Think tank Circulate San Diego's report 'Better Coastal Commission' cites examples of the agency blocking bike lanes and delaying housing permits by as much as four years.
The nonprofit think tank Circulate San Diego released a report Friday that takes aim at the California Coastal Commission and its broad authority to delay or block approvals of new housing., which is tasked with preserving natural resources and protecting coastal access. The agency has jurisdiction over roughly 1.5 million acres along the coastline extending as far as five miles inland.and withholding approval of mixed-income apartment buildings by as much as four years.
One case study in the report is a project that would replace a vacant fast food restaurant in Los Angeles with 39 apartments, eight of which would be set aside as affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. The project won unanimous approval from the LA City Council in March 2021. Then a group of nearby residents appealed that approval to the Coastal Commission. More than two and a half years later, the commission ultimately decided the appeal
"There's an abandoned Burger King just sitting on that property," Moore said."And the Coastal Commission doesn't take that sort of impact on a community into account when they're delaying projects for two, three years at a time for what turns out to be no good reason.", that would require the Coastal Commission to streamline approvals of housing developments that use the state's affordable housing density bonus law.
Coastal Commission spokesman Joshua Emerson Smith told KPBS in a statement:"Circulate San Diego, which is funded by the real estate industry, has provided no credible evidence for its deeply offensive assertion that the commission has exacerbated racial segregation in coastal communities. Density bonus projects are regularly approved in the coastal zone every year, and the commission is not aware of ever having denied such a project.
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