Carbon La Costa Beach Fencing Issues-June 2021
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 29/06/2021

This is a brief recounting of the May-June 2021 chapter of the ongoing saga to better coastal access along the Malibu coast in southern California.

Access to this particular segment of the shoreline is controlled by parcels owned by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority and supported by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.

In sum, private landowners proximate to these parcels erected an unapproved/unpermitted barrier fence to exclude access to the beach.  All beach and shorelines below mean higher high water (usually referenced as the "wet sand" region of the beach) are publicly accessible and usable under the Constitution of the State of California (only military bases, nuclear power plants, and similar areas with national security concerns are excluded).  This particular location has been in contention for more than three decades.

The parcels in question span Carbon Beach and La Costa Beach and are about 1 mile east (south-bound on PCH) of the Malibu Pier.

This testimony was provided to the Santa Monica Mountains Board on Monday, June 21, 2021. We were still battling to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic at this time, hence some images show face masks on employees.