Description: California's coastal management program is carried out through a partnership between state and local governments. Each of the 15 counties and 61 cities located in whole or in part within the Coastal Zone is required to prepare a local coastal program (LCP) that specifies land use and zoning for their respective areas. After certification of an LCP, coastal development permit authority is delegated to the appropriate local government except in certain areas, and the Coastal Commission retains appellate authority over certain types of development and development approved by local governments in specified geographic areas. This dataset is an attributed, cadastral (parcel-based) digital representation of the system of roads designated and adopted as the First Public Road Paralleling the Sea (FPR) pursuant to California Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 30115 and California Code of Regulations (CCR) Sections 13011 and 13577(i). The FPR is of critical importance in both the regulatory and planning programs undertaken by the Coastal Commission and forms an essential component of the geographic jurisdiction where coastal development permits approved by local governments may be appealed to the Coastal Commission. The development of the FPR dataset is part of an effort to create updated digital cadastral jurisdictional boundary data. The FPR is the road nearest to the Sea, as defined in PRC Section 30115, which is lawfully open to uninterrupted public use and is suitable for such use, publicly maintained, an improved, all-weather road open to motor vehicle traffic in at least one direction, not subject to any restrictions on use by the public except when closed due to an emergency or when closed temporarily for military purposes, connects with other public roads providing a continuous public access system, and generally parallels and follows the shoreline of the sea so as to include all portions of the sea where the physical features such as bays, lagoons, estuaries and wetlands cause the waters of the sea to extend landward of the generally continuous coastline. The precise boundary of the FPR is intended to follow the inland or most landward rights of way of the designated roads.
Copyright Text: California Coastal Commission GIS/Mapping Unit.
Description: California's coastal management program is carried out through a partnership between state and local governments. Each of the 15 counties and 61 cities located in whole or in part within the Coastal Zone is required to prepare a local coastal program (LCP) that specifies land use and zoning for their respective areas. After certification of an LCP, coastal development permit authority is delegated to the appropriate local government except in certain areas, and the Coastal Commission retains appellate authority over certain types of development and development approved by local governments in specified geographic areas. This dataset is an attributed, cadastral (parcel-based) digital representation of the Coastal Commission's adopted Post LCP Certification geographic appeal jurisdiction boundary identified pursuant to Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 30603(a), PRC Section 30613, and California Code of Regulations (CCR) Sections 13577. The geographic appeal boundary is a critical element in both the regulatory and planning programs undertaken by the Coastal Commission and depicts areas where coastal development permits approved by local governments may be appealed to the Coastal Commission. The development of the geographic appeal boundary dataset is part of an effort to create updated digital cadastral jurisdiction boundaries. The appeal jurisdiction is defined in PRC Section 30603(a) as including areas between the sea and the first public road paralleling the sea (FPR) or within 300 feet of the inland extent of any beach or of the mean high tide line (MHTL) of the sea where there is no beach, whichever is the greater distance; areas located on tidelands, submerged lands or public trust lands, and areas within 100 feet of any wetland, estuary or stream, or within 300 feet of the top of the seaward face of any coastal bluff. California Code of Regulations Sections 13577(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) specify further definitions and boundary determination criteria for each of the geographic appeal jurisdiction boundary components.
Copyright Text: California Coastal Commission GIS/Mapping Unit.