re: #416 Gus 802

It’s not trivial if you consider the cumulative environmental impact if they allowed every land owner the right to develop alongside the protected California Coastline. Consider the comment from Sara Christie, the Coastal Commission’s legislative director, “If we start letting the law slide in individual cases, cumulatively the result of that will be a statewide loss of public access and coastal resources…”

If they were to allow the McNamees’s a variance then it would open up the coast to further infringement into the coastal zone and their beach is also located within Corona Del Mar State Beach. Others would then seek to build improvements in the zone and it could include fencing or many other improvement that do not fit the requirements of the coastal environment.

developing was not the point, from what I read…a shed and picnic table hardly ruins the treasured ambience of the fabled CA shore…it’s bullshit