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 City of Solana Beach
Section 3
Shoreline and Coastal Bluff Management Strategies Draft MEIR
Environmental Impact Analyses
of the adjacent coastal bluff. The external facade will resemble as closely as possible the
natural color and texture of the adjacent bluffs and be of sufficient depth to replicate the
retreat of the adjacent bluff due to weathering anticipated to be experienced over the next
75 years.
Landscape shall encourage the use of native vegetation that thrives on seasonal rain and
natural coastal moisture, and require minimum watering.
These requirements already ensure that, for purposes of the No Project Alternative, the visual
impacts of notch and seacave plugs and fills are already mitigated to less than significant levels.
Such measures, however, are not similarly effective with respect to the visual impacts of
seawalls and gunite covering. The following measures would further mitigate the effects of
notch and seacave fills/plugs, and would reduce to less than significant levels the direct visual
impacts of seawalls and gunite covering:
Seawalls should be designed and constructed with:
natural-looking facades with undulating forms and lines
coarse textures
Gunite covering should be designed and constructed with:
undulating form and lines
addition of planting pockets consisting of native vegetation to blend in with existing
adjacent vegetation
coarse textures
Seacave fills and plugs should be constructed with:
undulating form and lines
coarse textures
These recommendations would be consistent with the City's draft LCP and General Plan, Open
Space and Conservation Element goals, objectives, and policies to protect and enhance
sensitive open spaces and viewsheds.
Alternative 2 - Repeal of the Shoreline and Coastal Bluff Protection Ordinance
Alternative 2 would not promote the implementation of seacave plugging and filling over the
construction of seawalls, bluff retaining walls, gunite covering, and similar permanent armoring
for shoreline protection. Alternative 2, therefore, would result in significant direct visual impacts
associated with the implementation of seawalls or gunite covering. Future approvals for
shoreline protection would not be reviewed by the City under its current ordinance, which
prefers seacave plugging and filling; therefore, approval of shoreline protection would proceed
directly to the California Coastal Commission and would likely result in armoring the entire
Project No. 323530000
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