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Coastal Commission votes to tear down illegal seawall, double recommended fine on Laguna Beach home-
Coastal Commission votes to tear down illegal seawall, double recommended fine on Laguna Beach homeowners to $1 millionEnvironmentalists are celebrating a precedent-setting vote Thursday by the California Coastal Commission to tear down a seawall protecting an oceanfront home in Laguna Beach.
After the previous owner received retroactive approval for the previously unpermitted seawall, Jeffrey and Tracy Katz bought the home on Victoria Beach. They performed an extensive remodel, which was completed in January and increased the value of the home from $14 million to $25 million.
But a condition of the commission’s seawall permit was that it be removed if there was new development on the site.
The commission is tasked by the Coastal Act with beach preservation and public access. It had previously approved the seawall to protect the home because the house was constructed before the 1977 Coastal Act.
Read more: https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/09/coastal-commission-votes-to-tear-down-illegal-seawall-double-recommended-fine-on-laguna-beach-homeowners-to-1-million/