Bill Text: CA SB671 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Coastal Act of 1976: natural shoreline.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB671 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB671-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 671	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Monning

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 30235 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to coastal resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 671, as introduced, Monning. California Coastal Act of 1976:
natural shoreline.
   The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires the planning and
regulation of development, under a coastal development permit
process, within the coastal zone, as defined, to be based on various
coastal resources planning and management policies set forth in the
act. Existing law allows the construction of revetments, breakwaters,
groins, harbor channels, seawalls, cliff retaining walls, and other
construction that alters natural shoreline processes when required to
serve coastal-dependent uses or to protect existing structures or
public beaches in danger from erosion and when designed to eliminate
or mitigate adverse impacts on local shoreline sand supply.
   This bill would additionally allow construction of those
structures when designed to account for sea level rise.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 30235 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   30235.  Revetments, breakwaters, groins, harbor channels,
seawalls, cliff retaining walls, and other  such 
construction that alters natural shoreline processes shall be
permitted when required to serve coastal-dependent uses or to protect
existing structures or public beaches in danger from erosion and
when designed to eliminate or mitigate adverse impacts on local
shoreline sand supply  or to account for sea level rise  .
Existing marine structures causing water stagnation contributing to
pollution problems and fishkills should be phased out or upgraded
where feasible.