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CITY COUNCILS CARLSBAD The Carlsbad City Council will meet in closed session at 2:30 p.m.

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 chapter was last updated in 1982; now, the county has until next spring to finalize it.  At a hearing...

Some Marin County homeowners may have to abandon their homes because of eventual flooding — a reality facing many coastal communities

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(Image by Egor Shitikov from Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — California’s novel coastal protection law — the California Coastal Act — protects public access along the state’s entire 840-mile coast and ensures affordable accommodations are available to visitors. Even though the 1976 law was enacted decades before popular home sharing apps like AirBnB and Vrbo turned the vacation lodging industry on its head, a state appellate court Tuesday found it effectively protects the rights of private property owners to rent their coastal residences to vacationers. In an 11-page order, Seco...