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Jump to navigation By  07/21/2021 Marin County’s updated Local Coastal Program will go into effect within a month, following a vote by the Board of Supervisors last Tuesday to approve the final document. Yet the update, which will guide development in the coastal zone in compliance with the California Coastal Act, excludes the chapter on environmental hazards policy, upsetting some groups that are eager to see new guidelines on threats like sea-level rise and wildfire. The hazards ch...

U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-2) and Jennifer González-Colón (R-P.R.), along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have introduced legislation that would reauthorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Coastal Program, which brings together FWS activities in priority coastal areas along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, and in the Caribbean. Within these areas, the FWS partners with coastal communities to conserve an...

CITY COUNCILS CARLSBAD The Carlsbad City Council met Tuesday for a hearing and approved its 2021-22 operating budget, other city budgets and associated resolutions.

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Maine Department of Marine Resources Wed, 03/17/2021 - 8:30am The Department of Marine Resources Coastal Program announces the availability of funds for Shore and Harbor Planning grants. Funds are provided through the states NOAA Coastal Program Grant and the Shore and Harbor Fund managed by the Maine Department of Marine Resources Coastal Program. Shore and Harbor Planning Grants promote: sound waterfront planning and harbor management, balanced development of shore and harbor areas,...

Jodie Wagner Palm Beach Daily News After back-to-back hurricanes depleted the sand at Phipps Ocean Park, the town has begun a months-long project to replace it. As part of a $9 million beach renourishment project that mirrors one completed at Midtown Beach last May, approximately 400,000 cubic yards of sand will be dredged offshore and then placed along 1.6 miles of beach from the northern tip of Phipps Ocean Park southward to R.G. Kreusler Park near the Lake Worth Pier.  The new sand will...

Current and former UD students to begin work with federal government

On December 18, 2020, the Fourth District Court of Appeal published 11 Lagunita, LLC v. California Coastal Commission, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case No. G058436), a case involving a Coastal Development Permit issued by the California Coastal Commission in 2015 for the reinforcement of an existing seawall that was installed years earlier, before the Coastal Act, at the base of a 1950’s era Laguna Beach home. Because seawalls have negative effects on beaches and can impact public access, the ...