22.44.2180
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Coastal zone of Los Angeles County
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Structures prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. on bluff faces
New structures shall be prohibited on bluff faces, except for stairs or accessways to provide public beach access.
- Protection of sensitive marine and beach habitats
Development in areas adjacent to sensitive marine and beach habitats shall be sited and designed to prevent impacts that could significantly degrade the environmentally sensitive habitats.
- Lagoon breaching prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Lagoon breaching or water level modification shall not be permitted, unless it can be demonstrated that there is a health or safety emergency
Other
- Coastal development permit required
any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone ... shall obtain a coastal development permit.
- Deed restriction required for hazard acknowledgment
the property owner shall be required to execute and record a deed restriction which acknowledges and assumes said risks
- Deed restriction prohibiting future shoreline protection
the property owner shall be required to record a deed restriction against the property that ensures that no shoreline protection structure shall be proposed or constructed to protect the development approved
- Deed restriction for shoreline protection structures
the property owner shall be required to acknowledge, by the recordation of a deed restriction, that no future repair or maintenance, enhancement, reinforcement, or any other activity affecting the shoreline protection structure which extends the seaward footprint of the subject structure shall be undertaken
- Minimum interval for public vertical beach accessways300 ft
Public vertical beach accessways shall be incorporated into the design of these protective structures at intervals of no less than 300 linear feet.
- Double wall construction with subdrains and leak detection for pools and spas
all swimming pools and spas shall be of double wall construction with subdrains between the walls and leak detection systems.
- Public access to shoreline required
Public access from the nearest public roadway to the shoreline (vertical public access) and along the coast (lateral public access) shall be provided in new development projects except where: (1) it is inconsistent with public safety, military security needs, or the protection of fragile coastal resources; (2) adequate access exists nearby; or (3) agriculture would be adversely affected.
- Design for sea level rise
New development shall be sited and designed to ensure that it is not adversely affected by impacts from climate change, including the potential impacts from continued and accelerated sea level rise
- Secondary treatment waste disposal required
New development shall include, at a minimum, the use of secondary treatment waste disposal systems
- Shoreline protection devices permitted only under conditions
Shoreline protective devices including revetments, breakwaters, groins, harbor channels, seawalls, cliff retaining walls, and other such construction that alters natural shoreline processes shall be permitted only when required to serve coastal-dependent uses or to protect existing structures or public beaches in danger from erosion
- Soft solutions required for shoreline protection
On any beach found to be appropriate, alternative 'soft solutions' to the placement of shoreline protection structures shall be required to protect existing development.
From the ordinance
All new beachfront and bluff-top development shall be sized, sited and designed to minimize risk from wave run-up, flooding and beach and bluff erosion hazards without requiring a shoreline protection structure at any time during the life of the development.