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COASTAL COMMISSION
EXHIBIT # 41
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - THE RESOURCES AGENCY
ARNOLD
SCHWARZENEGGER G mor
CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION
Filed:
December 2l, 2008
South Coast Area Orrice
49th Day:
February 8, 2008
200 Oceangate, Suite 1000
180th Day:
June 18, 2008
Long Beach, CA 90802 -4302
(562) 590 -5071
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Staff.
Fernie Sy -LB
Staff Report:
May 29, 2008
Hearing Date:
June 11 -13, 2008
Commission Action:
STAFF REPORT: REGULAR CALENDAR
APPLICATION NO.: 5 -07 -327
APPLICANT: Richard J. Livoni Second Family Limited Partnership
AGENT: Brion Jeannette & Associates
PROJECT LOCATION: 3335 Ocean Boulevard, Corona del Mar
(Orange County)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Remove existing unpermitted retaining walls and beach access
stairway from bluff face, regrade lower bluff to natural contours, add
to residence a new caisson - supported deck with enclosed bathroom
and spa equipment room on upper bluff face, extend an existing
bluff face deck, and construct new at grade pathway from new deck
to beach. Grading will consist of 163 cubic yards of cut, 10 cubic
yards of fill, and 153 cubic yards of export to a location outside of
the Coastal Zone. Landscaping is also proposed.
SUMMARY OF STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
The subject site is located between the first public road and the sea in Corona del Mar (Newport
Beach) and is immediately inland of Corona del Mar State Beach, which is a public beach. The
application seeks removal of existing development and construction of new development on a
coastal bluff face within a lot currently developed with a single family residence. The primary
issues before the Commission are the appropriateness of approving the project given the
importance of preserving scenic resources and minimizing landform alteration, preventing
adverse impacts to public use of the beach and avoiding development in hazard prone locations.
Commission staff believe part of the development can be approved because that development is
consistent with other development approved by the Commission in the surrounding area.
However, part of the proposed project, a private pathway down the bluff face to the beach, is not
being proposed consistent with other such pathways that have been approved by the
Commission in the vicinity of the site, Thus, Commission staff do not support the new pathway.
Staff recommends that the Commission take one vote adopting a two -part resolution, which
would APPROVE removal of the existing unpermitted bluff face stairway and walls, regrading the
lower bluff to natural contours, landscaping, and construction of a new deck that would be in
alignment with surrounding approved decks; and DENY the proposed new private pathway from
the new deck, down the bluff face, to the beach.
Staff is recommending APPROVAL of the proposed project subject to ELEVEN (11) SPECIAL
CONDITIONS requiring: 1) an assumption of risk; 2) submittal of final project plans showing that