SPECIAL REVIEW : The Coastal Commission Is Coming for Hermosa's Walk Streets
The Coastal Commission is quietly using building permits to force Hermosa Beach toward charging walk street and Strand homeowners annual fees for front yards they've maintained for generations. And finishing the city's Local Coastal Program is unlikely to save them.
Sacramento's most powerful land-use agency is squeezing homeowners permit by permit, deploying an ideology of 'equity' and 'access' to reshape a community it doesn't live in.
The conventional wisdom that certifying a Local Coastal Program would fix everything may be the most dangerous assumption of all.
If you live on one of Hermosa Beach's iconic walk streets or The Strand, the California Coastal Commission has a message for you: that front yard you've been enjoying for decades? It's not yours. And the Commission intends to make you pay for it.
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