Coastal Zone Management
Program Update
September 16, 2026; City Council Meeting
Program Overview
2 • Budgeting and Finance
• SANDAG Regional Shoreline Monitoring
Program
• CoastSnap and SandSnap Programs
• USACE San Diego County, CA Project
• Cardiff State Beach Living Shoreline Project
• Opportunistic Beach Fill Program/SCOUP
• SANDAG Regional Beach Sand Project III
• Public Beach Counter Program
• Marine Protected Areas
• Lagoon Management and Dredging
3 Budgeting and Finance
• Coastal Zone Management Program
funds are independent from
Development Services Overall
Budget
• Funds come from Transient
Occupancy Tax or TOT (20 percent
of the total taken in)
• Program heavily leverages Federal
and State funds to offset huge cost
of associated projects.
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Littoral Cells
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SANDAG Regional Shoreline
Monitoring Program
10 South Ponto
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13 San Diego County, CA Project
Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Project
And Taking Care Of People!
The San Diego County, CA
(Encinitas and Solana Beach)
Project is a 50-year effort to:
14 Project Purpose
Reduce coastal storm damages to property and infrastructure along the study area shoreline and the bluff top, prior to the need for emergency action.
Improve public safety in the study area by reducing the threat of lifethreatening bluff failures caused by wave action against the bluff toe. Reduce coastal erosion and shoreline narrowing to improve recreational opportunities for shoreline users within the study area. 15 Moonlight State Beach in March of 2024
16 Moonlight State Beach after project
installation
17 Fill Reach
DIVIDER SLIDE
18 Fill Reach
19 • SO-5 Volume Available (approx.): 8
MCY
• Total Authorized Project Volume
Needed:
• Encinitas 3-4 MCY
• Solana Beach 2-3 MCY
• Borrow Site Monitoring
• Seabed Morphology
• Benthic Habitat Quality
Borrow Site – SO5 and SO6
20 First pump out at Encinitas, Spring of 2024
Dozers trimming berm template
San Diego County, CA Project under construction of Winter/Spring of 2024 City of Encinitas
22 Monitoring Plan
• Physical Monitoring Plan
• Water Quality Monitoring Plan
• Habitat Monitoring Plan
• Biological Mitigation and Monitoring
Plan
• Grunion Monitoring and Avoidance
Plan
• Snowy Plover Monitoring and
Avoidance Plan
• Borrow Site Monitoring Plan
• Cultural Resources Monitoring Plan
• Noise Monitoring Plan
• Surf Monitoring Plan
23 Cardiff State Beach Living Shoreline
24 Cardiff State Beach
Living Shoreline location
Living Shoreline Project – Before and After Aerials
25 Before After
Living Shoreline Project – Meeting Flood and Roadway Damage Prevention Objectives 26 January February March
Imagery: Maria Winter, UCLA
Typical Dune Cross -section
27 Reestablishment of the erosion zone along the dune toe 28 Living Shoreline Project – Reestablished Project
29 1. Protect Highway 101
and Business
3. Improve Beach
Access and Experience
30 Statewide California Coastal
Commission field visit California Dunes Science Network and California Sea Grant
Public Outreach and Education
31 Opportunistic Beach Fill Program (OBFP)
Sand Compatibility and Opportunistic Use
Program (SCOUP)
SCOUP
32 Draft
33 Draft
34 Greystar
Assisted Living
SCOUP
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SANDAG Regional Beach Sand
Project III (RBSP III)
Moonlight State Beach 2001
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41 Public Beach Counter Program
42 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
and State Ecological Reserves
43 Lagoon Management and
Dredging
44 QUESTIONS?
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