Surfing and the Land Use Question

How the coastal land use decisions adjacent to California surf breaks affect the surf experience

The Question

The land use decisions made adjacent to California surf breaks -- the parking structures, the coastal access paths, the development that determines how many people can reach the break and what condition the coastal environment is in when they arrive -- are the governance decisions that the surf community has the most direct stake in and the least direct influence over. The surfer who cares about the break depends on the planning decisions of the coastal jurisdictions whose processes the surf community has historically not engaged.

The Engagement

The surf community engagement with coastal land use decisions has improved in the past decade as organisations like the Surfrider Foundation have built the specific institutional capacity to participate in the planning processes that determine coastal access and water quality at California surf breaks. The engagement produces specific outcomes when it is sustained and organised.

Surf LA Coverage

Surfing LA covers coastal land use because the accountability journalism of what happens to California surf breaks requires covering the governance decisions that affect them, and because the surf community's political engagement with those decisions is the mechanism through which the breaks are protected or lost.

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