Land Resources
Known as the California Coastal Act
The act spans §§ 30000–30900 (326 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 151 Cal. App. 4th 427 - Lt-Wr, LLC v. California Coastal Com'n (2007)
Most recently applied in 250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 397 - Hubbard v. Coastal Comm'n (July 2019)
Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 285, Sec. 4.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Environmentally sensitive habitat areas shall be protected against any significant disruption of habitat values, and only uses dependent on those resources shall be allowed within those areas.
(b) Development in areas adjacent to environmentally sensitive habitat areas and parks and recreation areas shall be sited and designed to prevent impacts which would significantly degrade those areas, and shall be compatible with the continuance of those habitat and recreation areas.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.