From the Surfrider Foundation:
The California Legislature is considering a Bill that would dramatically undermine the ability of the Coastal Commission to protect our coast and ocean.
California Senate Bill 1295 (Ducheny) would strip the right of Coastal Commissioners to appeal development permits granted by local governments.
This oversight by the Coastal Commission is critical to fair and consistent enforcement of the Coastal Act. Senate Bill 1295, if enacted, would dramatically undermine this function and potentially allow numerous violations of the Coastal Act to “slip through the cracks.”
Tell the California Legislature that you oppose the weakening of the Coastal Commission’s oversight role and oppose Senate Bill 1295.
The Pacifica Riptide blog says This bill stinks
March 10, 2008 at 6:00 am
They will never give up, will they?
March 10, 2008 at 6:36 am
No, the coastal commission will never give up their unconstitutional power.
March 10, 2008 at 6:44 am
I would think you’d be a little more sympathetic to the bill, Heraldo. After all, it leans towards more “local control”, doesn’t it?
March 10, 2008 at 7:08 am
Here is a link to the site where you can easily voice your opposition to this bill.
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/cccauthority08?qp_source=an1
March 10, 2008 at 7:19 am
Bring it on… I hope it passes with flying colors!!!!!!! I’m tired of the Coastal Commission’s arbitrary appeal process. Heraldo, You have no idea how the Coastal Commission abuses this process. Poll the local planners around here and they’ll tell you!
March 10, 2008 at 7:28 am
Local control means MONEY gets what it wants and the rest of the people get no beaches. That is why the majority voted for the Coastal Commission in the first place. You regressives don’t give up, but neither do we.
March 10, 2008 at 7:43 am
Give me a huge break! No beaches?? Our local hill billy population takes pride in driving MILES through Plover habitat—– we have acres of local beaches. Give it up. Left wing nut and right wing nut jobs deserve no respect.
March 10, 2008 at 7:46 am
It looks like somebody who has more wealth, and more ambition than Arkley is going to try and cut off the head of the monster that stands between development and the protection of the California Coast line.
Arkley will be a collateral beneficiary of some other wealthy dudes quest to put luxury homes somewhere on the coast between San Diego and San Francisco.
-boy
March 10, 2008 at 7:53 am
7:43 thinks the California coastline ends at the southern border of Humboldt County. Idiots deserve no respect.
March 10, 2008 at 7:53 am
I think it’s a great idea, this way the moneyed interests will have front row seats for their tsunami viewing pleasure. blub blub blub .
March 10, 2008 at 8:10 am
Testy name calling, so where is the meat? Some minds seem to be seem to be frozen in the Ice Age.
r
March 10, 2008 at 8:17 am
Still not enough to draw Home depot here.
March 10, 2008 at 8:28 am
This bill smells as bad as fish rotting in the noon-day sun. Pea-ew. Coastal Commission prevail!
March 10, 2008 at 8:31 am
I signed the petition. It took less than a minute. Easy. Go Coastal Commission!
March 10, 2008 at 9:27 am
While I haven’t read the bill, and I believe the intent of the CCC is honorable and good, the CCC at the State level is corrupt and politically driven. If you live in Mendo, and you have money enough to hire an “agent” you can get pretty much anything you want pushed through the commission, i.e. Mcmansions on the edge of a cliff. Millions of public dollars are wasted every year on delays associated with dancing around arbitrary and sometimes petty CCC demands. CCC intent is good, execution needs to be rethought. Like the poster above said, ask your local planner.
March 10, 2008 at 9:37 am
Hey – well I support this bill.
March 10, 2008 at 9:46 am
Fix it, don’t scrap it.
March 10, 2008 at 10:31 am
Peace be with you
“local planner?” You mean developer don’t you. Of course the regulated want deregulation. Clear cut the forests, privatize the coastal lands, divert the rivers, strip mine the mountains, fence off the plains, GMO the food supply, fluoridate the drinking water, foreclose on the middle class, and jail and dope the poor. After two elections where our president was picked by diebold, now we’re being told that half of our “two-parties” presidential candidates will be picked by the elite.
Is this where those who support the killing of Iraqis and Afghanis for halliburton’s false profits remind us we don’t live in a democracy?
love eternal
tad
March 10, 2008 at 10:42 am
Tad, they often get “planner” and “developer” confused as part of the new era of “development-driven planning.”
Maybe it’s intentional.
March 10, 2008 at 10:49 am
Nope. Not developer. Planner. I’m as anti big-box as any of you, and definitely pro smart development, but I work with the commission and I believe the system is broken. It doesn’t need to be eliminated, but it needs to be de-politicized and fixed, and the commission itself needs to be held accountable for their decisions. They (at the state, not local level) are currently an appointed body accountable to noone. They also fairly routinely overturn local commission decisions.
March 10, 2008 at 11:13 am
So, neo, we can take it you work in the public sector, not a private business?
March 10, 2008 at 11:43 am
three cheers for the Surfrider Foundation. the surfriders helped clean up our bay. the perfect example for being ever- vigilant against the despoilers. Don’t ever expect industrialists/developers to clean up their messes.
March 10, 2008 at 1:50 pm
This is probably not Arkley’s work (the sponsor is a Democrat) but for him it is a wet dream. The reason we have the coastal commission with all its warts and blemishes, is that local government can be bought in a heartbeat as has happened in Eureka. I am going to send this alert to all my friends so they can oppose this piece of bad legislation.
March 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The Califorrnia Coastal Act was the result of a citizens ballot initiative in the early 70’s. The petition signature drive and the electoral campaign following were overwhelmingly staffed by volunteers.
What could be more truly democratic than that.
Of course people with narrow, monied self-interest don’t like the results– they can’t be bought and paid for.
Where do Sen. Wiggins & Assembly Member Berg stand?
March 10, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I can hardly wait for your witty post about (D) NY Governor Elliot Spitzer’s sex scandal. When might we expect it Heraldo?
March 10, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Buhne Babe must have gotten lost. This blog is about Humboldt County.
March 10, 2008 at 3:41 pm
What a bunch of egomaniacal morons you are; the CCC is nothing but a re-make of the SS under ADOLPH HITLER…
March 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I sent an email to Wiggins in opposition, but seriously, I don’t understand enough about this proposal to have a strong opinion. I hope Wiggins will look at it more closely and make a sound decision. After all that’s what she’s there for.
As I understand it the bill doesn’t take away the right to appeal a local action, it only eliminates the Commissioners from initiating an appeal. Maybe there’s a money issue involved, if making an appeal costs significant money that an individual isn’t likely to put up.
March 10, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Would that make the majority of the voters in California Nazis then 3:41?
March 10, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This is probably not Arkley’s work (the sponsor is a Democrat) but for him it is a wet dream.
In the California Assembly and Senate, the D’s and R’s are honorary titles. The right amount of green gets a bill written.
-boy
March 10, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Peace be with you
“What a bunch of egomaniacal morons you are; the CCC is nothing but a re-make of the SS under ADOLPH HITLER…”
Hitler killed “morons.” Are you expecting us to believe the CCC wants to do what the SS did? A leap of revisionist history don’t you think. The SS were cops, not environmentalists.
love eternal
tad
March 10, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The link is great and it does only take a few seconds.
I just got curious and googled Ducheny. Guess where her district is! The Imperial Valley!! We can go picket her Chula VIsta and El Centro offices.
March 10, 2008 at 5:57 pm
there must be a boatload of coastal projects set for consideration in El Centro………
does the colorado river count as the “coast”?
March 10, 2008 at 6:14 pm
The Colorado River doesn’t even count as a river at that point.
March 10, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Instead of following the link to the actionnetwork site, it is only slightly more difficult to google ‘wiggins + ca + senate’ to find her contact/feedback form. Here, I’ll do it for you:
Click here.
The info you fill out on her site is the same you give to the actionnetwork, but without getting a 3rd party involved. Cuts down on email. Although you could do both sites if you want maximum input as well as getting added to the surfrider mailing list.