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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
II. Significant Environmental Impacts That Can Be Avoided or Mitigated (Section 151 26[c]
of the State CEQA Guidelines) (Continued)
Category/
Alternative
Environmental Impacts
Mitigation
Recreation and Public Access
Alternatives1 & 2
Long-term Loss of Beach Width
This can be mitigated using artificial beach
replenishment provided the program is properly
designed to maintain a protective beach width
in front of the structures.
Reduction in Sediment Contribution to
This can be mitigated with ongoing beach
Littoral Zone
replenishment.
Beach Encroachment/Placement of the
This can be mitigated by locating the protective
Protection Structure
structure as close as possible to the base of
the seacliff.
Wave Reflection
This can be mitigated through proper design
techniques as described in Section 3.1.
Erosion of Tidal Terrace
This impact can be mitigated with sand
replenishment.
Alternative 2
Impacts from seawalls to recreation and
Alternative 2 is not as proactive as the City's
lateral beach access would be more
Shoreline and Bluff Protection Ordinance,
significant as compared to seacave and
which encourages seacave and notch fills over
notch fills. Seawalls could fix the
seawall construction in order to avoid the
landward boundary of the beach, reduce
greater environmental impacts associated with
the amount of beach, increase the
seawalls. The City of Solana Beach could
reflection of wave energy, and the
encourage the California Coastal Commission
erosion of the tidal terrace. Seacave and
to revise its current policy and take a more
notch fills, in contrast, could fix the
proactive approach to coastal bluff protection
landward boundary of the beach,
similar to the approach embodied in the City's
increase the reflection of wave energy,
Ordinance, which helps to reduce the impacts
and the erosion of the tidal terrace, but
of seawalls. However, since California Coastal
would not reduce the amount of beach
Commission policy changes are out of the
as would occur with seawalls.
control of the City of Solana Beach, this would
not be a feasible mitigation measure as far as
the City is concerned, though the Coastal
Commission itself could implement it.
Alternative 3
Potential loss of surfing opportunities
Loss of surfing opportunities resulting from the
with the construction of breakwaters and
construction of breakwaters could be mitigated
possible improvement to surfing at
with the construction of a separate artificial surf
nearby groins, which would require
reef, for the sole purpose of enhanced surfing
further study.
opportunities.
Project No. 323530000
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