“Ord. 2 Definitions – Appealable Project. Everything you do with your house can be appealed by anyone to the executive director of the Coastal Commission for a hearing, including routine maintenance like brush clearance, minor remodels, pools, horses and ancillary uses and even your failure to eradicate all the non-native plants outside your fuel modification Zone A, which may be as narrow as 20 feet.
When I first read that, I thought, “Hey, that’s great. There will be a friendly director there willing to listen to my problems.” Then I reread it. It says “Everything you (I) do can be appealed by anyone.”
Are these bureaucrats encouraging my neighbors to rat on me? Why can a second party appeal to the executive director as to what I’m doing on my property? Is it to encourage frivolous complaints? Is it to encourage us to spy on each other? Is this the commission’s way of keeping control over my rights? Where is my City Council, which I elected?
My question to the California Coastal Commission is as follows: Since the purpose of the commission’s endorsement of AB 988 was to reduce the administrative burden on the commission (of which they have complained mightily and loudly), why did you, the commission, write an LCP wherein nearly all coastal development permits are appealable to the commission and wherein the commission retains final review per policies?
Kathy Greco