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Did you know that beach wheelchairs are
offered for use at various locations?
Check on where you can borrow one.
- Media Release:
Coastal Commission Announces Agreement to Restore Damage to a
Historic Native American Village Site (January 11, 2012)
Coastal Commission fines Huntington Beach property owner $430,000 -- Goodell Family Trust also agrees to rebury artifacts and restore areas disturbed when archaeologists dug pits on family-owned land on the Bolsa Chica Mesa in 2010 (Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2012)
Recent Coastal Program Policy Briefings
to
the Commission
Open Meeting and Ex Parte Communication Legal Briefing
(presented at the January 12, 2012 hearing):
See the video of the staff presentation.
(In the right frame, click on the video icon for item 4,
allow it to load fully, then use the slider to scroll forward to 025:30:00.)
See the slides of the staff’s PowerPoint presentation.
Vertical Accessways
(presented at the January 12, 2012 hearing):
See the related report:
Status of Vertical Accessways Acquired by California Coastal Commission
Actions 1973 to 2011, December 2011 [30.6 MB PDF].
Read individual
chapters of this report.
See the video of the staff presentation.
(In the right frame, click on the video icon for item 4,
allow it to load fully, then use the slider to scroll forward to 01:08:00.)
See the slides
of the staff’s PowerPoint presentation.
Please note: the resolution of these slides is much better than
in the video, so you may want to listen to just the audio while viewing
the PowerPoint presentation.
View this
year's Coastal Photography Contest winning entries!

Oil Painting on a Summer Day, Big Sur, by Jason Yagyu
received an honorable mention.
Did you know that the California Coastal Commission is now offering a
40% discount
on permit application fees for green building projects?
Learn the
details!
The third volume in our series of coastal guides is now available!
This volume,
Beaches and Parks in Southern California,
includes sections on Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego Counties.
Here is the cover of this latest volume:

Take a peek at
sample pages from the Los Angeles
County chapter
and then
find out more!
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