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Design Review Board approves reconstruction of storm-damaged private stairway at 1173 Marine Drive
Summary
Laguna Beach Design Review Board approved plans to replace a storm-damaged private beach access stairway at 1173 Marine Drive, finding the repair exempt from CEQA and allowable as in-kind reconstruction of a pre-Coastal Act structure.
The Laguna Beach Design Review Board on Wednesday approved a plan to reconstruct a private beach-access stairway destroyed in a May 2023 storm at 1173 Marine Drive, finding the repair exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.
The board voted unanimously to adopt staff recommendations that the stairway, described by staff as a pre-Coastal Act, nonconforming encroachment, may be rebuilt “in the same location and size,” and that the…
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