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 City of Solana Beach
Shoreline and Coastal Bluff Management Strategies Draft MEIR
Summary
Table S-1 (continued)
Summary of Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures
I. Unavoidable Significant Environmental Impacts Associated with
Alternatives Without Changes to Fully Mitigate Them
(Lead Agency must issue "Statement of Overriding Considerations" under
Section 15093 and 15126[b] of the State CEQA Guidelines if the Agency
determines these effects are significant and wishes to select this Alternative)
(Continued)
Category/
Alternative
Environmental Impacts
Alternative 4 (Continued):
Land Use (Continued)
The City would be unable to implement
this alternative on its own without a
change in state law, which currently
requires the California Coastal
Commission to continue to approve
shoreline and coastal bluff protection
structures under certain circumstances.
Thus, even if the City believed that a
Planned Retreat policy were the best
means of addressing coastal erosion
problems, the Coastal Commission's
current mandate would frustrate such an
approach by requiring the continuing
approval of seawalls and other protective
structures when erosion problems
required the approval of such structures
in order to protect bluff-top properties.
Furthermore, even if state law were
changed so that this alternative could be
implemented, the City and Coastal
Commission would likely face privately
initiated litigation from bluff-top property
owners alleging the taking of their private
property without just compensation. The
outcome of such litigation is impossible to
predict.
This alternative would also require the
Impact to population and housing under this
Population and
purchase of the land and/or property
alternative cannot be fully mitigated to less
Housing
seaward of the planned retreat lines as
than significant levels. To compensate
property became increasingly threatened
homeowners for the loss of their property, the
and dangerous to inhabit. This
City, state, or other responsible agency shall
alternative would have adverse
be required to purchase at full market value.
cumulative impacts in the long term to
both population and housing because
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