Coastal Zone Information

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California’s

Coastal Zone

California Coastal Commission

***This slide presentation is intended to provide general

information only and is not intended to provide any particular

guidance for consideration of individual permits***

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ThisslidepresentationwaspreparedbytheCaliforniaCoastalCommission

usingFederalfundsunderawardNA17NOS4190057fromtheOfficefor

CoastalManagement,NationalOceanicandAtmosphericAdministration,U.S.

DepartmentofCommerce.

Thestatements,findings,conclusions,andrecommendationsarethoseofthe

authoranddonotnecessarilyreflecttheviewsofthe

NationalOceanicand

AtmosphericAdministrationortheU.S.DepartmentofCommerce.

Acknowledgement

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What is the Coastal Zone?

The Coastal Zone is a legislatively-defined

geographic region that establishes the

area regulated under the Coastal Act,

encompassing both land and water areas

along the length of the California

coastline from the Oregon border to the

Mexico border.

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California “Coastal Zone” Defined:

PerCoastalActSection30103,the“Coastalzone”isdefinedas…

“…thelandandwaterareaoftheStateofCaliforniafromtheOregonborder

totheborderoftheRepublicofMexico,specifiedonmaps[adoptedbythe

Statelegislature]…,extendingseawardtothestate’souterlimitof

jurisdiction,includingalloffshoreislands,andextendinginlandgenerally

1,000yardsfromthemeanhightidelineofthesea.

Insignificantcoastalestuarine,habitat,andrecreationalareasitextends

inlandtothefirstmajorridgelineparalleling theseaorfivemilesfromthe

meanhightidelineofthesea,

whicheverisless,and

indevelopedurbanareasthezonegenerallyextendsinlandlessthan1,000

yards.

ThecoastalzonedoesnotincludetheareaofjurisdictionoftheSanFrancisco

BayConservationandDevelopmentCommission…,noranyareacontiguous

thereto…,includingany[waterways]flowingintosucharea.”

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Seaward

CoastalZoneBoundary

extendsoffshoretothe

3‐milelimitof Statewaters

Inland

CoastalZoneBoundary

variesindistancefromthe

shorelineinbothurbanand

ruralareas

Where is the Coastal Zone?

Santa Cruz

Capitola

Aptos

La Selva Beach

Shoreline

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Land Portion of Coastal Zone

Statewide

Land

portion of

Coastal

Zone

shown in

red in the

15 coastal

counties

CoastalCounties

DelNorte

Humboldt

Mendocino

Sonoma

Marin

City/CoofSanFrancisco

SanMateo

SantaCruz

Monterey

SanLuisObispo

SantaBarbara

Ventura

LosAngeles

Orange

SanDiego

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ExampleofOfficialCZBMaps

CZBMap#80–MontereyPeninsula

Official Coastal Zone Boundary Maps

As required by Coastal Act section

30103(b), in March 1977 the Coastal

Commission adopted a set of one

hundred sixty-one 1: 24,000 scale maps

(1 inch = 2,000 feet) that serve as the

authoritative maps of the landward

portion of the Coastal Zone.

Attorney General opinion 79-1108 (63

Ops.Cal.Atty.Gen.107) confirmed that the

set of 161 maps as amended, rather than

the generalized language in the Coastal

Act, defines the geographic extent of the

Coastal Zone.

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MoreExamplesofOfficialCZBMaps

CZBMap#159–PointLoma

CZBMap#145–NewportHarbor

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Digitalmapsshowingthegeneralizedcoastalzone

boundarycanbefoundontheCommission’swebsite,at:

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/maps/czb/

Digital Coastal Zone Maps

LimitationsofUse:

Theboundarydepictedonthesedigitalmapswas

digitizedfromtheofficial1:24,000scaleCoastal

ZoneBoundarymaps,however,thedigitalmaps

ha venotbeenadoptedbytheCommission,and

donotsupersedetheofficialversionoftheCZB

mapsadoptedinMarch1977andsubsequently

amendedfrom

timetotime.

Thedataontheseonlinedigitalmapsdoesnot

represent"survey"accuracyinformationandmay

noteliminatetheneedforaformalboundary

determination.

Forboundarydeterminationinquiries,please

contacttheCommission’sMappingUnitorthe

Districtplannerforyourareaofinterest.

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Looking for

Resources ?

Photo: “Fluid Motion,” San Diego, by Ed Campbell

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Resources

Coastal Act Policies online on

California Legislative Information

website

California Coastal Commission

Regs - online on Westlaw

California Code of Regulations

For the Coastal Commission’s

mapping website, go to:

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/maps

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For more information on the

California Coastal Commission,

go to:

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/