Coast. The grant adds to almost $1.9 million of Conservancy funding
awarded since 2008. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Festival of Sail held at the Port of San Diego and the Tall Ship Festival
held at Dana Point Harbor in 2012. The highly popular festivals featured visits
from historic tall ships and working craft from around the world together with
educational activities and live entertainment that called attention to the
importance of the two waterfronts. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.5 million to the City of Laguna Beach for its
purchase of the 56-acre McGehee property for addition to the adjacent Aliso and
Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, a 3,873-acre County park just east of Laguna
Beach. The property features a hiking trail that connects to the adjacent
parkland and to regional trails within the South Coast Wilderness system of
canyons, parks, and preserves. The property offers sweeping views of the coast
and inland hills and contains habitat for a variety of native wildlife. The
Conservancy also provided $160,000 to the Laguna Canyon Foundation to design
and install signs for the park that will provide more than 120,000 annual
visitors with directions to and along the park’s many miles of trails together
with information about park resources and regulations. (August and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $14,000 to the Crystal Cove Alliance to purchase
four beach wheelchairs for use by visitors to Crystal Cove State Park. The
wheelchairs have large balloon tires for traveling over sand and can be pushed
by most adults. Similar wheelchairs have been available for several years and
are well-used by the public. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $6.5 million available for engineering and technical
studies necessary for restoration of the 600-acre Ballona Wetlands Ecological
Reserve along Santa Monica Bay. The studies will lead to improved habitat for
fish, birds, and other wildlife, better flood protection, and opportunities for
people to experience a coastal wetland in the heart of urban Los Angeles. This
is the most recent step in decades of restoration efforts by many government
agencies, private conservation organizations, and the local community.
(January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $2.92 million to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority to purchase five adjacent undeveloped lots on Las Tunas
Beach in Malibu. The purchase preserved unrestricted ocean views from Pacific
Coast Highway and offers an opportunity to develop the lots into a new public
beach. The Conservancy has a long history of helping people get to and enjoy
the world famous beaches of Malibu. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $470,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority to prepare a comprehensive plan for development of new
public accessways to Malibu beaches. The plan will focus on 12 potential access
points located along the length of Malibu’s shoreline. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $715,000 to The River Project, a nonprofit
organization, to develop standard plans for capturing rainwater on residential
properties. The Rainwater Harvesting Project will recruit at least two dozen
San Fernando Valley homeowners to install and maintain a variety of
rain-harvest demonstration projects on their properties for a minimum of two
years, with the resulting information used to guide similar water conservation
efforts throughout greater Los Angeles. The project is part of the City of Los
Angeles Green Streets Initiative, which aims to capture and use storm water and
reduce flows of polluted water to the ocean. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to the Mountains Recreation and
Conservation Authority to construct Milton Street Park along the Ballona Creek
Bike Path east of Marina del Rey in the City of Los Angeles. The 1.2-acre park
will serve as a gateway to the popular trail and a rest area for hikers and
bikers using the trail. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $111,000 to the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy to
prepare a feasibility study and preliminary designs for an Education and
Conservation Center at the Ventura River Steelhead Preserve. The center is
proposed for an old residence on the historic Hollingsworth Ranch, purchased in
2011 with funding, in part, from the Coastal Conservancy. Proposed uses for the
center include a visitor center, environmental research and education, and
community meetings and events. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $60,000 to UC-Santa Cruz to research the effects
of shark attacks on the population of southern sea otters. Earlier
Conservancy-funded research investigated risks to sea otters caused by human
behavior, and those studies discovered a sharp rise in the frequency of lethal
shark attacks. The new research is attempting to provide better understanding
of the causes of these attacks. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to the City of Santa Barbara to improve
passage for steelhead trout in the lower channel of Mission Creek. The project
will modify two concrete flood-control channels that currently block migrating
southern steelhead—an endangered species—from historic spawning and rearing
habitat upstream. The work is necessary for the success of other fish-passage
projects in the creek. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
contributed $100,000 of the awarded funds. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $200,000 to the City of Santa Barbara to
reconstruct the lower portion of the public stairway to Mesa Lane Beach. For
more than 30 years, the Mesa Lane stairs, a part of the California Coastal
Trail, have enabled countless beachgoers to reach the sandy beach at the bottom
of a 140-foot bluff. The lower stairs, however, have deteriorated to the point
that they are becoming hazardous and could wash away in a powerful storm. The
new stairs have been designed to survive 50 years of heavy use, winter storms,
and sea level rise. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $100,000 to the Santa Barbara Trails Council for
design and permitting of a 2.1-mile segment of the California Coastal Trail
through the Sperling Preserve on Ellwood Mesa in Goleta. The trail will connect
Goleta neighborhoods to the north, UC Santa Barbara and Coal Oil Point Nature
Preserve lands to the east, and the scenic rural lands along the Gaviota Coast
to the west. The Sperling Preserve attracts many visitors but the existing
informal trails and beach pathways are in poor condition and in some areas
harmful to wildlife habitats. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $50,000 to the City of Santa Barbara to update the
Goleta Slough Management Plan by adding a study that examines ways to adapt to
sea level rise. Rising sea levels could dramatically affect the area of the low-lying
slough, which contains valuable wildlife habitat surrounded by a regional
airport, two district sanitary facilities, many roads, and a variety of other
facilities critical to the community. Without advance planning, the slough
could be subject to devastating loss of wildlife habitat along with hundreds of
millions of dollars of direct damages to structures and facilities and
resulting losses to the local economy. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $400,000 available to prepare final design, permit,
and environmental review documents for development of a campground at Port San
Luis Harbor overlooking San Luis Obispo Bay. The campground will provide
low-cost accommodations—scarce along most of California’s coast—for up to 300
visitors at a time. The Port San Luis Harbor District will lease the site and
the Conservancy will share in future campground revenues. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and permitting of a planned campground at the site of the former Piedras
Blancas Motel within Hearst San Simeon State Park on the coast. The site offers
an ideal opportunity to provide low- and moderate-cost tent and RV camping to
visitors at the southern end of Big Sur. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $27.5 million of new funding available for the
removal of San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River. The obsolete dam poses a
significant threat to downstream lives and property and is a barrier to the
migration of steelhead trout. The Conservancy has been working for the dam’s
removal since 2000 with several government agencies, conservation
organizations, and California American Water, which owns the dam and is
contributing $49 million to the project. The bulk of the Conservancy’s award comes
from a number of State and federal agencies and private sources. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $1 million to the Monterey Peninsula Regional
Park District’s purchase of the 317-acre Whisler Wilson Ranch east of Point
Lobos for addition to the 4,350-acre Palo Corona Regional Park. The purchase
will greatly increase the public’s ability to reach that park and will also
enable the opening of the neighboring Point Lobos Ranch State Park, acquired in
2004 but closed to the public for lack of access. The ranch offers spectacular
views of Carmel Bay and inland mountains and contains a variety of habitats
that are home to threatened and endangered wildlife. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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design and permitting prior to the restoration of tidal marsh and adjacent
uplands in Elkhorn Slough. The marshlands of the slough are disappearing at a
rapid rate because of diking and draining, increased tidal flooding, and bank
erosion, resulting in losses of highly productive fish and wildlife habitat.
The planned restoration will raise the elevation of 50 acres of marsh through
addition of sediments and restore 50 acres of grasslands to create a buffer
between the estuary and farmland. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $404,000 to the Elkhorn Slough Foundation to
reconstruct a damaged levee and relocate and expand a dock at Whistlestop
Lagoon in Elkhorn Slough. The damaged levee restricts water flow to and from
the 13-acre lagoon and interferes with movements of fish and wildlife between
the lagoon and neighboring waters. The project will replace a portion of the
levee with a bridge that will greatly improve water flows and quality and allow
people to safely cross to the popular Hummingbird Island and the slough’s main
channel. A floating dock will also be relocated and lengthened to reduce
disturbance to lagoon wildlife habitats. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to produce a study that examines how shoreline areas may be vulnerable from
future sea level rise in Monterey Bay. Some of the State’s highest rates of
shoreline erosion are already found around Monterey Bay and the expected rise
in sea levels will only exacerbate the resulting damage. The study will help
local communities plan for and protect against future flooding and coastal
erosion. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $156,000 to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County to
plan for the restoration of natural resources in the Watsonville Slough area.
The goals of the planning are to improve and protect wetlands, manage
floodwaters, protect farmland, and help people get to and enjoy the area. The
funding comes from a grant received by the Conservancy from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service National Coastal Wetland Conservation Grant program, and it
follows many years of work by the Conservancy and other State, federal, and
private agencies and organizations. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $200,000 to the California State Parks Foundation
to produce detailed construction drawings for the restoration of the Pigeon
Point Light Station south of Pescadero. Tours of the lighthouse were suspended
in 2001 when chunks of brick and iron began falling 115 feet from the top of the
lighthouse to the ground, and nothing short of a major restoration is needed to
save the structure and re-open it to the public. The 150-year-old light station
features the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast and attracts more than
100,000 visitors annually. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $2.56 million to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service for the construction of tidal wetlands and pond habitats near Alviso in
Santa Clara County. The work is part of the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration
Project, which aims to restore 15,100 acres of former salt ponds to tidal
wetlands and ponds managed for wildlife habitat. The project will improve the
quality of bay waters, moderate the effects of storms and shoreline flooding,
and assist bay communities in adapting to sea level rise. The California
Department of Water Resources provided $1.2 million of the Conservancy’s grant
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provided $700,000. The Conservancy
also made $546,000—most of which was provided by the U.S. EPA—available for
research into the risks of environmental contamination by mercury at the former
salt ponds. (January and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $550,000 available for the Living Shorelines Project,
which aims to restore underwater wildlife habitats in San Francisco Bay and
help communities prepare for the rise in sea level that is expected to result
from climate change. The funding follows $1 million awarded in 2010 and will be
used for two pilot projects on the San Rafael shoreline in Marin County and
offshore from Eden Landing Ecological Reserve in Hayward, Alameda County. The
projects will examine the ability of restored native oyster and eelgrass beds
to protect shoreline areas that are vulnerable to seal level rise and shoreline
erosion. The State Wildlife Conservation Board is providing $300,000 of the
available funding. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">made $684,000 available for the ongoing effort to
eradicate invasive Spartina, non-native varieties of cordgrass that threaten native
wildlife habitats in and around San Francisco Bay. The Conservancy has been
working since 1999 to eradicate the noxious weeds and the effort has succeeded
in reducing the range of the infestation from a high of 800 acres to an
estimated 45 acres at the end of 2011. Formerly infested sites are now being
replanted with native vegetation. The funding for this stage of the project
came from the Port of Oakland. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $390,000 to the San Francisco Parks Alliance to
conduct conservation planning in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area,
including outreach and coordination among public and private conservation
organizations. Activities will be undertaken through the Bay Area Open Space
Council, which includes more than 50 nonprofit conservation organizations and
public land-management agencies that work throughout the Bay Area. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $100,000 to the American Farmland Trust to
complete the Bay Area Agricultural Sustainability Plan for the support of
working farms in the San Francisco Bay Area. The objectives of the plan are to
expand production on local farms, develop regional markets, and assist farmers
in getting their products to consumers. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">approved funding for projects to extend and improve the
San Francisco Bay Trail in San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Sonoma
counties—information about these projects is provided in the county listings
that follow. The Bay Trail will one day encircle San Francisco and San Pablo
bays with a continuous 500-mile network of bicycling and hiking trails along or
near the shoreline. About 310 miles of the trail—over 60 percent of its
ultimate length—have been completed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bay Area Ridge Trail in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Contra Costa counties—information
about these projects is provided in the county listings that follow. The Ridge
Trail will one day contain a continuous 550-mile network of hiking, bicycling,
and equestrian trails on the ridgelines encircling San Francisco and San Pablo Bays.
About 340 miles of the trail are now open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $617,000 to the Port of San Francisco to improve
public access to San Francisco’s southeast waterfront by removing
creosote-treated pilings at Pier 84 in Islais Creek and preparing plans for the
renovation of the Copra Crane as a waterfront/labor-history landmark. Pier 84’s
pilings leach toxins into the creek, block views of San Francisco Bay and the
creek, and are a navigational hazard. The deteriorating five-story crane is the
last remaining artifact on the City’s waterfront from the days when
longshoremen used hand-operated machinery to offload shipments from bulk cargo
vessels. The funding comes from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
and West Coast Recycling Company. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $400,000 to the San Francisco Planning and Urban
Research Association to follow through with recommendations in the Ocean Beach
Master Plan, in particular closure of the Great Highway south of Sloat Boulevard.
SPUR will prepare plans to reconfigure roadways, extend public transit, and
improve parking in the area. SPUR will also develop a joint management
framework and agreement among the multiple agencies with management
responsibilities for Ocean Beach. The five-mile length of Ocean Beach makes it
one of the longest urban beaches in the country and it has the potential to
become one of the most spectacular metropolitan beaches in the world. The Ocean
Beach Master Plan was largely funded by the Conservancy and released in early
2012. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $250,000 to The Exploratorium to construct indoor
and outdoor exhibits highlighting the history and natural environment of San
Francisco Bay at the museum’s new site on Piers 15 and 17. The exhibits will
include a Bay History Walk along a section of the San Francisco Bay Trail and
hands-on, interactive exhibits that make use of the immediate bayfront
location. The funding will also support a series of public workshops that will
bring experts in a variety of fields to explore ideas about the science and
environment of the bay. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $282,000 to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space
District to construct a 69-space parking lot, restrooms, connector trails, and
other improvements to the San Francisco Bay Area Ridge Trail at El Corte de
Madera Creek Open Space Preserve on Skyline Boulevard. The preserve’s dramatic
scenery, rugged terrain, and 36 miles of interior trails make it a popular
destination, but it has no formal parking area or trails that are accessible to
the disabled. The work is the first of four phases of construction that will
ultimately include a new two-mile section of the Ridge Trail through the
preserve. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $200,000 to Ducks Unlimited to restore wetlands
at Middle Bair Island in Redwood City. The project will restore tidal flows to
571 acres and improve an additional 307 acres of existing wetlands. The
restoration follows a decades-long public campaign to save the wetlands on
Inner, Middle, and Outer Bair Islands and restore their marshlands, which are
home to a wide variety of waterfowl and other wildlife. The funding follows
$1.89 million awarded for the project in 2011. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $500,000 to The Nature Conservancy’s purchase
of the 1,155-acre Nolan Ranch on the side of Mount Hamilton east of San Jose.
The ranch has since been added to Joseph D. Grant County Park and links the
park to the lands of UC-Santa Cruz’s Lick Observatory, expanding a nearly
70-mile stretch of protected lands from Pleasanton to Pacheco Pass. The
purchase preserves migratory routes for wildlife, protects drinking water in
downstream reservoirs, and provides a site for public trails that will include
an extension of the Bay Area Ridge Trail to Mount Hamilton. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $750,000 to the Peninsula Open Space Trust’s
purchase of 490 acres adjacent to Mount Madonna County Park west of Gilroy. The
property is slated for addition to the park and offers excellent opportunities
to expand the regional trails network. A variety of high-quality wildlife
habitats are found on the property including a portion of Little Arthur Creek,
one of the County’s most productive spawning streams for steelhead trout.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $250,000 to the Peninsula Open Space Trust’s
purchase of a scenic 358-acre property adjacent to Uvas Reservoir County Park
near Morgan Hill. The County expects to manage the property as an addition to
the neighboring parkland and eventually to assume ownership. The property is
home to many native species of plants and wildlife and was once slated for
large-scale residential development. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $169,000 to the County for construction and
upgrade of segments of the Bay Area Ridge Trail at Sanborn Park in the Santa
Cruz Mountains near Saratoga. The work will include a new 3.2-mile segment of
the John Nicholas Trail and upgrades to 4.9 miles of the Skyline Trail—both
part of the Ridge Trail—and will open the park to bicyclists for the first
time. The project will create a continuous 22-mile Ridge Trail corridor from
Lake Ranch in Sanborn Park northward to the Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve.
(May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $750,000 to the East Bay Regional Park
District’s acquisition of 1,368 acres for addition to Pleasanton Ridge Regional
Park north of Sunol. The rugged property contains a variety of wildlife
habitats in excellent condition and offers opportunities to greatly expand the
trail system on neighboring parkland. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $175,000 to the Alameda County Resource
Conservation District to support the Alameda County Wildlife-Friendly Pond
Restoration Program, which helps ranchers restore livestock ponds to benefit
both cattle and wildlife. Many species of wildlife, including the threatened
California red-legged frog and California tiger salamander, have long depended
on stock ponds, but most of the 800-1,000 ponds in the eastern county
rangelands are failing and the repair costs are not economical for ranchers.
The program has been responsible for the restoration of 20 ponds since 2006.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $150,000 to the East Bay Regional Park District
to design and obtain permits for improvements to Albany Beach in Eastshore
State Park. The planned improvements include a new section of the San Francisco
Bay Trail, an enhanced sandy beach, restored dunes and other native habitats,
and a parking lot, restrooms, and other facilities for visitors. Albany Beach
lies between the Golden Gate Fields horse racing track and the bay—a location
that is expected to become very popular with visitors to the bay shoreline. The
funding came from Caltrans as mitigation required by the San Francisco Bay
Conservation and Development Commission. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $2.17 million to the East Bay Regional Park
District for wetlands restoration and trail construction at Breuner Marsh in
the Point Pinole Regional Shoreline. The work will include removal of imported
fill and hazardous materials, replacement of invasive vegetation with native
plants, and dredging of channels to improve water circulation. A 1½-mile
extension of the San Francisco Bay Trail will also be constructed on the
uplands portion of the 150-acre site, along with a parking lot, restroom,
picnic area, and spur trail to an overlook. The Conservancy’s award included
$920,000 of grant funds from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $500,000 to the East Bay Regional Park
District’s purchase of 51 acres of the Pacific Custom Materials Property to
expand and improve Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline between Martinez and
Port Costa. The property lies between two existing Regional Shoreline
properties and offers opportunities for a campground, an extension of the San
Francisco Bay Trail, and a landing site for the Bay Area Water Trail. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.37 million to the Brentwood Agricultural Land
Trust to acquire agricultural conservation easements over the 166-acre Stenzel
property near Brentwood. The property contains highly productive farmland
within the County’s designated Agricultural Core. The easements will limit any
future division of the property and help to ensure that the farmland remains in
production. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $500,000 to the City of Richmond to “daylight” and
restore a 750-foot length of Baxter Creek and establish a four-acre greenbelt
at the Miraflores Green Housing Project. The City will remove the culvert that
now contains most of the creek at the site and restore the creek’s floodplain
with natural meanders for the creek channel and native plants. The greenway
will include a trail that links to the San Francisco Bay Trail along with a
pedestrian bridge over the creek and community gardens. Local community groups,
including Groundwork Richmond and Friends of the Richmond Greenway, will assist
with the greenway’s maintenance. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">authorized the Association of Bay Area Governments to
provide $198,000 of Conservancy funds to the East Bay Regional Park District to
construct ½ mile of the San Francisco Bay Trail near the Bio-Rad Laboratories
campus in the City of Hercules. The trail, named the Bio-Rad Bay Trail, will be
built into the side of a bluff overlooking San Pablo Bay and extend from an
existing section of the Bay Trail in the Victoria-by-the-Bay neighborhood. The
trail will eventually be linked to the City’s planned Intermodal Transit Center
and is expected to be well used by bicyclists and pedestrians. (March)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $125,000 to the East Bay Regional Park District to
construct three miles of the Bay Area Ridge Trail known as Martinez Feeder
Trail #1 west of Martinez. The funding will also be used to survey an
additional 0.7-mile future segment of the same trail. When completed, the trail
will run from Dutra Road to Pereira Road and cross or skirt large areas of
protected natural lands. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $292,000 to the Solano Resource Conservation
District to restore 53 acres of wildlife habitat along 1½ miles of Blue Rock
Springs Creek in Vallejo. The project includes restoration of 25 acres of
native oak woodland, creation of a 3½-acre native grassland demonstration site,
and replacement of invasive weeds with native plants. Wardlaw Elementary School
and Jesse Bethel High School are located along the creek and their students
will be actively engaged in restoring and monitoring the site as part of an
existing science education program supported by earlier Conservancy funding.
Many other community volunteers will also be working on the project. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $1 million to the County to restore portions of a
one-mile stretch of the Napa River between St. Helena and Oakville. The project
is part of a greater restoration of the river’s Rutherford Reach that aims to
reduce erosion of sediments into the river’s channel, improve habitat for
salmon and steelhead trout, expand and improve wildlife habitat along the
river’s corridor, and assist with flood management. Vintners and growers along
the river are actively participating in the project. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $3.5 million to the Sonoma Land Trust to restore a
variety of wildlife habitats and construct visitor facilities at the 2,327-acre
Sears Point property on San Pablo Bay. The project will restore tidal marsh,
seasonal wetlands, upland grasslands, and creeks that together are habitats for
vast numbers of wildlife. A new 2½-mile section of the San Francisco Bay Trail
will connect existing portions of the trail from the intersection of Highways
37 and 121 to the Sonoma Baylands site on the Petaluma River. The California
Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will
reimburse the Conservancy with more than $2.2 million in grants for the
project. (January and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $162,000 to Sonoma Land Trust for design and
permitting necessary to remove three barriers to migration of steelhead trout
on Stuart Creek, a tributary of Sonoma Creek, and to construct a public parking
lot and trail to the creek. The project aims to restore 2.2 miles of
high-quality spawning and rearing habitat for the fish and enable people to
access the Land Trust’s 3½-acre Stuart Creek Run property near Glen Ellen.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $200,000 to PRBO Conservation Science for its
Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed (STRAW) Program to establish native
plants at the Hamilton Wetland Restoration Project in Novato. Much of the
150-acre project site was recently surfaced with large volumes of materials
dredged from San Francisco Bay to create seasonal wetlands. The project is
expected to involve 1,300 to 1,600 students and teachers from local schools,
and the plantings and subsequent monitoring will be incorporated into the
schools’ science programs. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the restoration of tidal wetlands at Bahia Lagoon in Novato. The project site
contains more than 400 acres of tidal and seasonal wetlands adjacent to oak
woodlands and other protected wildlife habitats. The restoration will greatly
expand habitats for fish, waterfowl, and other wildlife, and it follows the
first phase of restoration that was completed in 2009. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $2.6 million to the Marin Agricultural Land
Trust’s purchase of agricultural conservation easements over the 1,194-acre
Barboni Ranch in Hicks Valley north of Nicasio. The easements will support the
continued operation of the ranch’s grazing lands while protecting its natural
resources and wildlife habitats. MALT already held conservation easements on
neighboring properties, and this purchase resulted in a protected block of more
than 9,000 acres of farmland. The California Department of Transportation
contributed $1.6 million of the Conservancy’s funding. (March and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $263,000 to the Marin Resource Conservation
District to help ranchers reduce soil erosion and improve water quality and
wildlife habitat in the Tomales Bay watershed. The funding is supporting work
on two ranches, one along Walker Creek and the other east of Dillon Beach. The
work will conserve ranchland, prevent eroded sediment from entering creeks that
drain to Tomales Bay, and improve habitats for a wide variety of animals
including coho salmon, river otters, and mountain lions. The projects are part
of the RCD’s Conserving Our Watershed (COW) program, and they benefit from the
Marin Coastal Watersheds Permit Coordination Program, established with
Conservancy funding provided in 2001. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $300,000 to the Endangered Habitats Conservancy to
prepare a conceptual design for restoration of an abandoned gravel quarry on
the Russian River floodplain near Windsor. The aim of the project is to restore
the 357-acre Hanson Aggregates property to a complex of ponds, wetlands, and
forested areas that would serve as habitat for salmon and other fish and
wildlife and reduce the risk of downstream flooding. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $1.36 million to the City of Fort Bragg to build
more than four miles of trails, restore native vegetation, and purchase the
four-acre Soldier Point property for addition to Noyo Headlands Park on the
former Georgia-Pacific Mill site. The new Ka Kahleh Coastal Trail—an addition
to the California Coastal Trail—will enable the public to reach the majority of
the City’s coastline for the first time in generations. The funding will also
support the construction of parking areas and other visitor facilities.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $220,000 to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness
Council to construct two trails across the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness to
Sinkyone Wilderness State Park in the remote Lost Coast. The trails—one running
for about 1.2 miles and the other for about 0.5 miles—will provide inland links
from Usal County Road to the California Coastal Trail in the State Park.
Currently, the State Park can only be reached from its southern and northern
boundaries. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $79,000 to Save the Redwoods League for planning
and design of a new two-mile section of the California Coastal Trail on the
Usal-Shady Dell Creek Property in the Lost Coast. The new trail will extend
southward from the existing Lost Coast Trail in Sinkyone Wilderness State Park,
wind through the Trees of Mystery, cross Shady Dell Creek, and continue to the
rugged coastline. The 957-acre property was purchased by the League in 2011
largely with Conservancy funding. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">contributed $66,000 to the California Department of Parks
and Recreation’s purchase of the 65-acre Hunt property to add to the Inglenook
Fen-Ten Mile Dunes Natural Preserve in MacKerricher State Park north of Fort
Bragg. The property is a private inholding within the park that contains a
large block of relatively pristine coastal dunes, coastal prairie, and wetlands
along Ten Mile River. (December)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $60,000 to the Mendocino Land Trust to construct ¾
miles of the California Coastal Trail to Hare Creek Beach on the southern
boundary of Fort Bragg. The beach is now accessible only from an informal trail
that is unsigned and frequently missed by hikers on the Coastal Trail. The new
trail will connect to a parking area on Redwood Community College property and
lead southward to the beach. The land trust purchased the Hare Creek Beach
property in 2010 with Conservancy funding. (August)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $10,000 to the Moat Creek Managing Agency for its
continued operation and maintenance of a restroom, parking lot, and trails at
Moat Creek Beach and along the Moat Creek segment of the California Coastal
Trail south of Point Arena. The trails and facilities came about from an early
and successful Conservancy project to reduce the density of the Whiskey Shoals
subdivision west of Highway 1. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $250,000 to the Coastal Ecosystems Institute of
Northern California to prepare a sea level rise adaptation plan for the
Humboldt Bay Region. The plan will help the region’s communities develop and
employ strategies to protect environmental and economic resources in the face
of a changing climate. A working group convened through the County and the
Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation and Conservation District will oversee the
plan’s preparation. The Conservancy also awarded $85,000 to the Harbor District
to study the feasibility of using dredged materials to restore marshlands and
adapt to sea level rise around the bay. Materials dredged to clear shipping
channels, ports, and marinas have been invaluable for marshlands restoration
and shoreline protection in other areas—most notably San Francisco Bay.
(January and October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $224,000 to the Northcoast Regional Land Trust to
purchase the 20-acre Freshwater Farms Nursery on Freshwater Creek just east of
Eureka. The property adjoins 54 acres acquired by the land trust with
Conservancy funding in 2005 that have been improved for salmon and trout
habitat, agriculture, and public use. The new acquisition will allow expansion
of the tidal marsh restoration, continuation of a native plant nursery, and
extension of the neighboring site’s public trail. (January)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">provided $210,000 to the Salt River Watershed Council for
its purchase of the 23-acre Toste property on the Salt River near Ferndale.
About one-third of the property will be returned to the river’s active
floodplain and managed as part of the Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project.
Most of the property’s remainder will be dedicated to pasture or other farming uses,
and a public trail or roadway is planned for visitors to the river and
restoration site. The goals of the restoration project include improvements to
habitat for salmon, trout, and other wildlife, management of floodwaters, and
protection of the extensive farmland along the length of the river. (May)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $235,000 to the City of Arcata to restore 212
acres of the McDaniel Slough wetlands along Arcata Bay. The work will restore
tidal flows and migratory fish passage to former salt marsh and protect neighboring
properties with new levees that will be topped with public trails. The project
is the final step in a series of property acquisitions, planning, and
restoration of neighboring areas that began in 1998. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">granted $90,000 to the Redwood Community Action Agency to
prepare conceptual plans for a new section of the California Coastal Trail from
the south end of Scenic Drive near Moonstone Beach County Park to the south
bank of Little River at Little River State Beach. The new trail would close a
0.8-mile gap in the Coastal Trail that forces pedestrians and bicyclists onto
the edge Highway 101. (October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">awarded $2.35 million to the Crescent City Harbor District to
construct visitor-serving improvements, including a promenade around the Inner
Boat Basin, at the Crescent City Harbor. The improvements will include a new
½-mile section of the California Coastal Trail that will link the harbor to the
edge of downtown. The project is part of an effort to revitalize the City’s
harbor and encourage tourism, an important component of the local economy.
(October)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Coastal Conservancy serves all Californians and
visitors to the State who are interested in enjoying, improving, and protecting
the spectacular natural resources of the California coast and San Francisco
Bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Since its establishment in 1976, the Coastal Conservancy
has:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">completed more than 1,500 projects in every coastal county
and all nine San Francisco Bay Area counties, with hundreds more projects
currently active. These projects include construction of trails and other
public access facilities, restoration and enhancement of wetlands and other
wildlife habitat, protection of near-shore ocean waters, restoration of public
piers and urban waterfronts, preservation of farmland, and other projects in
line with the goals of California’s Coastal Act, the San Francisco Bay Plan,
the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy, and the California Ocean Protection
Act;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">helped preserve more than 300,000 acres of wetlands,
dunes, wildlife habitat, recreational lands, farmland, and scenic open space;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">helped build several hundreds of miles of accessways and
trails, including major portions of the California Coastal Trail and the San
Francisco Bay and Ridge Trails;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">assisted in the completion of more than 100 urban
waterfront projects, enabling local communities to reclaim waterfront
properties for recreational use and economic development;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">retired hundreds of lots in inappropriately planned
subdivisions throughout the coast, thereby preserving natural and scenic lands,
protecting farmland, and providing recreational opportunities;</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial;">joined in partnership endeavors with more than 100 local land
trusts and other nonprofit groups, making local community involvement an
integral part of the Coastal Conservancy’s work.</span><br />
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North Coast Project Links</h2>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2013/01/22/humboldt-bay-shoreline-inventory-mapping-and-sea-level-rise-vulnerability-assessment/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Humboldt Bay Shoreline Inventory, Mapping, and Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment">Humboldt Bay Shoreline Inventory, Mapping, and Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/06/10/dam-removal-projects-funded-by-the-coastal-conservancy/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy">Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/12/17/humboldt-bay-regional-invasive-spartina-control-and-native-marsh-restoration-planning/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Humboldt Bay Regional Invasive Spartina Control and Native Marsh Restoration Planning">Humboldt Bay Regional Invasive Spartina Control and Native Marsh Restoration Planning</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/the-california-coastal-trail/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to The California Coastal Trail">The California Coastal Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.sonoma.edu/preserves/prairie/resources/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">California's Coastal Prairies</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.scc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/north_coast/NorthCoastConservation.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Conservation Prospects for the North Coast – A report prepared by The Conservation Fund</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.westcoastebm.org/Humboldt_Bay_Initiative.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Humboldt Bay Initiative</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://humboldt-dspace.calstate.edu/xmlui/handle/2148/425/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">North Coast Marine Information System</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.pcjv.org/california/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pacific Coast Joint Venture Website</a></li>
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Central Coast Project Links</h2>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2013/01/09/thank-you-ocean-podcast-san-clemente-dam-removal-project/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Thank You Ocean Podcast: San Clemente Dam Removal Project">Thank You Ocean Podcast: San Clemente Dam Removal Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/09/06/morro-bay-port-san-luis-commercial-fisheries-business-plan/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Morro Bay-Port San Luis Commercial Fisheries Business Plan">Morro Bay-Port San Luis Commercial Fisheries Business Plan</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/09/06/piedras-blancas-motel-feasibility-study-and-reuse-alternatives/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Piedras Blancas Motel Feasibility Study And Reuse Alternatives">Piedras Blancas Motel Feasibility Study And Reuse Alternatives</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/06/10/dam-removal-projects-funded-by-the-coastal-conservancy/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy">Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/06/01/big-sur-coastal-trail-master-planning/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Big Sur Coastal Trail Master Planning">Big Sur Coastal Trail Master Planning</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/san-clemente-dam-removal-project/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Carmel River Reroute and San Clemente Dam Removal Project">Carmel River Reroute and San Clemente Dam Removal Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/the-california-coastal-trail/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to The California Coastal Trail">The California Coastal Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://iwrp.rcdsantacruz.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Integrated Watershed Restoration Program for Santa Cruz County</a></li>
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South Coast Project Links</h2>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/06/10/dam-removal-projects-funded-by-the-coastal-conservancy/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy">Dam Removal Projects Funded by the Coastal Conservancy</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/11/10/san-diego-river-tributary-canyons-project-feasibility-report/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to San Diego River Tributary Canyons Project — Feasibility Report">San Diego River Tributary Canyons Project — Feasibility Report</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/08/12/san-diego-port-district-commercial-fisheries-revitalization-plan/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to San Diego Port District Commercial Fisheries Revitalization Plan">San Diego Port District Commercial Fisheries Revitalization Plan</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/tijuana-estuary-sediment-study/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Tijuana Estuary Sediment Study">Tijuana Estuary Sediment Study</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/ormond-beach-wetlands-restoration-project/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Ormond Beach Wetlands Restoration Project">Ormond Beach Wetlands Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/01/07/the-california-coastal-trail/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to The California Coastal Trail">The California Coastal Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.santamonicabay.org/smbay/ProgramsProjects/HabitatRestorationProject/BallonaWetlandsRestoration/tabid/149/Default.aspx" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ballona Wetlands Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.caltsheets.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="A regional assessment of the relative distribution and abundance of different wetland habitat types along the historical Southern California coastline.">Mapping the Historical Wetlands of the Southern California Coast</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.santaclarariverparkway.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Santa Clara River Parkway</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/sandiegorefuges/Western%20Salt%20Ponds%20Restoration%20Project3.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">South San Diego Bay Wetlands Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.scwrp.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project</a></li>
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San Francisco Bay Area Project Links</h2>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/01/27/san-francisco-bay-subtidal-habitat-goals-project/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Revealing the Hidden Bay: Scientific Coalition Releases San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Report">Revealing the Hidden Bay: Scientific Coalition Releases San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Report</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2011/01/27/trio-of-habitat-goals-completed-for-9-county-bay-area/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to Trio of Habitat Goals Completed for 9 County Bay Area">Trio of Habitat Goals Completed for 9 County Bay Area</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://scc.ca.gov/2010/07/30/san-francisco-bay-area-water-trail/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link to San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail">San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.baeccc.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bay Area Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ridgetrail.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bay Area Ridge Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.dutchslough.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dutch Slough Wetland Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://hamiltonwetlands.scc.ca.gov/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hamilton Wetlands Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.spartina.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Invasive Spartina Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.napa-sonoma-marsh.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Napa – Sonoma Marsh Restoration Project</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://baytrail.abag.ca.gov/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">San Francisco Bay Trail</a></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.southbayrestoration.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1f70a7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">South Bay Salt Ponds</a></li>
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The map below is the beginning of an effort to identify, map, and provide video and text narratives discussing each decision. Additionally, important battles to protect the coast of California prior to the passage of the California Coastal Act of 1976 are also included.:<br />
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The following actions were identified in Commission evaluation scorecards over the past decade as important issues concerning public access and protection of the coast:<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Naval Training Center, San Diego</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">: Upon abandonment of the NTC, and despite objection
from San Diego environmental groups, the Commission approved a plan by the City
of San Diego to allow for significant private residential, resort and
commercial development of the NTC, rather than pursue open space, habitat
protection and public access for this public property. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ballona Lagoon Enhancement:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Over the objection of numerous environmental groups,
the Commission accepted plans for dredging the lagoon and landscaping and
fencing on the west part of the lagoon neither consistent with nor desirable
for native habitat and saltwater marsh organisms. (Note: This decision was
later invalidated following judicial review). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Malibu LCP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
In a very close 5-5 vote, the Commission voted to keep ESHA protections in the
Malibu LCP and to prevent expansion of local community baseball fields into
native habitat on an existing state park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Monarch Village, Santa Cruz:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted to allow a new 206-unit
apartment complex to be built on 9.3 acres of land in Santa Cruz adjacent to
Moore Creek with inadequate wetlands buffers threatening long-term water
quality in Younger Lagoon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Watsonville High School:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a development plan by the
City for a new high school on prime agricultural lands adjacent to sensitive
wetlands without considering that available, less environmentally damaging
locations were readily available. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sea World Expansion, Mission Bay, San Diego</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> : In siding with a beer company seeking to construct
an amusement park with 100-foot high thrill rides, the Commission chose to
ignore height limits in the LCP, along with the need to protect public coastal
resources located on public park lands which were leased originally to
establish a marine educational facility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Opal Cliffs:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Finding that the homes were not sufficiently threatened, the Commission denied
a series of three seawalls in Santa Cruz, thereby protecting the public beach
from concrete and rocks, and protecting scenic visual qualities of the beach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">La Playa San Simeon Sea Wall:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Finding no evidence of a threat to three condominium
buildings, the Commission denied a previously constructed unpermitted rock
seawall covering the public beach, thereby insuring its removal and
facilitating restoration of public sandy beach resources and public access. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">James Tunnel, Carmel:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission denied a request to hollow out a
cliff and drill a tunnel underneath an existing home to provide for private
beach access to a Carmel mansion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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addressing continuing Coast Act violations and environmental damage in Del Mar.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">SD Sewer Waiver:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted to protect ocean water quality and swimmers by
denying San Diego’s long-polluting and inadequate sewer treatment facilities at
Pt. Loma and to require that they be upgraded to secondary stage levels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">SB Airport Expansion:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted, in direct violation of the
Coastal Act, to allow an unnecessary airport expansion project in wetlands at
the Goleta Slough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hartunian (LA):</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission failed to revoke a building permit that allowed a tennis
court on a designated open space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">B+K Monterey:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted to allow housing development in ESHA in Del Monte
dunes area on the Monterey Peninsula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North Shore Mandalay:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a massive housing project
adjacent to wetlands and in extremely sensitive habitat area in Oxnard
containing near-extinct plants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oceano Dunes Permit:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Despite decades of explicit, extreme and ongoing
Coastal Act violations and violations of state and federal endangered species
laws, the Commission failed to take action against, or even slightly curtail,
unlimited dune buggy riding and camping in the sand dunes in San Luis Obispo,
where Snowy Plovers and other endangered birds and animals live. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">* In this instance the
Commission failed to take action on this after a lengthy hearing. Not a single
Commissioner put forward a motion to address this important issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Manchester Resort:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission denied a request by developers to construct 12- story
resort towers, close public streets, eliminate public use and beach access, and
convert public beach and public facilities into a private luxury resort in
Oceanside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CALTRANS Route 90:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission granted a permit to build a bridge and highway extension
through wetlands in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">South County Housing:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a 48-unit apartment complex,
partially on public land in a public park in Pacific Grove, Monterey County. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Monroe Sea Cave, Solana Beach:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission denied a permit to fill in a sea cave
and also turned down applications for seawall construction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Carpentaria LCP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved an LCP with strong seawall prohibitions and
public access provisions, and denied a request to rezone agricultural land for
residential condominium development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Army Fort Ord:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission denied a request to remove a crumbling building and
unsightly rock seawall on the public beach at Stilwell Hall, Fort Ord, Monterey
County, thereby missing an opportunity to restore the beach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pacifica Revetment:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a giant 700-foot long unnecessary rock seawall
covering over 32,000-square feet of public beach simply because the City of
Pacifica (San Mateo County) claimed to have only enough money to build the
wall, not to remove it. The Commission failed to even obtain assurances that
the City would build no further seawalls. Note: The City subsequently built
similar unpermitted “emergency” seawalls on this same stretch of beach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sea World Expansion,
Mission Bay San Diego:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission approved a permit for a 95- foot tall thrill
ride, commercial concessions, and privatization of 5.5 acres of public park and
wetlands related to conversion of a public marine educational facility to a
private amusement park owned by a beer company. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bruce Cease and Desist
Order:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In
supporting coastal protection, the Commission issued an order requiring removal
of an illegal seawall in Encinitas, San Diego County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">San Diego Sewer Reversal:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Bowing to political
pressure including the removal of Coastal Commissioner Patricia McCoy, the
Commission reversed itself and abandoned protection of water quality in San
Diego voting instead to allow San Diego to continue to its decades-long
practice of not complying with the Clean Water Act by refusing to upgrade local
sewage treatment to secondary levels. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Malibu LCP Pt. Dume:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In a pair of critical
votes related to protection of environmentally sensitive habitat (ESHA) in
Malibu, the Commission first narrowly defeated an effort by several
Commissioners and the City to eliminate all ESHA protections in the City of
Malibu; then, in a failed attempt to appease the City, the Commission voted to
allow crucial habitat in the Pt. Dume area of the City to be destroyed by
future development. To date the City has refused to implement its LCP. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sea Colony Seawall, Half Moon Bay:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Coastal Commission approved a cease and desist
order against Ocean Colony Partners and their Half Moon Bay Golf Links,
ordering instead that an illegal riprap seawall in front of a golf hole
adjacent to the luxury Ritz resort hotel be removed and that the public beach
and beach access be restored. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Continuance on Chair:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In an unprecedented Commission vote (7-5), seven
Commissioners voted to delay a routine decision to re-elect the Commission
Chair, resulting in an effort by developers to undermine the independence of
the Commission. Although public interest advocate and Chairwoman Sara Wan was
subsequently removed, developers failed as moderates Mike Reilly and Dr.
William Burke were elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, at the
Commission’s December 2002 meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sea Turtle Resolution:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a historic resolution
promoting sea turtle conservation in California. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Arnold & Miller:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved an order directing San Mateo
property owners to remove a fence blocking an easement and public beach access
trail, which the owners had illegally blocked for 17 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hellman Ranch:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved an order to require development of a Seal Beach
subdivision stop until a satisfactory mitigation plan was developed to deal
with discovery of Native American remains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">BLM South Spit:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission approved a management plan by the Bureau of Land
Management for the South Spit of Humboldt Bay and added a condition ordering
that no vehicles be allowed on the beach during Snowy Plover nesting season. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Arco Dos Pueblos:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> After more than a decade of struggle, the Coastal Commission voted
unanimously to protect the Gaviota Coast from a proposed golf course
development along a mile of undeveloped Santa Barbara coastline, and in the
process protected habitat for numerous endangered species, including White
Tailed Kites, Monarch Butterflies, and Red-Legged Frogs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Morro Bay Power Plant:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted unanimously to require that dry
cooling systems be used in the Morro Bay Power Plant upgrade (San Luis Obispo)
after hearing evidence from studies showing that the existing once-through
cooling system is destroying the entire Morro Bay estuary every three days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gualala and Albion River Water Export Plan, Mendicino
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted
unanimously to protest a plan to divert large amounts of winter water river
runs to support suburban sprawl in Southern California. The plan, which would
have destroyed Northcoast rivers and fisheries, involved using barges and giant
plastic bags to capture river water and tug it for sale in Southern California.
The project was abandoned following the Commission’s objection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">CalTrans Ballona Creek
Bridge, Los Angeles.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In denying a plan to demolish an existing historic art deco
bridge over Ballona Creek, the Commission sided with environmentalists who
sought to protect the bridge and wetlands below. CalTrans had sought to replace
the historic bridge with a larger 4-lane bridge, thereby enlarging Lincoln
Boulevard (Hwy #1) in order to accommodate future traffic increases. In denying
the project the Commission not only protected the historic bridge and wetlands,
but also found that under the Coastal Act roadway expansion projects can only
be approved in cases where the highway expansion is necessary to meet existing
traffic congestion, and that road expansion projects may not, as a rule, be
constructed merely to facilitate future development of the coast. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">La Jolla Community Plan
& LCP update:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission voted 7-3 to deny a proposal to weaken the proposed La
Jolla LCP and allow seawalls for blufftop development set back 30-ft or more.
As a result, all new coastside development in La Jolla must now avoid use of
seawalls in the future. Following the vote on seawalls the Commission unanimously
voted to approve an improved LCP for La Jolla that will protect steep
hillsides, natural areas and mansionization of the coastal terrace. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Beach Restaurant, Santa
Barbara:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
The Commission approved an after-the-fact permit for an illegal 115-ft timber
seawall that filled in over 10-ft of Mission Creek in order to allow for
expansion of a private restaurant and hotel. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nuclear Reactor Haul, San Onofre,
San Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In one of the most disappointing votes of the year, the Commission
voted 7-5 to allow San Diego Gas & Electric Co. to use a 192-wheeled
tractor to haul a 1,000-ton radioactive nuclear reactor core 14 miles up a
State Beach and across wetlands and 14 separate creeks, drainages and
endangered species habitat. Edison proposed the beach haul because the company
was too cheap to purchase insurance required for train transport. Postscript:
the nuclear haul has never been completed due to numerous environmental
constraints and international opposition (the core was to be shipped through
the Panama Canal, and, when that was denied, around Cape Horn). </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Scism Seawall, Solana
Beach, San Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Failing to establish a strategic plan to prevent further
seawall development in Solana Beach, the Commission voted to approve a 35-ft
high, 50-ft long upper bluff-armoring device including nine 35-ft deep caissons
designed to artificially prolong the life of a bluffside home. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Arco Golf Course, Gaviota,
Santa Barbara Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Following the Commission’s denial in Dec. ‘02 of the proposal to
convert a coastal ranch and a mile of beachfront to a golf course, the
Commission again voted unanimously to reject the developer’s attempt to
resurrect the project on reconsideration. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Oceano Dunes State Beach,
San Luis Obispo Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Appalled at the continued harassment and killing of
endangered Western Snowy Plovers by off-highway vehicle (OHV) riders at Oceano,
the Commission ignored the advice of both their staff and the Attorney General,
and voted 7-1 to “ask” that State Parks put up greater amounts of “plover
survival patch” fencing to keep dune buggy drivers from running over the
diminutive, near extinct birds. To date State Parks has refused to protect the
birds or provide greater fencing security, which would limit the area in which OHV’s
drive, and the Commission remains too timid to do anything about it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Veneco, Santa Barbara Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In approving a proposal to
extend the life of a negligible, dilapidated pier and oil facility, the
Commission allowed repair of a dirt access road and the addition of 645 tons of
rock to an ancient seawall located on a public beach in Goleta, (State Lease
421). </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">SeaWorld, San Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Finding that pavement is
no way to remediate a toxic waste dump, the Commission denied a proposal by
SeaWorld to construct a 1,353 spot parking lot on Mission Bay, San Diego. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Horizon Seabright, Grover
Beach, San Luis Obispo Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In seeking to protect ESHA adjacent to Pismo Lake, the
Commission denied a proposal to divide a .98-acre parcel in order to build a
second home. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">West Cliff Drive Path
Widening, Santa Cruz Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Finding the City of Santa Cruz seriously delinquent in
efforts to protect against further seawall proliferation along West Cliff
Drive, the Commission voted to deny a proposal to enlarge an existing bike path
along the bluffs. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Mt. Holyoke, Pacific
Palisades, Los Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Supporting public coastal and views, the Commission denied
a proposal by Mt. Holyoke Homes to divide a 1-acre lot into three residential
lots at 425 Mt. Holyoke Avenue. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Destination Development,
Long Pt., Palos Verdes, Los Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In one of the worst decisions of the entire year,
the Commission failed even to require a full public hearing in approving,
without improvement, a massive new luxury resort in Palos Verdes for 582 room
resort (400 hotel rooms, 50 three-keyed “casitas”, and 32 “villas”,) golf
practice facility, club house, conference center, restaurants, related
commercial uses at 6610 Palos Verdes Drive (former Marine Land Park). In their
haste the Commission missed a significant opportunity protect and restore coastal
sage scrub habitat and instead condoned a mini-golf course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A.V.P Manhattan Beach, Los
Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
The Commission abandoned a longtime standard by allowing the Association Of
Volleyball Professionals (A.V.P.) to sell preferred seating on the public beach
for a volleyball tournament. By allowing a private sporting event on public
beach to take over public coastal resources for private gain, the Commission
set an adverse precedent. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Luers Barn, Santa Cruz Co.</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In approving a
commercial/residential project too large for the site, the Commission failed to
require any buffer to ESHA riparian habitat onsite, in direct violation of the
Coastal Act and the Santa Cruz LCP. Postscript: Pursuant to a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sierra
Club legal challenge, this approval was invalidated February 2005. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Surfsong, Solana Beach, San
Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
The Commission erred in allowing Surfsong Condominium Homeowners Association to
construct 120-ft-long 35-ft-high concrete seawall and a 342 linear feet of
notch and sea cave fills, on the public beach below 72 condominiums, at 205-245
South Helix Avenue. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Oly Mandalay, Oxnard,
Ventura Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Over the objection of the Beacon Foundation & Sierra Club, the Commission
approved (without allowing a full public hearing) “Seabridge,” a project on
135-acres of prime agricultural soils that converts the farm to channels,
waterways, streets and pavement to allow construction of 708 homes (276
single-family homes, 42 multi-family homes, and 390 homes in visitor-serving
& mixed use designations); 169,000 sq.ft. of commercial floor area on 35
acres; 16.5 acres of recreational land uses; 32.2 acres of open water; 503 boat
slips (241 public & 235 private); public trail system (10,755 feet of
lateral access and 3,841 feet of vertical access); on west side of Victoria
Avenue, between Wooley Road & Hemlock Street. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
In delaying action on a request by A.J. Perenchio for after-the-fact approval
of an unpermitted 10-acre private golf course, the Commission provided time and
support for Perenchio’s subsequent decision to donate the property to
California Dept. State Parks, a gift valued in excess of $20 million. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monterey Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
In supporting their enforcement program and staff, the Commission took positive
action to require removal a private, unpermitted three-hole golf course in
conflict with terms and conditions of a previously issued Coastal Permit
designed to protect sensitive habitat at 3145 Seventeen Mile Drive. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Beach, San Luis Obispo Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Proposal for a 165-ft long, 11-ft high seawall on public
beach approved by the Commission despite the fact the home was brand new,
permit conditions for setbacks were ignored and construction of house itself
contributed to dramatic erosion, at 121 & 125 Indio Drive. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adjacent residents, Commission approved project to reinterpret annual testing
requirements for SC Harbor to allow fine-grained sediments to be dumped in nearshore
ocean waters, where it contacts swimmers and migrates up onto public beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Santa Cruz Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission approved findings for a development despite it’s being
explicitly inconsistent with LCP requirements for a buffer area and protection
of ESHA-riparian habitat onsite. UTV= Unable To Vote (only Commissioners
prevailing in the initial vote can vote on findings. Postscript: In February
2005 this project was invalidated as a result of a Sierra Club lawsuit. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zone”:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Commission conditioned LCP to protect against proliferation of condos, which
angered developers, in an area generally bounded by Helena Ave., Highway 101,
Garden St. and Cabrillo Blvd. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Supporting San Diego BayKeeper, the Commission facilitated approval of the
first organic golf course in California. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mateo Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
In approving a request by Shoreview Homeowners to repair and maintain existing
quarry stone revetment seawall, at 154 to 220 Shoreview Avenue, Pacifica, San
Mateo County, the Commission allowed private homeowners to cover a public
beach, and failed to consider or require less environmentally damaging
alternatives. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Santa Barbara Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In approving a new home and ignoring the Carpinteria Creek Foundation,
the Commission failed to protect neighborhood community character and sensitive
habitat at corner of Carpinteria Avenue, Arbol Verde Street, and Concha Loma
Drive. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Over the objection of neighbors, the Commission approved a 3-story, 44-room
hotel, restaurant and outdoor dining terrace and 85 parking spaces, on .51-acre
oceanfront site, at 4551 Ocean Boulevard, in a very crowded, very congested
area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Diego Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
In a positive vote, the Commission acted to protect beach access and remediate
a decade old public access obstruction erected by adjacent restaurants, in
which the businesses had used a public access path for restaurant seating, at
2530 South Highway 101. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Newport Senior Housing, Newport Beach, Orange Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a proposal to build 120-units of senior
affordable housing (along with 146 parking spaces, pool & patio, Wetlands
Restoration & Detention Basin & Pond area (on lower part), and public
passive park (on upper part), with 38,162 cu.yds. of grading), on 15-acre site,
at northwest corner of Coast Highway & Jamboree Road, the Commission sided
with developers, voting to allow a portion of the housing on wetlands, in
violation of the Coastal Act, which eliminated the potential for wetlands
restoration in an area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Caltrans, Los Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission permitted wetlands destruction for a
Route 90 roadway expansion project. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Harrington & Lynch, Malibu, Ventura Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In an effort to protect coastal resources, the
Commission supported an enforcement action against Elizabeth Harrington and
William Lynch, owners of 42500 Pacific Coast Highway, to remove unpermitted
development including a seawall/planter, retaining wall, fence with shade
fabric and landscaping that blocked ocean views. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pleasure Point Seawall, Santa Cruz Co: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">To protect a world famous surfing beach and
significant coastal resources, the Commission voted unanimously to deny a
proposal by US Corps of Engineers and the County of Santa Cruz, for a bluff
high 1,100 foot long seawall (from 33rd to 36th Ave.) at East Cliff Drive, Live
Oak beach area of Santa Cruz. Postscript: Subsequent to the Commission’s
denial, the County of Santa Cruz issued itself an emergency permit and built a
portion of the seawall, ignoring the Commission and badly damaging the
reputation of the County. Eventually, the County will be required to process a
legal permit on the project, at which time the Commission may require the
seawall be removed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Weber, Bolinas, Marin Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In a decision to Tomales
Bay allow removal of 153-cu.yds. of materials & rock debris and permit
construction of a fence, and maintaince two drainage ditches next to Bolinas
Lagoon at 95 Olema-Bolinas Road and 850 Lauff Road, Bolinas, the Commission
ignored wetlands protection issues raised by the Tomales Bay Association. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bren-Haley, Malibu, Los
Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Unconcerned about habitat protection, the Commission approved a 4,838 sq.ft.
35-ft-high single-family home, a 512 sq.ft. attached garage, a 968 sq.ft. detached
structure (506 sq.ft. guest house with 462 sq.ft. garage below), a 250 sq.ft.
detached cabana, pool, deck, a 20-ft-wide driveway, septic system, water tank,
and 16,761 cu.yds. of grading, at 25858 Mulholland Highway. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Kay, Santa Monica
Mountains, Los Angeles Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In an effort to protect environmentally sensitive habitat,
the Commission approved an order requiring cessation of illegal work, grading
and development and restoration of habitat at Panorama Ranch, next to and north
of Castro Motorway. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dana Point Headlands, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In voting 9-3 to allow development of a resort on
one of Southern California’s last open coastal promontories, and a 2000-ft long
seawall on Strands Beach solely to facilitate construction of new luxury homes,
the Commission ignored their staff and numerous Coastal Act policies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kwiatkowski, Pacific Grove, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In voting 6-5 to approve construction of a home in
Pacific Grove, the Commission allowed the developer to ignore Coastal Act
policies requiring that development be set back of environmentally sensitive
habitat areas (ESHA), in this case, Monterey Pine trees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Seabridge, Oxnard, Ventura County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In adopting findings for a massive housing and
marina development, the Commission ignored evidence that a children’s swimming
area proposed to be located within the new harbor would be contaminated and
would make children sick, and approved it anyway, despite evidence that the
developer would have no legal or financial obligation to insure safe water quality
parameters. UTV= Unable To Vote (only Commissioners on the prevailing side on
the original vote can vote on the findings). Postscript: The “swim area”
condition was eventually deleted by the Commission after arguments by project
opponents were finally accepted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Goleta Beach Seawall, Santa Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a “temporary” 2-year 600-ft seawall to
protect the lawn area of a county park, the Commission ignored a Coastal Act
prohibition against seawalls for such purposes, and allowed a permanent seawall
under the guise of a temporary project. Postscript: As of Feb. 2005 the wall
has not been removed, but instead enlarged to over 1,000-ft, with no legitimate
environmental or Coastal Act review of any kind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fence, San Diego County: In defending rare and endangered species habitat and
wetlands located along the US-Mexico border, the Commission unanimously denied
a proposal by the US Federal Government to construct a series of three fences,
a paved road and clear habitat the width of a six-lane freeway, from the ocean
inland for miles, in an attempt to reduce illegal immigration. The Commission
found there were numerous other ways to build an effective barrier reduce
without destroying the coast and coastal habitat. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Sea World Revocation,
Mission Bay, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In allowing the amusement park to expand, the Commission
ignored the case presented by California Earth Corps that the site on which the
expansion is being built is a well known historic toxic waste dump. The
Commission refused to revoke Sea World’s permits despite evidence that Sea
World had deliberately failed to divulge damaging information regarding the
hazardous waste dump, and despite the fact that Sea World still refuses to
provide toxics information to the Commission. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Boating Instruction &
Safety Center (BISC), Ventura Harbor:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> On a 6-4 vote, the Commission upheld the Ventura
Harbor Plan in voting to deny a development that would replace a public lawn
and picnic area, including trees hosting a variety of birds, and the fact that
the new commercial boating center would send novice sailors into an adjacent
dangerous, congested large boat thoroughfare </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Trento, Malibu, Los Angeles
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> As
a follow-up to an earlier approval allowing construction of a mansion and guest
house on top of an important Chumash archeological site, the Commission allowed
further destruction of the cultural site and coastal resources in approving a
7,200-sq. ft. tennis court. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Kay, Panorama Ranch, Santa
Monica Mountains:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In denying an after-the-fact permit for construction of roads, building
pads and destruction of ESHA habitat on Castro Peak, the Commission found that
the unpermitted work was unacceptable and would have to be removed and the
mountain habitat restored. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Obispo County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In voting to send a letter to State Parks, the Commission supported
efforts by environmentalists to try to convince State Parks to take minimal
steps to stop the desecration of endangered species coastal dune habitat from
off road vehicle (OHV) use at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreational Area (SVRA).
Postscript: Although the Commission did send the letter, State Parks has so far
refused to formally acknowledge or accept scientific research showing expanded
protected areas would better safeguard snowy plovers, least terns and other
plants and animals trying to survive amidst thousands of dune buggies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Luis Obispo County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In denying a motion for revocation (on a 4-3 vote) brought
by the City of Moro Bay, the Commission sided with sister agency State Parks
and allowed for a eucalyptus forest containing endangered species to be cut and
cleared to allow paving to convert a car and tent camping area to a cement RV
camping area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Permits, Southern California:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In voting 7-0 against an attempt by US EPA to issue
weakened discharge permits to offshore oil operations, the Commission acted to
insure that legitimate discharge permits would be adopted that would protect
California coastal waters, fisheries and swimmers against a variety of toxic,
hazardous chemicals the companies were hoping to discharge into ocean waters.
Postscript: As a result of the Commission’s action, and a lawsuit by
environmentalists against EPA, stronger, more protective discharge permits have
now been issued to the offshore oil derrick operators. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& Hotel Seawall, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In abandoning their mandate to protect public
beaches, the Commission voted to give away a public beach in order to then vote
to approve a 600-ft long seawall for the Monterey Beach Hotel, a private luxury
seaside resort in Monterey County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Schneider, Harmony Coast, San Luis Obispo County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In significantly revising a proposal for an
oceanfront home on 40-acres, the Commission voted to protect ocean views and
habitat by decreasing the size of the home and significantly decreasing the
length of the entrance road needed by moving the home inland. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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retail commercial project overlooking Moro Bay Harbor, the Commission sided
with local residents, businesses and environmentalists in protecting coastal
views, public parking and visitor-serving uses in Moro Bay Harbor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Voting to allow a 100-foot tall amusement ride, the
Commission chose to ignore the project’s impacts on public coastal views and
noise and night light impacts upon the adjacent San Lorenzo River and estuary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cruz County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
The Commission acted to protect the public beach by denying a claim for vested
rights (VRC) that would have allowed an unpermitted seawall comprised of rip-rap
rocks to remain on the beach below Black’s house. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Del Norte County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> On scant evidence the Commission allowed additional rock excavation on
the Smith River on a claim that the additional excavation would promote
fisheries restoration, 1.5 miles downstream from Dr. Fine/Highway 101 Bridge,
Smith River, Del Norte County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newport Beach, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> On a 6-4 vote, the Commission undermined enforcement of
Coastal Act violations in finding that structures on the beach belonging to
McNamee were illegal, but that McNamee could leave the structures on the public
beach for years into the future while he makes subsequent permit applications
to try to legalize the illegal structures. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bel Air Bay Club, Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In siding with a private luxury oceanfront club, and
permitting the applicant to expand facilities and realign a seawall, the
Commission allowed public views of the coast to be adversely impacted and the
public beach to continue to be misappropriated by the Club. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mello, Mendocino County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a new blufftop oceanfront home, the
Commission failed to insure an existing public accessway, which is already of
eroding, by permanently the trail via a floating trail easement. Instead, as
the bluff erodes, the public access trail in front of the home will eventually
disappear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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positively to deny a request to re-divide two lots (34.5 and 0.16- acres into
14.8 & 19.8-acres) that would have resulted in additional development
rights and entitlements adjacent to Corral Canyon Road, in the small lot
subdivision at Searidge Drive, an area of sensitive environmental resources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Redland Company, Del Norte County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In allowing Redland Company to divide 9.4- acres
into 4 lots, at 145 Redland Lane, Smith River, the Commission unnecessarily
permitted new development entitlements in an area of sensitive environmental
resources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Bolsa Chica, Huntington
Beach, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> THIS DECISION WAS NOT COUNTED FOR PURPOSES OF THE VOTING
CHART SINCE THE COMMISSION DID NOT ACTUALLY VOTE (THE DEVELOPER- HEARTHSIDE
HOMES- WITHDREW THE PROJECT BEFORE THE COMMISSION COULD DENY THE PROJECT).
However, we include the decision here in order to highlight it, as it involves
one of the last, most significant wetlands in southern California. In addition,
the Commission was </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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explicit in its criticism of a giant proposal to build 379-houses adjacent and
within wetland and forest ESHA. Our conservation analysis, therefore, was based
upon the written record of the meeting. Only Commissioners Potter & Neely
voiced support for and moved for approval of the development. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Iseman, who is from Orange County, failed to join other Commissioners on the
record opposing the project. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Once again the Commission denied a proposal to subdivide a 1-acre cliffside
in an attempt to develop three homes, finding that public views of the ocean
would be lost and the development of homes on an unstable cliff above a public
park would likely create a dangerous nuisance. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Monte Beach, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In the first vote related to this proposal to build a
600-ft long seawall on Del Monte Beach to protect condos predating the Coastal
Act, the Commission denied a motion by Commissioner Potter to dedicate
mitigation funds to planning, rather than acquisition of new public beach for
recreation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Harbor House Seawall #2, Del
Monte Beach, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In the second vote related to this seawall project the
Commission voted to increase a suggested mitigation fee of $1 million to $5.3
million dollars (the highest seawall mitigation ever required in California),
finding that anything less would be useless inasmuch as no new meaningful
public beach could be acquired with the lesser amount. (*denotes the vote of
alternate Commissioner Edward Albert, who opposed any seawall of any type,
regardless of the size of the mitigation fund, and therefore will be counted as
a positive vote in the final vote tally). </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Los Angeles World Airports Expansion (LAX), Los
Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a plan
to dramatically expand Los Angeles Airport over the next two decades, the
Commission missed an opportunity to promote restoration of coastal dune scrub
habitat and require that buckwheat be planted at areas to be abandoned in order
to attract the rare and endangered Hermosa Blue Butterfly. Only 3 Commissioners
supported the habitat motion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Doyle, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving an oceanfront residential expansion
project, the Commission ignored pleas from the public and feasible alternatives
and instead approved an expansion of the home that will block public views from
inland streets used by tens of thousands of people weekly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hendrick, Encinitas, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a large home near the beach, the
Commission failed to provide concerned neighbors with a full public hearing,
instead approving the 5,000 sq. ft., two- story blufftop house at 736 Fouth
Street by finding that substantial issues were present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sunridge Views, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In denying this project, the Commission supported an
appeal by Friends, Artists and Neighbors of Elkhorn Slough and LandWatch
Monterey County, who were opposed to a proposal to divide 25-acres into
10-residential lots and convert an existing strawberry farm to houses, at 250
Maher Road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reed, Del Norte County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Ignoring evidence of bald eagles on this property,
the Commission denied an appeal by Friends of Del Norte and approved
construction of an RV park on the north side of Buzzini Road, off Lake Earl
Drive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pauli, Mendocino County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Some Commissioners sought on behalf of Pauli to
delete conditions recommended by coastal staff regarding the siting of a
proposed house in order to minimize view blockage and maximize habitat
protection, at 45100 Chapman Road, Chapman Point, just south of the town of
Mendocino. Fortunately, the effort failed on a 5-5 vote of the Commission. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Ellwood Shores Park &
Housing, Goleta, Santa Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Concluding a process initiated by the Commission over
a decade earlier, environmentalists and developers were able to work
cooperatively with the County to dramatically reduce a housing development,
move the entire project inland and insure permanent protection of ESHA
resources along the Goleta coastline. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Parkstone Company, Oxnard
Shores, Ventura County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In a very poor decision, the Commission voted 8-1 to
approve a zoning change to allow a 1-acre sand dune with native vegetation to
be converted from “resource protection” to “single-family residential” to allow
9-homes to be built, in the City of Oxnard, where the LCP recognizes no ESHA
whatsoever. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Santa Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In a positive vote, the Commission voted 7-2 to find substantial
issue and require further hearings on a plan to eliminate 3,000 free streetside
public beach access parking spaces in order to create a
residential-preferential parking program in the 1-sq. mile, heavily overcrowded
UCSB student community. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">La Jolla Swim Buoys, San
Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
On a very close 5-4 vote, the Commission voted against public access and
approved a vested rights claim (VRC) for the City of San Diego that allows the
private luxury La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club to continue to place buoys
offshore of the hotel in order to create a private swimming area. Note:
litigation has been initiated by Sierra Club to insure a proper coastal permit
process is undertaken for this development. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Brown, Cambria, San Luis
Obispo County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Siding with a luxury home developer, the Commission ignored their staff
and approved a land division to create 3 lots from 2 that will allow additional
development and roads within environmentally sensitive (ESHA) Monterey Pine
tree forest habitat. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Hoff, Newport Beach, Orange
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In
an effort to protect coastal resources and the public beach, the Commission
required a residential development to be set back 25-ft from the bluff edge,
and refused to continue the matter. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Arco, Santa Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission erred in
ignoring the concerns of Santa Barbara Co., SB’s Environmental Defense Center
and Sierra Club in approving a request by Arco Oil Co. and Halliburton Company
to use explosives and blow up an existing offshore oil platform in order to
then build and (hopefully) restore an important offshore bird roosting habitat.
The project could have easily been accomplished without allowing Halliburton
Co. to blow up the California Coast. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunridge Views, Monterey
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
The Commission denied a request to reconsider an earlier decision denying a
proposal to convert a 25-acre strawberry farm to 10 luxury mansions, in the
Elkhorn Slough watershed area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Seascape Shores, Solana Beach,
San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission approved a notch fill and upper bluff seawall structure
with inadequate mitigation and protection of the public beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ballona Lagoon Enhancement,
Venice, Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Bowing to pressure from adjacent neighbors trying to
eliminate public access, the Commission voted to eliminate public viewpoints and
move a trail. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Landon, Venice, Los Angeles
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> On
an 8-3 vote, the Commission allowed an ultra-modern style home, much larger
than neighbors, in a Venice Beach walkstreet area consisting of small cottage
style homes. The Commission’s failure to protect the walkstreet’s “special
community character” opens the door for demolition and replacement of the
cottage homes with new style larger houses. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">BISC, Channel Islands
Harbor, Ventura County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Ignoring the fact that a proposed Boating Instruction &
Safety Center (BISC) building will be up against trees with Knight Crown Heron
nests, without any buffers whatsoever, and ignoring the fact that the a much
safer, preferable alternative location for the BISC was exists on the east side
of the harbor, the Commission instead sought to please Ventura County
Supervisors and developers by voting to approve the BISC on the west side of
the harbor, on top of a much used, free, grass picnic area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Crescent Heights, San Diego
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> On
a 7-4 vote the Commission approved an LCP amendment allowing housing with
protection for ESHA, defeating an amending motion that would have allowed ESHA
destruction under the guise of “fire clearance.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Maxwell, Santa Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In voting to hear an appeal of a subdivision adjacent
to More Mesa, a 340-acre wildlife refuge on a coastal bluff in SB, the
Commission acknowledged importance of More Mesa and the fact that the proposed
project is too dense <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Headlands Reserve, Dana Point, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In voting to reject their staff and numerous
environmental and economic advisories, the Commission instead embraced a
developer’s proposal to destroy ESHA habitat at Dana Point Headlands in order
build a resort, construct luxury houses and erect a new seawall at Strands
Beach. Because of the Commission’s egregious decision rejecting even a public
hearing on the project, neither the Commission nor the public has any legal
assurance that the developer’s numerous promises regarding habitat restoration
will be complied with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Brightwater, Bolsa Chica 1, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Failing to take advantage of a strong staff
recommendation to protect birds, wildlife and habitat at one of Southern
California’s most important wetlands, the Commission sided instead with
developers and voted to eliminate a critical 100-meter (328-ft) buffer needed
by white-tailed kites in connection with the approval of a 349-house luxury
subdivision. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Brightwater, Bolsa Chica 2, Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Following the Commission’s rejection of 100-meter
buffers, Commissioner Sara Wan moved that the Commission require at least
200-ft buffers to insure the survival of raptors living onsite at the Bolsa
Chica wetlands. On a 6-6 vote the Commission rejected even that puny buffer,
preferring instead to join the developer in maximizing houses and profits at
the expensive of future wildlife survival Bolsa Chica. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cambria CSD, San Luis Obispo Co:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In supporting their staff and environmentalists, the
Commission voted to hear an appeal and conduct subsequent public hearings on a
proposal by the Cambria CSD to cut down Monterey Pine trees and habitat in
order to increase local water storage capacity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ocean View Plaza, Cannery
Row, Monterey County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Supporting their Executive Director’s decision to reject an
application for a mixed-use retail and condo project (which would have been
served via a privately constructed desalination plant), the Commission honored
long standing precedent prohibiting construction of private residential
desalination plants along the California coastline. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In
voting 7-3 to allow a 7,650 sq. ft. home and a 3,000 sq. ft. barn, the
Commission chose to scuttle a staff recommendation that would have proscribed
strict limits against construction of monster homes in rural coastal areas.
Castle-like homes waste resources, impair coastal habitat, cripple rural
communities, damage agricultural communities and cause visual blight. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Ignoring their staff, environmentalists and the Coastal Act once again, the
Commission sided with developers and voted 6-4 to allow a 3,000-ft long private
residential driveway on top of environmentally sensitive habitat (ESHA) and
native grasses, instead of requiring less environmentally damaging, readily
available alternatives. NB: Based upon litigation initiated by Wetlands Action
Network, the Waddell house and entrance road were subsequently removed from ESHA.
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the adverse impacts associated with luxury mansion development on agricultural
land, the Commission approved nearly 7,000 sq. ft of residential development on
a 17-acre farm, over the objection of their staff and environmentalists. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Amendment, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In approving a proposal to up-zone wild canyon lands in Mira
Mesa to allow for increased development, the Commission ignored the advice of
their staff and approved construction of 20 homes instead of the 3-homes
allowable under the existing zoning. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Kretowicz, La Jolla, San
Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In denying a proposal to abandon a valuable public access-way for a
paltry $10,000, the Commission saved access to a public beach and initiated
long overdue review of numerous Coastal Act violations at 7957 Princess Street
in La Jolla. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cambria CSD, San Luis
Obispo County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> In approving new water tanks for a Community Services District, the
Commission rejected an effort to place the tanks within sensitive Monterey Pine
tree forest habitat and required that successful water conservation efforts be
continued. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">McNamee, Newport Beach,
Orange County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Commission denied a proposal to allow illegal, unpermitted development
on bluff and sand at 3329 Ocean Blvd., Corona Del Mar Beach, including built-
in BBQ, cabinets, counter, sink, refrigerator, shower, thatched palapa,
concrete tables, benches, storage shed, toilet and flower garden. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">UCSB LRDP, San Clemente
Housing Project, Isle Vista, Santa Barbara County: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In approving a proposal to
construct a 976-bed, 846-space parking and housing development (380,000 sq.
ft.), the Commission (on an amending vote) was careful to require ESHA
protection of raptor trees and habitat in an area UCSB sought to develop
athletic fields. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Goleta Beach Seawall, Santa
Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Instead of addressing old unpermitted and illegal dumping of rocks by
SB County at Goleta Beach, the Commission agreed to allow a 350-ft long portion
of the seawall to remain for yet another year, while SB County continues to
pursue seawall development to protect the most expensive lawn in history in
violation of the Coastal Act. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Las Brisas, Solana Beach,
San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Acknowledging adverse recreation impacts to coastal resources and
recreation, the Commission denied a proposal by the Las Brisas Homeowners
Assoc. for a 35-ft-high, 120-ft-long seawall at 135 So. Sierra Ave. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Garacochea, Venice Beach, Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission allowed a private 70-unit condo
residential development in a visitor-serving zoned area and only required
partial commercial use of the property for 3-years, after which the entire
property can be converted to private residential use, at 512 Rose Avenue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">UCSB East Bluff Fence, Isle Vista, Santa Barbara
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission rejected an after
the fact permit for a 2,000-foot long, 3-ft high chain link fence constructed
without permits along the bluff edge and required that UCSB rebuild the fence using
a less unsightly wooden pick style fence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hotel development in seven buildings and a parking lot on environmentally
sensitive habitat (ESHA) adjacent to Solstice Creek, finding that the owner of
the property had destroyed ESHA in past unpermitted development on the site, at
26025 Pacific Coast Highway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Management Services (MMS) and the oil companies were negligent for their
failure to adequately address the potential for adverse environmental and
economic impacts to coastal resources, the Commission denied lease extensions
for 36 offshore oil & gas leases offshore of SLO & SB. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission approved a Cease
& Desist Order directing TPOA to stop using “no trespassing” signs on Broad
Beach, or using fences, private security guards or ATVs to harass the public.
NB: TPOA has initiated litigation against the Commission in order to be able to
continue to harass the public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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771 (Saldana): AB 771 (Saldana, D-San Diego) would have amended the Coastal Act
and state law to strengthen reporting requirements and public disclosure
regarding lobbying on coastal development projects, and would have required
that the Coastal Commission publish, on their web site, information regarding
lobbying contact information and content. Sierra Club and California Coastkeeper
Alliance supported AB 771. The legislation was passed by the California
Assembly & Senate and vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger on October 7, 2005.
<span style="color: blue;">http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0751-
0800/ab_771_vt_20051007.html </span>For the complete legislative history, go to
<span style="color: blue;">http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_771&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Las Brisas, Solana Beach, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> After denying this same 35-ft high, 120-ft long
seawall for a 36- unit condominium association in July 2005, the Coastal Commission
reversed course and approved the wall, but this time imposed a significant
$248,680 recreational impact mitigation fee against Las Brisas, where the
condos sell for approximately $1 million each. Although Surfrider Foundation
and Sierra Club opposed the project, the Commission vote is herein counted as a
positive vote due to their attempt to establish a new mitigation policy for
Solana Beach and north county San Diego. NB: Not willing to pay any mitigation
fee, the Las Brisas Homeowner’s Association has initiated litigation against
the Commission in an attempt to eliminate the proposed mitigation fee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mavar, San Pedro, Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> On a 9-2 vote the Commission acted to protect
coastal resources and public views of the coast by denying a request to adjust
a lot line and construct a new home at 2021 Paseo Del Mar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stoney Heights & Meadowlands Ranch, Malibu, Los
Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Voting 6-2, the
Commission denied a proposal to adjust a lot line that would have created two
lots and resulted in greater adverse impacts to environmentally sensitive
habitat areas (ESHA). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Santa Cruz Seaside Company, Santa Cruz County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Seaside Company operates the Santa Cruz Beach
Boardwalk and has been erecting illegal signs, gates and fences to eliminate
free public access in the vicinity since at least 2000. Here coastal staff
recommended that SC be required to maintain public access during business
hours, and be allowed to close the gates during nighttime and off-business
hours. Should SC prevail in ongoing litigation over historical public access
rights across the property, SC will still be required to maintain public access
according to this permit. Commissioner Ben Haddad (Alternate for Steve Kram)
sought to help SC eliminate public access and moved to delete the conditions
requiring access be maintained. The Commission voted 5-5 on Haddad’s motion and
the anti- access effort failed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Maxwell, Goleta, Santa
Barbara County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Despite overwhelming local opposition and obvious threat to adjacent
open space and ESHA, the Commission voted 7-4 to ignore the environment and
allow 2.3-acres and just two legal lots to be subdivided into five lots that
will allow for 6 homes to be crammed into property containing wetlands and a
creek at 4865 Vieja Drive, next to the More Mesa bluffs open space. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ten Mile River, Mendocino County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Commission approved a request to replace an
aging bridge over the Ten Mile River (north of Fort Bragg), but over the
objection of CalTrans voted to require that CalTrans include visually pleasing
rails and a safe sidewalk area for pedestrians and bicycles as the bridge is
also part of the California Coastal Trail. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Statement, Acoustic Impacts on Marine Mammals, World-wide: </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the objection of the US Navy, the Commission voted to send a statement to the
US Marine Mammal Commission’s Advisory Committee on Acoustic Impacts to Marine
Mammals in which the Coastal Commission noted that acoustic noise is causing
significant adverse impacts but is largely unregulated. The Coastal Commission
is urging that acoustic noise be further studied, regulated, minimized and
eliminated wherever possible. The analysis and statement are found at <span style="color: blue;">www.coastal.ca.gov/energy/comments-mmc-12-2005.pdf </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">NOAA, Southern California:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> As part of the continuing expenditure of settlement
funds related to the Montrose Settlement Restoration Program (MSRP) Final
Resolution Plan (FRP) the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
must secure approval of the Coastal Commission for mitigation programs in the
Channel Islands and offshore areas, Southern California Bight, Santa Barbara
& Los Angeles Counties. This year NOAA sought permission to halt Bald Eagle
restoration efforts on Catalina Island because the eagles continue to be
contaminated with DDT from Montrose Corporation. The Commission rejected the
proposal, and required that program be continued for a minimum of ten more
years, at a cost of $250,000 per year. NB: On March 13, 2006, NOAA informed the
Coastal Commission that it intends to ignore the Commission’s determination and
will allow the Catalina Island Bald Eagle population to go extinct. The
Commission now must determine weather to defend or litigate NOAA’s rejection,
or seek mediation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">McMillan NTC, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Ignoring the request of the San Diego City Attorney
and local activists with Save Our NTC (Naval Training Center), the Commission
voted 6-5 to allow McMillan to destroy nationally registered historic buildings
on a former military site in order to construct a big box mall. The City of San
Diego had approved the request in violation of their LCP and historic
preservation laws, but the Commission supported McMillan’s request to be able
to quickly knock down the historic buildings as part of one of the most
controversial, scandalous base closings in the United States. Commissioner
Haddad distinguished himself during the hearing as particularly hostile to
planning and the San Diego City Attorney. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Green & Ceresa, Aptos, Santa Cruz County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Just after being informed that the California
Attorney General would soon initiate limitations on legal representation of the
Coastal Commission, the Commission voted 11-0 to let an aggressive developer
ignore hillside bluff edge setbacks (against the recommendation of the
Commission’s own geologist) in order to expand a home at 106 Farley Drive,
Aptos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Camden, Newport Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission approved a 9,540 sq. ft. home with no
bluff set- back, against the advice of their staff and sound coastal planning
(several Commissioners wanted to go even further, and supported allowing the
house to hang out over the bluff). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Klien, Malibu, Los Angeles Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission approved an office building and parking
lot on steep can- yon slope within 50-ft riparian canopy and adjacent stream on
Pt. Dume, in violation of the required 100-ft ESHA setback. In setting a
disastrous precedent, Commission found that streams and canyons on Pt. Dume are
not entitled to ESHA protections, which will adversely impact economic and environmental
val- ues on Pt. Dume in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Humboldt Bay Harbor, Eureka:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In an unprecedented decision (that would not have
been allowed in Southern California), the Commission allowed officials in
Humboldt Harbor to dump more than 200,000 yards of toxic dredge spoils on the
public beach at Samoa Peninsula. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North County Transit, Del Mar, San Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission allowed a seawall for train tracks on a
consistency determination (CD), without requiring a coastal development permit
(CDP) and without ana- lyzing alternatives such as moving the tracks inland,
thereby sacrificing the coastal bluff and public beach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fargo, La Jolla, San Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission denied an after the fact permit for
illegal construction and grading for pool and deck extending over, intruding
into and causing severe damage to steep hillside natural preserve area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Holmgren, Ventura Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In violation of Coastal Act
policies limiting seawalls to ‘existing structures,’ the Commission approved a
new seawall for a brand new home, inappropriately sited on the public sandy
beach, with no setback, which was still under construction at Solimar Beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">KSL Resorts, Encinitas, San
Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Commission voted to allow conversion of a public overnight visitor serving
hotel to a private residential ‘condotel,’ thereby undermining coastal visitor
serving land use zoning protections and initiating a stampede to convert
coastal hotels to private condominium resorts that reduce public opportunities
to visit and stay along the coast and artificially inflate coastal land values.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Brinton, Miramar, San Mateo
Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Ignoring staff and legal recommendations, the Commission approved subdivid- ing
a single parcel into three lots to insure residential sprawl, without
protecting sensitive resources, steep slopes, ESHA, and without mitigating for
water supply constraints, severe traffic or beach access. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Dockweiler Beach, LA Dept.
Beaches & Harbors, LA Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Commission ignored staff recommendations and al- lowed
construction of a 9,000 sq. ft. youth center on the public beach, with a garage
and beach driving, ignoring al- ternative upland sites for the facility at
Dockweiler State Beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">US Navy, San Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Commission approved
construction of four 18-story residential towers and a 6-story park- ing garage,
blocking views and establishing a new adverse Miami Beach style development
precedent for area. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Reversing itself and a previous Commission denial, the Commission approved
destruction of a 25-acre strawberry farm to allow construction of 10 mansions,
despite contaminated and insufficient freshwater/groundwater supplies, merely
because the landowner had sued the Commission for the initial denial. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Pescadero Conservation
Alliance.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Commission allowed development of a youth campground on State Park land
purchased specifically to protect marbled murrelets, despite evidence that the
proposed Gazos Mt. Camp would ad- versely impact the endangered birds. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Inyaha (Fargo), La Jolla,
San Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> Merely because the landowner sued, the Commission reversed itself and
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Huntington Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> In protecting public recreation, the Commission denied a
proposal to allow residential development on one of only two public recreation
areas in entire Harbor. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">
Reserving a previous denial, Commission allowed 2-story addition and pool on
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Palos Verdes, LA Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> Commission approved dramatic reduction in public hotel
rooms (400 to 294) in new resort (“Terranea”), allowing 106 rooms to be
converted to private residential ‘condotel’ units, thereby increasing private
profits and adversely impacting public coastal zone overnight room
availability. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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San Mateo Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> To protect rare sand dune vegetation and habitat, the Commission denied
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Islands Harbor, Ventura Co..:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> In an outrageous decision, the Commission voted with
lobbyists to allow construction of a Boating & Safety Instruction Center
(BISC) that would destroy a public lawn and picnic area, as well as trees used
by Herons for nesting, despite the fact that other, more appropriate and
environmentally less damaging sites existed for the BISC. NB: This decision has
since been invalidated by court decree based upon a lawsuit brought by local
citizens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mar Vista, Laguna Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Finding that the City of Laguna had illegally
approved and sought to assist a private mansion developer, the Commission voted
to take jurisdiction over the project and to stop development in a creek. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yandow, Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> To protect public beach access, the Commission
denied the proposal by a property owner to fence and block off a popular public
beach access trail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Khaloghli, Cambria, San Luis Obispo Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Property owner sought to revise permit to allow for
illegally having planted 38 huge non-native palm trees in lieu of the native
plants that had been promised. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Goodell, Huntington Beach,
Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Finding that a property owner had illegally cut down a tree with endan- gered
nesting birds to facilitate a real estate development scheme, the Commission
ordered staff to bring an en- forcement matter, and required restoration and permanent
protection of the site. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Commission rejected an effort by adjacent property owners to continue to
maintain a fence on the public sandy beach in order to privatize the bluffs
above, between Palos Verdes and Re- dondo Beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Group) Laguna Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Following multiple citizen complaints against Athens
Group, Commission took initial enforcement steps to restore massive hillside
and watercourse destruction at Hobo Aliso in South Laguna. The destruction of
high value habitat and endangered Big-leaved Crownbeard was to facilitate a
luxury residential development scheme. Although much more enforcement and
restoration are necessary, coastal staff assured the Commission that additional
legal action will be undertaken. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">City of San Diego, San Diego
Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Following a lawsuit by Sierra Club, the Commission ordered that swim safety
buoys be allowed offshore of the private La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, and
that “Public Access Permitted” signs be required to be placed on the beach in
front of the club, and that mechanical beach grading be prohibited. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Laing Homes, Port Hueneme,
Ventura Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">
Under pressure from lobbyists and developers, the Commission approved a plan to
convert 17-acres dedicated to harbor uses to residential use for speculation,
sprawl and over 125 new houses. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Lerner, Malibu, Los Angeles
Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> To
protect a creek and environmentally sensitive riparian habitat, the Commission
denied a proposal to construct a swimming pool. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Gaviota Bridge, Santa
Barbara Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">
In order to stop a reckless plan pushed by Santa Barbara Co., the Commission
denied a proposal to construct a new bridge over Gaviota Creek that would have
destroyed over 3-acres of wetlands, finding that much less environmentally
damaging alternatives existed for nearly the same construction costs, which the
County had inexplicably failed to consider or utilize. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Hotel Del Coronado, San
Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">
Bowing to speculators seeking to subvert visitor serving zoning uses, the Commission
ap- proved a plan to convert 11 hotel units into 37 ‘condo-tel’ residential
units, damaging the public’s ability to stay along the coast in order to
facilitate profits for hoteliers. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Lands End, Pacifica, San
Mateo Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Commission approved a new pool and clubhouse on a crumbling bluff edge despite
evidence of landslides and severe erosion. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Garrison, Mendocino Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Commission supported
development of alternative energy systems and approved a pro- ject consisting
of free standing photovoltaic solar panels, and protected views by denying part
of the project consist- ing of a 60-ft high wind turbine along Highway One
outside of Albion that would have been visible for miles along a designated
scenic coastline. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Pardee Homes, City of San
Diego, San Diego Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Commission approved over 250 housing units on just 9 legal
lots, allowing for destruction of ESHA, and then voted to eliminate even 100-ft
buffers around remaining sensitive resources. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">UCSC Desalination Plant,
City of Santa Cruz Water Department, Santa Cruz Co.: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Commission voted to allow an
unnecessary bluff edge ‘experi- mental’ desal plant despite evidence that
permanent facility would not be located in vicinity and pilot test results
would not be useful in developing a permanent offsite facility. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Condominium Timeshares, City
of Huntington Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Commission voted allow zoning change that will allow
650 new private resi- dential condo and timeshare ownership resort rooms on
oceanfront land previously dedicated for public visitor overnight
accommodations, thereby adversely impacting future public beach access in
Huntington Beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Saint Catherine of Siena
Catholic School, City of Laguna Beach, Orange Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Commission voted to
acknowledge impending destruction of two creeks and accept jurisdiction over
school development project to prevent Laguna Beach and Catholic Diocese from
destroying sensitive resources. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Local Coastal Plan (LCP),
City of Malibu, Los Angeles Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Commission rejected an effort by the City of Malibu
to significantly weaken environ- mental resource protections, bluff setback and
public beach access provisions of their LCP. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Isle Vista Parking Plan,
Santa Barbara Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Commission voted to deny a permit parking plan that would have
eliminated over 2,000 free public beach access street parking spaces in Isle
Vista. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Malibu Valley Inc., Los
Angeles Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">
Commission voted to deny a vested rights claim that would have allowed
significant recent unpermitted eques- trian development on ESHA and adjacent to
riparian areas in the Santa Monica Mts. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Pacific Jewish Center, Santa
Monica/Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> In approving a religious string development (“ERUV”)
with view, land use and wildlife impacts, the Commission established a new less
rigorous development standard for faith based development proposals. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Surfer’s Pt., City of Ventura,
Ventura Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">
In advancing good science and land use, the Commission approved a managed
retreat plan to reconfig- ure shoreline to relocate public parking, realign
public bikeway and restore dune habitat. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">Goleta Beach, Santa Barbara
Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> In
contrast to positive development at Surfer’s Pt., at Goleta Beach Commission
again allowed SB Co. to allow California’s longest illegal ‘temporary’ seawall
(950-ft) to remain in place yet another 18 months, despite evidence of bad
faith on part of SB Co. that County intends to leave the wall forever. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">North & West Campus
Housing, UCSB, Santa Barbara Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"> Working for many years, the Commission approved a
plan by UCSB that insures per- manent protection of significant ESHA &
wetlands and two creeks, and will also allow over 300 units of faculty and
student family housing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Sand City, Monterey Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In seeking to appease a
local government acting in bad faith, six Commissioners voted to allow dozens
of tall, illegally developed urban style lights along a bike path and Highway
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Pebble Beach Co., Monterey
Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> In
seeking to appease resort owner, eight Commissioners voted to permit a new
175-ft long seawall that will destroy scenic Stillwater Cove Beach, without any
mitigation whatsoever, and establishing a new adverse precedent allowing seawalls
to protect golf course fairways in California. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">PG</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">&<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">E, San Luis Obispo Co.:</b> In one of the most important votes of the
year, 10 Commissioners abandoned their staff and the California coast and sided
with PG&E’s lobbyists in voting not to require any mitigation or
conservation of over 9,000-acres of environmentally sensitive lands adjacent to
PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, in connection with approval of
new steam generators that will extend the environmental impacts and life of the
nuke plant. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">California-American Water
Co., Monterey Co.:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Eight Commissioners voted to allow a ‘test’ desal plant using envi-
ronmentally destructive once-through cooling technology at Moss Landing Power
Plant, despite the fact that that technology will not be allowed for any
permanent facility and despite the fact that the desal promoters admit they in-
tend to try to permanently use such environmentally destructive technology. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The
Commission dramatically improved a proposal by the US Navy for the use of Sonar
off the Southern California coastline, by insuring the Navy reduced the level
of noise and improved the monitoring and avoidance of marine mammals. On a very
close 5-4 vote, however, the Commission failed to ban the use of sonar within
100 miles of coast, which would have virtually eliminated marine mammal threats
and kills by the Navy. For more information on the decision, go to <span style="color: #0051a5;">http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070213a.asp</span>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Following
the Commission’s determination that additional protective measures were
necessary, the Bush Administra- tion attempted to override the Commission’s
determination. That effort, however, was rejected by both the Federal Circuit
Court and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. In Summer 2007 the United
States Supreme Court accepted the matter for rehearing and a decision is
expected in 2009. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">After
being caught red-handed building an illegal road through wetlands at the
intersection of Culver & Jefferson Blvd’s, the Commission approved the work
after the fact without restoration or penalties. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commissioner
Steve Padilla was not re-appointed to the Commission by Assembly Speaker Fabian
Nunez and left the Commission in January 2007. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In
a disastrous decision allowing for unprecedented commercialization of public
beaches, the Commission ignored their staff and the public by agreeing to
revoke long-standing California policy and allow the AVP to charge the public
to use beaches and charge beach access fees for 75% of tournament seating. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commission
Vice-Chair Meg Caldwell was dismissed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and
left the Commission in February 2007. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In
a completely unnecessary maneuver designed to assist a developer, the
Commission voted 5-3 to ‘continue’ a proposal to create two legal lots and
lessen environmental protections and create new build- thereby insuring the
property owner will continue to seek to dam- age coastal resources. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">On
a 6-3 vote, the Commission rejected an effort by the City of Oxnard to sell off
publicly owned property— environmentally sensitive sand dunes—for construction
of luxury mansions. Postscript: Just 5 months later the Commission reversed
themselves and allowed one of the two sand dune parcels to be sold and developed
(“Breakers Way”). The City of Oxnard has committed to insuring to use public
taxpayer dollars to destroy and allow development of the last remaining parcel
(“Whitecap”) as soon as possible. For more information, see the August 2007
vote on page 21. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Commission voted to require a larger marine reserve and conservation protection
area, after a failed motion (supported by only three Commission members) would
have allowed the establishment of a smaller protected area. The lesser
protection had been sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), for federal waters of the Channel Islands National
Marine Sanctuary. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Steve Blank to the Commission in March 2007. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">This
legislation, authored by Levine (D-Van Nuys) and sponsored by Sierra Club,
would have placed limitations on the practice of subdividing and selling
coastal hotel rooms as privately owned residential units, or ‘condotels.’ The
Commissioners, who support lobbyists and hotel developers wanting to convert
overnight visitor accommodations to private residential condos, undertook an
unprecedented vote 8-3 to oppose the legislation and refuse to work with the
author to even consider amendments to the legislation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Following
the project being denied by the California State Lands Commission, and despite
enthusiastic support from the Schwarzenegger Administration, the Coastal
Commission voted unanimously to deny a proposal to build a floating industrial
Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal off the coast of Southern California that
would have been devastating to marine resources, public property, views,
climate change and sound energy policy. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Speaker Fabian Nunez appointed San Diego </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In
approving a 15,000 sq. ft. mansion, some Commissioners lobbied for a fence - cally
blocked public coastal views that even the property owners thought excessive.
On a 9-3 vote the Commission rejected the effort to block public views even
worse than proposed, while al- lowing the massive home to be constructed. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Regarding
one of the most important development proposals in years, the Commission voted
8-4 to deny a plan by PBC - stroy forest habitat containing over 2 dozen rare
and endangered plants and animals for new resort rooms, 33 mansions and a golf
course. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In a
highly unusual - oper and delete language to a Monterey County ordinance
requiring that desalination plants be publicly owned, despite the fact that no
objection to the statute had been raised or discussed in the Commission’s
underlying previous unfortunate decision to approve the plant (see Commission
Conservation Voting Chart, December 2006). Only Commissioners supporting - erencing
either a no vote initially or an absence. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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than require </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a motion to revoke a permit for a string ERUV wherein it was shown that the
applicant had not provided accurate information regarding the nature and extent
of the religious strings, and their adverse impacts on birds and wildlife, the
Commission voted to allow the project to proceed despite the misinformation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an about face due primarily to intense lobbying, the Com- mission reversed itself
and voted to allow and legitimize extensive illegal 2006. See Commission
Conservation Voting Chart, November 2006. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In
protecting beach access and access to a scenic bluff top headland, the Com-
mission rejected the efforts of the adjacent property owner to amend permits to
allow continued denial of public access to the area, at Commissioner Achadjian,
during consideration of a larger, comprehensive Local Coastal Plan Amendment,
moved to delete a routine condition prohibiting residential use of hotels,
saying that in San Simeon Acres - tels due to a lack of housing. Other land in
town exists, however, in which such housing could be constructed. Unfortunately
the Com- mission voted 7-4 to dilute a priority use under the Coastal Act with
the least desirable land use and hotels in San Simeon may now be used for
residential housing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commission
faltered in Oxnard’s long standing ef- fort to destroy all remaining endangered
undeveloped sand dune habitat at Oxnard Shores. On a 12-0 vote, the Commission
allowed the City to sell off a sand dune that had been given to the City on the
condition it be used as a community park. Instead, the City sold it to a
developer for $7 million to advance development of more than a dozen luxury
beach homes. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a 6-6 vote, the Commission rejected a proposal by Cambria CSD to construct
desalination pumps and pipes infrastructure on San Simeon State Beach. Over the
objection of water development advocates, the Commission determined that even
though the CSD claimed the desal facility was ‘temporary’ that it could never
be allowed to be permanently located on the State Beach, and thus it was
illogical to site it there as a test plant program. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Commission voted to al- low a so-called ‘bunker’ house to be built into a land sliding
cliffside, to serve as both a house and a seawall to protect the new house from
the inevitable collapse of the hillside and ravages of the adjacent seashore,
despite the fact the house, given its dangerous location and need for shoreline
armoring, appeared to be explicitly prohibited by the Coast- al Act. Worse,
Commissioners supporting the developer disregarded coastal staff
recommendations that the house be limited to 2-stories and voted instead for a
3-story home. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">On
a 9-3 vote, the Commission approved expansion of a house that would allow the destruc-
destroyed when the original home was constructed. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">On
a vote of 10-0, the Commission issued an order to stop ongoing unpermitted
development, grading, site clearance, dumping of motorcycles, home appliances,
debris and fill near and adjacent to wet- lands and environmentally sensitive
habitat areas at 4900 Broadway Avenue in the City of Eureka. <span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">After being feted by lobbyists for six years, the Commissioners
voted to violate the Coastal Act by allowing the construction of new houses on
top of known, existing, legally established wetlands. They then threw caution
to the wind by voting to eliminate buffer setbacks that will result in the
elimination of documented rap- tor habitat and white tailed kite foraging open
space (a legally protected endangered bird species in California). Due to the
legal and historic importance of the Commission’s decision, we have included
each of the separate illegal votes as part of this compilation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to coastal resources, climate change and community security, the Com- - cials
who sought to avoid implementing water conservation measures, and approved the
largest desalination project ever undertaken in North America. The Commission
also broke precedent with all past Com- owned residential desalination plant
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studios, outbuildings, and numerous oak and redwood trees, on a ridge dividing
Rocky Creek from Palo Colorado Canyon in Big Sur. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Embracing
a proposal to construct yet more private luxury residential hotel condominium
units at the beach, on land zoned for public visitor overnight accommodations,
the Com- mission sided with developers and local politicians and eliminated a
much-needed $3 million dollar mitigation fee designed to insure protection of
lower-cost visitor hotel rooms in the future. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">In
seeking to harmonize some 140,000 square feet of uncoordinated, environmentally
destructive past development on fragile Terrace Point, the Commission instead
approved an LRPD that will permit 600,000 square feet of new development over
the next 20 years, insuring the destruction of wetlands, environmentally
sensitive resources and raptor foraging open space in favor of an intensely
developed urban landscape that will destroy the urban- rural boundary line in
north Santa Cruz. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Reversing
a 2004 denial of nearly the exact same project, the Commission embraced one of
the longest seawalls proposed in California, a coastline and vitiate attempts
by past Commission policy to en- courage the use of managed retreat strategies
instead of walling off the coastline merely to protect roads. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Marina Del Rey LCP Update, Los Angeles County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In defense of
nesting shore birds and wetlands habitat, the Commission voted unanimously to
rebuke Los Angeles County and paid lobbyists on their effort to eliminate such
protections from the Marina Del Rey Local Coastal Plan update.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">(Note
that Kinsey is an alternate for Commissioner Reilly, Lowenthal is an alternate
for Clark, Gonzales for Hueso, Secord for Kram, and Liberman for Kruer. A vote
by an alternate will be indicated “via [alternate name]” as in the case of
Reilly above [not below]. All votes of alternates are attributed to the primary
commissioner for votes scoring purposes.)</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Foothill Transportation Corridor South, San Diego County: </b><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the
most important vote of the year, the Commission voted 8-2 to reject a proposal
to build a private toll road through San Onofre State Park that would have
destroyed a large portion of the park and have had major impacts on wetlands
estuary, endangered species, sacred Native American sites, a prized campground,
and a world famous surfing environment at Trestles, among other catastrophic
impacts.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Pacifica Condos, San Mateo County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In allowing for 10 condos to be
built on a single family half-acre ocean front lot regularly flooded by large
waves, the Commission joined the City of Pacifica in ignoring the effects of
climate change and sea level rise.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Channel Islands Harbor Boating Instruction and Safety Center, Ventura
County: </b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Even after a Superior Court decision forbade development on this
area close to sensitive bird nests and Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area
(“ESHA”), the Commission agreed with paid lobbyists and Ventura Co. Supervisors
in allowing the facility to be located in the exact same place, rather than
environmentally preferable locales in the Channel Islands Harbor.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Signal Landmark, Huntington Beach, Orange County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> After discovering
that the Bolsa Chica wetlands housing developer had illegally constructed
‘entrance monuments’ to impede public access to its new subdivision, the
Commission failed to require removal of these intimidating structures.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Pacifica Co., Seacoast Inn, Imperial Beach, San Diego County:</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">California
Coastal Commission Conservation Voting Chart 2008</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In allowing a new resort
hotel on the beach, the Commission ignored its own established policies and for
the first time approved a visitor serving facility where 100% of the rooms will
be subdivided and sold off to individual ‘condotel’ owners.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Puffsky, Santa Cruz County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a new nine-house
subdivision in the City of Santa Cruz, the Commission allowed the subdivision
to be located partially on public park land.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">City of Huntington Beach LCP Amendment (Shea Parkside Findings), Orange
County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In one of the most surprising moments of the year, the Commission
allowed lobbyists for a Bolsa Chica wetlands housing development to ‘re-write’
legal findings for the project (see Vote Chart, November 2007) to further
damage established wetlands on the property. This would eliminate the
possibility of a successful environmental lawsuit. (Note: only Commissioners
who initially voted for the project in November 2007 were entitled to vote on
the developers’ sponsored findings in 2008).</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">So. Cal. Edison, San Diego County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In order to help SCE avoid the purchase of
insurance, the Commission voted to allow SCE to haul radioactive nuclear cores
up, down and across miles of beach, and across creeks, wetlands and through
ESHA, between San Onofre near San Clemente and Camp Pendelton, in San Diego
County.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">City of Dana Pt. LCP Amendment (Headlands), Orange
County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission defended the
right to public access in rejecting a proposal to eliminate a public beach
access stairway through a luxury subdivision above Strands Beach at Dana Point
Headlands. In requiring the project proponent to implement the original plan
for the development, the Commission rejected developer’s contention that the
previously agreed-upon access was no longer viable after the project had been
completed.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">City of Malibu LCP Amendment, Los Angeles County:</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In defense of
public beach access, the Commission voted to deny a proposal by the City of San
Diego and the privately owned La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club to install signage
delineating a private beach fronting the club, adjacent to La Jolla Shores
public beach.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here the Commission voted to
reduce the required width size of beach front lots at Broad Beach for the
Malibu Bay Co. (“MBC”) so that MBC could build four new houses instead of just
two, thereby insuring additional profit for MBC and further degrading sensitive
beach habitat and wildlife resources.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Key, McCullough & Ames, San Diego County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> With no Coastal Act
justification whatsoever, the Commission allowed a four-lot subdivision rather
than a single home in order to assist the developer in maximizing profits.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Margolis, Malibu, Los Angeles County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a new house in
the Malibu Colony adjacent to Surfrider Beach, the Commission allowed for
development within 100-ft of ESHA, Malibu State Park wetlands and adjacent to a
stand of Monterey Cypress trees rather than consider less environmentally
damaging designs</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Livoni Second Family LP, Newport Beach, Orange County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In keeping
with long standing policy, the Commission denied a proposal for a private beach
access stairway in Corona Del Mar, Los Angeles County.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Poseidon Resources LLC Condition Compliance, Carlsbad Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Plan, San Diego County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In an effort to assist desalination
developer increase profits, the Commission agreed to lessen mitigation for
green house gas emissions associated with the high energy use plant. By
allowing for illusory conservation credits, the Commission ignored the fact
that future draws on state water allocations will not be reduced by this
facility.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Poseidon Resources LLC Condition Compliance, Carlsbad Marine Life
Mitigation Plan, San Diego County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Despite evidence of massive marine
larvae and fish kills associated with operation of the proposed desalination
facility, the Commission ignored their own policy designed to end use of ‘once
through cooling technology’ and approved the plant with mitigation of only 55.4
acres of new habitat, of which only 37 acres must be delineated in phase one.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Cannery Row Marketplace – Ocean View Plaza, Monterey County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Ignoring past policy, precedent and their staff’s recommen- dation, the
Commission approved a small private desalination facility in conjunction with a
commercial center despite inconsistencies with the Coastal Act regarding public
services, access, visual resources, historical areas, land use and water
quality.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Oceanside Lot Line Adjustment – Marina Towers Giveaway, San Diego
County: </b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Commission voted to allow the City of Oceanside to sell public
property in the Oceanside Harbor for tens of millions of dollars less than fair
market value to enrich condo lessees.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mendocino Land Trust, Mendocino County:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Commission voted to preserve
a public access trail along the bluffs in Gualala by denying an attempt by
adjacent landowners to block this access.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Navy Sonar, Southern California Expansion:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Despite the refusal of
the US Supreme Court to protect marine mammals
(http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/communi-
ty-news/navy-sonar-whales-88111302), the Commission voted to continue to
require marine mammal protections (see Vote Chart, January 2007) for a new US
Navy sonar expansion program in Southern California.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Driftwood Properties LLC, Orange County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> The Commission voted to
deny a patently frivolous vested rights claim wherein a property owner argued
that their past destruction of endangered species and ESHA habitat was so
consistent and pervasive that they had acquired a legal right to continue the slaughter.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Long Point Development, LLP, Dispute Resolution,
Los Angeles County:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In keeping with
past policy against privacy gates, the Commission voted on an amending motion
to deny a proposal to erect entrance kiosks for new resort at Long Point, Rancho
Palos Verdes.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Silva, City of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In approving a
new 6,000 sq. ft. house with a golf putting green, the Commission agreed to a
local housing evaluation system that includes no baseline and will insure
‘mansion creep’ and larger homes in the area.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Jager, Del Norte County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Despite LCP policies requiring a 100-ft
setback from wetlands, the Commission approved a new house just 39 ft from
delineated wetlands and ESHA resources</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">City of Pacifica Revetment, San Mateo County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Commission approved
City of Pacifica plan to continue to place boulders on top of public beach to
protect a hotel in denial of climate change, sea level rise or any strategic
managed retreat program.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">SLO Public Works Dept. –San Simeon Bridges, San Luis Obispo County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Commission approved needlessly large bridge replacement project with adverse
riparian and oak woodland habitat impacts. The enlarged bridge will serve only
to increase access for private ranches.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Arena Union Elementary School Dist., Mendocino County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Instead of
considering less environmentally damaging alternatives, the Commission approved
a new elementary school resulting in destruction of redwood forest habitat.
Special note: Due to fiscal limitations, the school district has announced the
new school will not be constructed and new facilities will be built at the
existing Pt. Arena school, proving the district had alternative plans after
all.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Lane Field Developers, San Diego County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> On a very close vote, the
Commission determined that Coastal Act policies and alternatives would have to
be considered with respect to large new resort planned for the downtown San
Diego waterfront, despite lobbyists efforts to convince the Commissioners to
the contrary.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Hearthside Homes/Brightwater, Bolsa Chica, Orange County:</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In addressing new
information regarding hundreds of Native American remains found while
developing luxury houses on Bolsa Chica Mesa in Huntington Beach, the
Commission found that revocation of earlier development permits was not
appropriate because the developer’s earlier fabrications were binding.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial;">Georgia-Pacific Corp., Fort Bragg, Mendocino County:</b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> In declining
to approve a polluter’s proposal to bury and cap toxic waste within a public
park, the Commission continued the matter to analyze alternatives</span></div>
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Islands Harbor Public Works Plan Notice of Impending Development No. 1-08
(Bahia Marina Dock Expansion and Re- placement).</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing and action
on notice of impending development by Channel Islands Harbor to replace 84
existing slips with 91 new slips in sizes ranging from 38 ft. to 131 ft. and
replace associated gangways and abut- ments along west side of harbor at 4200
S. Harbor Boulevard, Oxnard, Ventura County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The
County proposed boat slip redevelopment without adding a public walkway as
required by the certified Public Works Plan. The County exploited a loophole it
created years earlier when it split the landside leasehold from the waterside
leasehold. Despite a refuted County claim that a public walkway already
existed, staff and the Commission majority unfortunately accepted the Coun- ty
assertion that this project was waterside only and did not trigger its public
walkway obligation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Lane Field Developers, San Diego)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Appeal by Commissioners Shallenberger & Kruer,
Ian Trowbridge & UNITE HERE Local 30 from decision of Port of San Diego
granting permit with conditions to Lane Field San Diego Developers, LLC to construct
2 hotels (205 ft.-high & 275 ft.-high) with 800 rooms total, approximately
80,000 sq.ft. of retail uses, restaurants, public spaces and un- derground
parking for 1,330 vehicles, and development of an off-site hostel and public
shuttle program, at site north of Broadway Street between Pacific Highway and
Harbor Drive, Port District, San Diego, San Diego County. [APPROVED WITH
CONDITIONS] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The
Commission voted unanimously to add special conditions to the permit that would
assure mitigation for impacts to coastal access. The conditions included
operation of a bayfront shuttle service during the summer to mitigate for loss
of public parking, and construction of a hos- tel in the coastal zone to
provide low-cost accommodations. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Life- guard Tower and Restroom, County of Ventura)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Appeal by Graham and Bella Galliford,
Arnie and Sherri Friedman, Chester and Jane Haines, and Bob Jurik from the
decision of County of Ventura granting a permit to the Ventura Coun- ty Harbor
Department to construct a 1,700 sq. ft., maximum 33-ft. in height, lifeguard
tower and public restroom building on Silver Strand Beach, west of the
intersection of San Nicolas Avenue and Ocean Drive, County of Ventura.
[SUBSTANTIAL ISSUE FOUND, de novo Hearing TO CONTINUE] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">b. Appeal No. A-4-VNT-08-100
(Life- guard Tower and Restroom, County of Ventura)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Appeal by Graham and Bella Galliford,
Arnie and Sherri Friedman, and Chester and Jane Haines from the decision of the
County of Ventura grant- ing an amendment to a permit allowing the Ventura
County Harbor Depart- ment to construct a 1,700 sq. ft., maxi- mum 33-ft. in
height, lifeguard tower and public restroom building on Silver Strand Beach, as
amended to prohibit construction of future shoreline protec- tive device(s) to
protect the proposed structure, located west of the intersec- tion of San
Nicolas Avenue and Ocean Drive, County of Ventura. [SUBSTANTIAL ISSUE FOUND, de
novo Hearing TO CONTINUE] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Unanimous
finding of substantial issue regarding a lifeguard tower at Channel Islands
Harbor. The hearing was continued from September 2008 when the Commis- sion
gave explicit guidance to the County on issues to be addressed. The County gave
incomplete and evasive answers on the issues of armoring, flood zone location
and loss of public views. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lifeguard towers (multiple towers – one appeal) a – e. Appeal Nos.
A-5-LGB-08-47 – 51 (City of Laguna Beach Dept of Marine Safe- ty, Laguna Beach)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> De Novo Portion of Appeal
by Sandra Siani from decision of City of Laguna Beach granting per- mit with
conditions to replace tempo- rary, seasonal lifeguard tower on sandy beach with
a permanent lifeguard tower supported on 36-in. caisson, at Picnic Beach
(Myrtle Street), Bird Rock Beach, Sleepy Hollow Beach, Thalia Street Beach, Oak
Street Beach Laguna Beach, Orange County. [APPROVED WITH MODIFICATIONS] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Commission voted unanimously to approve temporary, seasonal lifeguard towers on
several sensitive beaches in the city of Laguna Beach versus approving the coastal
resource-harming and destructive permanent towers the city manager and marine
safety department were proposing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. 6-08-62 (Blackburn, Solana Beach)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Application of
Ron Blackburn to construct 369 sq. ft. addition to 1,414 sq. ft. single-story
home on 3,750 sq. ft. blufftop lot, at 205 Pacific Avenue, Solana Beach, San
Diego County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deny a permit for an addition to an exist- ing home that would have required
driving casings deep into the unstable bluffs on a high risk site. Allowing an
addition to a structure that is already at risk would have violated Coastal Act
policies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. E-08-020 (West Basin Municipal Water District, Los An- geles Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Application of West Basin Municipal Water District to construct and operate
test desalination facility, including pipes, screens, and pumps within an
existing power plant intake structure and test facility adjacent to Redondo
Beach Generating Station, all within an area of Commission’s re- tained jurisdiction
in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Despite the known impacts to coastal
re- sources created by desalination facilities, the Commission approved yet
another “test” facility that could ultimately result in a permanent facility. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. A-4-OXN-07-096 (Southern California Edison, Oxnard)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Appeal by Southern California Edison from deci- sion of City of Oxnard denying
permit to construct and operate a 45 megawatt “peaker” power plant, at 251 N.
Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, Ventura County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">At a Coastal Commission regular meeting
specially located in Oxnard to accommo- date concerns of the low-income popula-
tion affected by the project, the Commission approved de novo an appeal of a
local decision by City of Oxnard to not approve the first electric power plant
in the Coastal Zone in decades. The substantial issue approval of this appeal was
in Septem- ber 2007 on the grounds that language in the Oxnard LCP was
inadequate to deny Southern California Edison a CDP to con- struct the new peaker
power plant adjacent to an existing Reliant Energy power plant at Mandalay
Beach. The Commission was advised by staff that the Coastal Act was not subject
to consideration of Environmental Justice (EJ) issues and could not base its
ruling on EJ policy that must be considered by other State and Federal agencies
in their deliberations. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. 6-09-016 EDD (Moss, Carls- bad)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing
on dispute over proposed retaining walls and grading to take place seaward of
the identified bluff edge inconsistent with Special Condition #1 associated
with project to demolish 2,100 sq. ft. home and con- struct 6,755 sq. ft. home
including 2,366 sq. ft. basement, infinity edge swim- ming pool, spa and patio
on a 13,650 sq. ft. blufftop lot, at 5015 Tierra del Oro, Carlsbad, San Diego
County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The Commission denied this dispute reso-
lution that would have allowed the applicant the ability to grade a coastal
bluff for the construction of extravagant accessory improvements seaward of the
established bluff edge. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">[APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. A-3-SLO-08-018 (State Parks ODSVRA, San Luis Obispo Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Appeal by Christie Camphorst, Kelly Devaney, and Nell Langford of San Luis
Obispo County decision granting permit with conditions to the Califor- nia
Dept. of Parks and Recreation for replacement of 1 existing restroom building
and install 5 new restroom buildings within the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular
Recreation Area (ODS- VRA) in the Oceano area of San Luis Obispo County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mendation did allow for substantial issue to be found on this contentious issue
that would have represented piecemeal devel- opment with impacts to coastal
resources. This issue was dubbed by several Com- missioners as a “giant grab”
of Coastal Commission jurisdiction. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Santa Barbara LCP Amendment No. MAJ-3-08 (Coast Village Road – Olive Mill
Road Rezone). </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Public hear- ing and action on
City of Santa Barbara request to amend its LCP Implementa- tion Plan by
amending the Zoning Or- dinance and map to change the zoning of one lot from
Two-Family Residential and Coastal Overlay Zone (R-2/S-D-3) to General Commerce
and Coastal Overlay Zone (C-1/S-D-3) locat- ed at 1298 Coast Village Road, City
of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commission majority approved this re-
zoning to allow for a project that was much too large and intensive for the
area and would set a precedent for the entire area. Concerns included impacts
on views due to height increase and bulk and lack of setbacks. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Application No. 4-08-006 (Santa
Barba- ra County, Goleta Beach) </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Application of Santa Barbara County to construct 500
ft. long, 20 ft. wide, permeable pile sand retention system and addition to
Goleta Beach Pier consisting of 250 -– 330 timber or composite fiberglass piles
(18” – 20” in diameter) and timber decking; seasonal installation of ap-
proximately 1,200 ft. long, 3-5 ft. high winter sand berm for 5 years; remove
approximately 1,500 linear ft. of rock rip rap at upcoast end of park; repair
approximately 650 linear ft. of revetment at downcoast end of park, dredge
approximately 500,000 cu. yds. of sand material from offshore location and
place dredged material on beach imme- diately upcoast of pier for initial beach
nourishment; and implement Adaptive Management and Monitoring Program involving
periodic adjustments to per- meable pile sand retention system and offshore
dredging/beach nourishment on as-needed basis not to exceed 100,000 cu.yds. of
material/year, at 5986 Sand- spit Road, Santa Barbara County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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overturned its staff’s recommendation and denied Santa Barbara County’s
proposed groin project at Goleta Beach. The groin project would have trapped
sand at Goleta Beach, but in doing so would have prevented sand from reaching
beaches to the east of Goleta causing erosion and damage to beach habitats. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Application No. 4-06-163
(Malibu Valley Farms, Inc., Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Malibu Valley Farms, Inc.
granted permit with conditions for after-the-fact approval of equestrian
facility used for horse breeding, raising, training, stabling, exercising, board-
ing and rehabilitation, including as- built riding arenas, fencing, dirt access
road with 2 at-grade crossings through Stokes Creek, corrals, paddock, mare
motel, shelters, covered pipe barns, tack rooms, barn, manure storage areas,
and parking lot. The project also includes addition of vegetative swales, bioreten-
tion basin with riprap pad, and 0.5-ac. riparian restoration, and removal of
various pipe and covered corrals, cross- tie areas, storage containers, and
tack rooms, located at 2200 Stokes Canyon Road, Santa Monica Mountains, Los
Angeles County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">This
contentious enforcement issue turned “after-the-fact” permitting issue, was a
major environmental disappointment on multiple fronts that concluded with the
approval of an illegal horse ranch. Following a legal victory invalidating
prior approval, Commission staff was directed to pursue revised findings rather
than a public hearing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commission Cease & Desist
Order No. CCC-09-CD-01 (Ackerberg, Malibu, Los Angeles Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing and
Commission action on proposed Cease and Desist Order directing Lisette
Ackerberg, trustee of the Ackerberg Trust and owner of property to: 1) cease
from engaging in further unpermitted devel- opment activities, including
maintain- ing existing unpermitted development; 2) remove unpermitted
development consisting of rock rip-rap, a wall, con- crete slab and generator,
fence, railing, planter, and landscaping from areas covered by lateral and
vertical public access easements on the property; and 3) comply with conditions
of existing permits and vertical and lateral pub- lic access easements, which
provide for unobstructed public access over areas of the property covered by
those ease- ments, located at 22500 and 22466 Pa- cific Coast Highway, Malibu,
Los Ange- les County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Notice of Violation No.
CCC-09-NOV-01 (Ackerberg, Malibu, Los Angeles Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing and Commission
action identifying unpermitted development by Lisette Ackerberg, trustee of the
Ackerberg Trust and property owner, on property located at 22500 and 22466
Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, Los An- geles County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The
Commission voted unanimously to issue a Cease and Desist Order based on
multiple Coastal Act violations that included unpermitted development and
violations of two CDPs which required vertical and lateral public access ease- ments
to mitigate loss of coastal access and visual resources. Ackerberg sued the CCC
following the hearing and the lawsuit is still in process. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">City of Redondo Beach
RDB-MAJ-2-08 (Area 2 Certification).</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing and action on request by the City of
Redondo Beach to amend its certified Land Use Plan and Implementation Plan in
order to certify the remaining uncertified area (Area 2) of the Redondo Beach
Coastal Zone. Area 2 consists of the power generating plant area located west
of Catalina Ave, and the harbor and pier areas of the City. The City also
requests the elimination of the current geographic segmentation of the Coastal
Zone in conjunction with these amend- ments. The City proposes to remove the
various, and conflicting development standards that exist for Area 2 between
the certified LUP, Harbor/Civic Center Specific Plan and the existing zoning
regulations. The amendment request includes a development cap of 400,000 square
feet of floor area for new devel- opment within the entire Harbor/Pier area,
changes the zoning designations for the Harbor/Pier area from Water- front to
Coastal Commercial 1 - Coastal Commercial 5 with specific develop- ment
standards for each of the new zones and addresses specific require- ments for
limited use overnight visitor accommodations. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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WITH MODIFICATIONS] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">With
the exception of one Commissioner, the Commission approved this develop- ment
in the downtown/pier area “Heart of the City” without compliance with Mea- sure
DD, which amended City Charter Section XVII to require a public vote for all
major allowable land use changes. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Application No. 4-09-13
(Mariposa Land Company, City of Malibu)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Application of Mariposa Land Company for permanent
placement of rock rip- rap revetment along approximately 500-ft. section of the
west bank of lower Malibu Creek, in follow-up to Emer- gency Coastal
Development Permit No. 4-98-024-G. The proposed project also includes
revegetation of the revetment site, at 3728 Cross Creek Road, City of Malibu, Los
Angeles County. [APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS] </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asked for permanent placement of the 10-year old “emergency” seawall, which
stood as an un-engineered 500- foot long rock revetment on lower Malibu creek
that greatly impaired water quality, and also failed to protect ESHA, endan-
gered steelhead trout, tidewater goby and critical bird habitat in Malibu
Lagoon and Surfrider Beach. The Commission sup- ported staff recommendation for
a new wall with vegetation. In a 7 – 1 vote, the Commission approved an
environmentally inferior solution to this longstanding prob- lem despite
lengthy testimony from Heal the Bay, Surfrider Foundation and Sierra Club
Coastal Programs who requested full support of a bio-engineered soft solution
to improve the greatly impaired water quality and protect habitat. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Richard J. Livoni Second Family Limited Partner- ship, Newport Beach)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Application of Richard J. Livoni
Second Family Lim- ited Partnership to remove unpermitted retaining walls and
beach access stair- way from bluff face, regrade lower bluff to natural
contours, extend lower deck, add new caisson-supported deck with enclosed
bathroom and spa equipment room, and construct new at grade path- way from new
deck to beach. Grad- ing will consist of 163 cu.yds. of cut, 10 cu.yds. of
fill, and 153 cu.yds. of export to location outside of Coastal Zone. Native
landscaping is also proposed, at 3335 Ocean Blvd., Newport Beach, Orange
County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Unanimous
vote to approve the continued destruction of the Newport Beach coastal bluffs.
Before his untimely death in November, Dr. Jan Vandersloot battled often alone
to try and save the last remaining coastal bluffs of Newport Beach. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(City of San Diego Second- ary Treatment Waiver, San Diego)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Re- submitted Consistency Certification by City of San Diego for secondary treat-
ment waiver (i.e., Environmental Pro- tection Agency (EPA) Reissuance, under
Section 301(h) of the Clean Water Act, of a modified National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit) for Point Loma Wastewater
Treatment Plant Discharges offshore of San Diego, San Diego County. [APPROVED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">After a vote by the Commission in
August of 2009 to deny a Consistency Certifica- tion for one of the nation’s
last and largest waiver-holders, the issue was brought back for reconsideration
just two months later. This issue split the environmental com- munity, with the
San Diego environmental community supporting a consistency find- ing after
reaching a cooperative agreement with the City to undertake studies aimed at
reclaiming wastewater as a way to re- duce or even eliminate sewage discharges
to the ocean, while many state and national organizations without local
chapters stood opposed based on environmental impacts from the discharge and
the problematic precedent another waiver would provide. The goal of reclaiming
wastewater, rather than just improving treatment standards, is laudable.
However, the swiftness of this re-hearing sent the message to the regu- lated
community that if at first you don’t succeed, just try again; it also may have
re- duced pressure on the City to find real so- lutions to its sewage problem
that a denial would have provided. The certification was approved, even in the
face of hours of compelling testimony and thoughtful environmental comments
from multiple Commissioners. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Green Valley Corporation, Capi- tola). Request by Richard and Nancy Swan and
the Green Valley Corporation to amend permit to eliminate the exist- ing
condition prohibiting future shore- line armoring (that applies to the Green
Valley Corporation property) and to construct approximately 115-ft. section of
contoured concrete seawall fronting that Green Valley Corporation property and
adjacent to existing seawall on adjacent property (on Swan property) on beach
and bluffs fronting 4840 and 4850 Cliff Drive in Capitola, Santa Cruz County. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The Commission approved the temporary
fill of the sea cave on the Swan property, which required a CDP amendment for
the Green Valley Corp. property to allow the “one time” fill, with the
condition that the owners of the Swan property must come back in six months
with a long-term plan to realign the bluff and eliminate the need for the sea
cave fill on the Green Valley property in the long-term. So, although the
Commission did allow for a CDP amend- ment to facilitate temporary one-time ar-
moring to extend onto the property, the CDP prohibition on future armoring is
still intact and no armoring will exist on the Green Valley Corp. property in
the long- term. At the hearing, the Commission did signal that it would not be
amenable to do these CDP amendments in the future. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. 4-99-276-A3 (Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District, Malibu) </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Request
by Santa Monica-Malibu Uni- fied School District to amend permit to eliminate
Special Condition No. 6 (Athletic Field Lighting Restriction) to allow
operation of temporary light stan- dards on football field for maximum of 16
nights per football season (Septem- ber-December) at Malibu High School, 30215
Morning View Drive, Malibu, Los Angeles County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Malibu and its school district as pro- ponents of the high school lighting
attempted to argue natural resources value with Commissioner and Malibu
resident, Sara Wan. The City of Malibu continues to amend its LCP in order to
accommodate this lighting well into 2010. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cease and Desist Order Consent Amendment No. CCC-09-CD- 03-A and Restoration
Order Consent Amendment No. CCC-09-RO-02-A (Mills PCH, LLC – Huntington Beach,
Orange County).</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"> Public hearing and Commission
action on proposed consent amendments to previously issued Cease and Desist
Order and Restoration Or- ders, to supplement existing Orders to address
Commission monetary claims (provisions of the original orders re- main in
place); directed to Mills PCH, LLC; property located at 21622 Pacific Coast
Highway, Huntington Beach, Or- ange County Assessor’s Parcel No. 114- 150-86. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Commission staff recommends settle- ment
without removal of all the fill and a payment of $125,000 fine. Commis- sioner
Kruer opined that this puny fine is nothing and doesn’t send the right mes-
sage to developers. Most of the Commis- sioners agreed with this messaging
point and Commissioner Kruer asks how the $125,000 was chosen since there
should be a quantitative method for assessing penalties. Commissioner Wan asks
about process to alter or modify Consent Order and Commission Counsel advises
they can deny, ask applicant on record to increase the penalty or take a break
and have staff negotiate with applicant. Following the break, applicant’s agent
agreed to remove remainder of gravel, but project principal cannot be reached
due to overseas travel. Applicant’s agent agreed to a one-day de- lay so that
he may negotiate higher penal- ty. The following day the fine was doubled to
$250,000. A precedent-setting penalty that changed all the ground rules for en-
forcement action. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No. A-1-MEN-07-28 (Jackson- Grube Family, Inc., Mendocino Co.)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Appeal by (1) Molly Warner & Britt Bailey, (2) Commissioners Kruer &
Wan, (3) Mendocino Group Sierra Club, Friends of the Ten Mile, (4) Mar- gery S.
Cahn Trust & Whiting Fam- ily Revocable Trust from decision of County of
Mendocino granting permit with conditions to Jackson-Grube Family, Inc. to
build a 7-unit inn in 2 phases. Roads and underground utilities are also
proposed, located at 31502 North Highway One, Fort Bragg, Mendocino County.
[DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Staff recommended approval of the
project with conditions that would allow the ap- plicant to increase the
intensity of use of a highly scenic area and build an inn that did not strictly
comply with local zoning for Inns and Bed & Breakfasts. Appellants sought a
smaller development with a lower intensity of use. The Commission denied the
project, and then denied reconsidera- tion at a subsequent public hearing.
Jack- son-Grube then sued the Commission. The Commission reported at its public
hearing on May 12, 2010 that a settlement had been reached. The terms of the
settlement were not revealed at that hearing. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Angeles Co.) Application of Tom Elliott to construct 2-story, 28-ft. high, 4,413
sq.ft. single-family home with 1,129 sq.ft. attached garage, swimming pool,
septic system, 300-ft. long driveway with hammerhead turnaround, retain- ing
walls, perimeter fencing, and 2,560 cu.yds. of grading (1,293 cu.yds. cut,
1,267 cu.yds. fill) at 1522 Decker Can- yon Road, Santa Monica Mountains, Los
Angeles County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The precedent surrounding this item is
a neighboring planned structure could re- quire adjacent landowners to clear
ESHA to meet fire safety standards. ESHA impacts were avoidable by re-siting
the house, but the applicant refused. Com- mission action ensures avoidable
impacts to ESHA are prevented on adjacent property of a project/development
that requires ESHA removal on neighboring property because of siting issues in
applicant’s project. The Commission determined there were siting alternatives
on subject property that would not require neighbor to remove ESHA and
compromise habitat values to meet the siting decisions of their adjacent owner.
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Request No. R-E-06-013 (Poseidon Resources, Carlsbad)</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Re- quest by Surfrider Foundation, San Diego Coastkeeper, and Coastal En-
vironmental Rights Foundation to re- voke permit E-06-013 granted to Posei- don
Resources to construct and operate a 50 million gallon per day seawater de- salination
facility at site of Encina Power Plant, adjacent to Agua Hedionda Lagoon, in
City of Carlsbad, San Diego County. [DENIED] </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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desalination Coastal Development Permit (CDP) had numerous conditions,
including a Marine Life Mitigation Plan to compensate for marine life mortality
associated with the desalination facility’s seawater intake. It was discovered
during the review of their intake permit application before the Regional Water Quality
Control Board the Applicant had intentionally provided inaccurate information
that resulted in an under-estimate of marine life mortality. Consequently the
Coastal Commission had previously approved an inadequate </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Request cited evidence that the Applicant had intentionally supplied this
inaccurate information and had the Applicant supplied accurate information it
would have resulted in a different condition in the CDP. One of the more
experienced Commissioners claimed that she had never seen a more clear case for
revocation of a permit. Nonetheless, the Commission denied the revocation
request based on their conclusion that the environmental groups failed to fully
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Mateo County LCP Amendment No. SMC-MAJ-1-07 (Midcoast Update).</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">
Public hearing and action on request by San Mateo County to update its land use
plan (LUP) and implementation plan (IP) for the urban Midcoast area (El
Granada, Miramar, Moss Beach, Montara, Princeton-by-the-Sea). [APPROVED WITH
MODIFICATIONS] b. San Mateo County LCP Amendment No. SMC-MAJ-1-04-A (Midcoast
De- sign Standards). Public hearing and ac- tion on request by County of San
Mateo to amend the LUP and IP to establish new design standards for
single-family and duplex development in the urban Midcoast (El Granada,
Miramar, Moss Beach and Montara). </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">The urban Midcoast area of San Mateo
County is comprised of the unincorporat- ed communities of El Granada,
Princeton, Miramar, Moss Beach, and Montara, and is located just north of Half
Moon Bay. Cumulative impacts of new development in both Half Moon Bay and the
urban Mid- coast communities have raised significant issues of adequacy of the
infrastructure (roads, sewer, water,) to serve buildout without adversely
impacting coastal re- sources and affecting public access to and along the
shore. After a 10-year process, the LCP Update was certified by the Com-
mission with 72 Suggested Modifications, over the County objections to several es-
sential modifications, including: limiting the annual rate of growth,
prohibition of new private wells in areas served by public water systems,
traffic/transportation miti- gation and phasing of expansion of roads and water
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serving develop- ment (Monterey Bay Shores Resort) re- quiring 695,000 cu.yds.
of grading (and 418,000 cu.yds. of sand disposal) in sand dunes seaward of
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use development proposed to be located in Seaside on the west side of Highway 1
in the sand dunes. The project was resurrected from the late 1990s. In its
former life, it was a 495 unit hotel/ condo/residential development. It was de-
nied by the Coastal Commission in 2000, and subsequently a lawsuit was filed
that argued the Commission could not base its decision on the presence of ESHA,
as the Sand City LCP did not identify the area as ESHA (even though the area is
ESHA). Unfortunately, the applicant won that suit and the court ordered the Commis-
sion to re-hear the application. The newly proposed project consisted of 341
hotel/ condo/residential units and was to be built “into the dunes.” Even with
the downsiz- ing, this resort would have been one of the largest resorts ever
built in the Cali- fornia Coastal Zone and would be located directly atop of
some of the rarest, most environmentally sensitive coastal sand dunes left in
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or minimize coastal hazards over its lifetime, would have blocked and oth-
erwise impaired significant public views, would not have protected dune
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-83147403518367583882013-05-19T09:41:00.001-07:002013-05-31T03:27:24.878-07:00Sonoma Coast Beach Access Closures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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With all the focus on state parks which were threatened with closure, one could be forgiven for not noticing unless your a local that many beaches on the Sonoma Coast have been closed due to what is called "service reductions". This is a map of those beaches, with descriptions of their availability to the public. Also included are the locations of proposed iron ranger pay stations being discussed by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on June 18th.<br />
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Good threaded discussion of public access at <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/05/03/smartphone-app-gives-public-ac.html">Public Access Discussion</a>
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-40509330222673227672013-05-02T13:22:00.004-07:002013-05-02T13:22:53.823-07:00Our Malibu Beaches Phone App Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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Here's a great new project from some talented folks in Southern California who are working hard to open up and preserve our California coast.<br />
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<iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/escapeapps/opening-this-summer-the-malibu-beaches-0/widget/video.html" frameborder="0"> </iframe>
<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-54443519662648646312013-04-19T15:47:00.001-07:002013-04-22T11:35:40.129-07:00April Salt Point State Park Hike<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This post is intended to be used to provide those hiking the southern coastal portion of Salt Point State Park with vital information to best understand what they will encounter, and to ensure a successful hike.<br />
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Gerstle Cove Underwater Park
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<a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/101102387751856484775/April2013SaltPointWalk">Photos from past hikes from Gerstle Cove to Stump Beach (Photo Album)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22554">Plants and Animals of Salt Point (text)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.geologyfieldtrips.com/saltpointlake.htm">Geology of Salt Point State Park (text)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.saltpoint.org/">Salt Point on Fort Ross Conservancy Website (text)</a><br />
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<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Salt_Point_State_Park">WikiMedia Commons at Salt Point (text)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.everytrail.com/destination/salt-point-state-park">EveryTrail at Salt Point (text)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1175723">Salt Point State Park Circuit via North, Central, and South Trails</a></h2>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2574687796767816539.post-82109068040937793962013-03-20T12:11:00.001-07:002013-03-20T12:11:33.175-07:00Wednesday, March 20th, Coastal Trail Tales<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings!<br />
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Lots have happened in the past three months, so I thought I'd make some comments.<br />
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First, the California State Parks along the coast haven't been as impacted by the proposed closings announced last year. Many of them have been rescued by local park associations, and some of them by local governments. The State Legislature reacted to the California State Parks Department budget fiasco by undertaking some investigations, and by directing the arks to remain open until at least June 2014. That provided a temporary fix, but still did not solve the deep budget deficit for the Department.<br />
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Second, Coastwalk California has begun a campaign to organize a Coastal Trail Association, consisting of the many public and private nonprofit organizations and governments which have some interests in the California coastal corridor. This is a year-long project, which is being supported by the State Coastal Conservancy, the California Coastal Commission, and the National Park Service. <br />
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Lastly, California Coastal Views has undertaken a new project entitled Coastal Trail Tales. With the goal of acquiring one thousand tales, written by users of the California Coastal Trail during the past five years, the project will develop a downloadable, mobile phone application which features text, photos, and videos and which promotes and recognizes the adventures of coastal trail lovers.<br />
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Gregory</div>
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