ActCoastal is a campaign to protect California's coast and the public's right to access it by holding the California Coastal Commission accountable to its mission. Each month, we track and report on the Commission's most consequential votes on coastal conservation, environmental justice, and public access — rating each decision pro-coast or anti-coast — so Californians can judge whether their Commissioners are living up to the public trust and the promises of the Coastal Act. These monthly voting reports inform an annual report card that has been published continuously for over 20 years.
The Commission met November 4–6 in San Francisco, where it addressed coastal adaptation in Santa Cruz, hosted a Local Government Working Group workshop on sea level rise, and approved “one of the largest encroachment impacts the Commission has ever considered in a single CDP” to protect an endangered beachfront rail segment in San Clemente.