The California Court of Appeal in Ventura has ruled that the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District overstepped its authority when it required that Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area get an air permit in order to operate.
READ MOREThe 2nd District Court of Appeal has rejected a request by two government agencies to settle a lawsuit over a local regulation intended to reduce dust blowing onto the Nipomo Mesa from Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area.
READ MOREGhandour said the 10-2 vote Friday by the Coastal Commission to grant a permit for the Monterey Bay Shores Resort — a hotel and condominium project touted as having an advanced environmentally sustainable design — ensures that he will “push very hard” to comply with permit conditions so construction can start soon.
READ MORESanta Barbara In the end, it took four minutes Friday for the state Coastal Commission to settle a decades-old dispute over a proposed coastal hotel-condominium resort in Sand City.
READ MOREA San Francisco judge Friday ordered the state Coastal Commission to again consider a long-pursued permit for a beachfront hotel-resort in Sand City.condominium resort in Sand City.
READ MOREA long-proposed Sand City beachfront hotel-resort won a victory in a state appeals court this week, while awaiting another decision in San Francisco Superior Court.
READ MOREThe rule requires implementation of dust control measures in portions of the state riding park in which vehicle activity occurs. It allows State Parks to be fined up to $1,000 a day if dust emissions from the park exceed natural background levels.
READ MORECiting late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who said “wise adjudication has its own time for ripening,” a state Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a San Luis Obispo Superior Court decision that it is too late to review a coastal development permit issued in 1982 that allows off-highway vehicles on a 584-acre, county-owned parcel, called the La Grande Tract, within the park.
READ MOREThe local chapter of the Sierra Club says it plans to appeal a recent Superior Court ruling that maintains the status quo for off-highway vehicle riding at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area.
READ MOREA Sand City beachfront hotel-resort, touted as the model of environmental sensitivity by a developer who has spent 17 years pursuing the project, once again is entangled in the courts with the state Coastal Commission.
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