1.Walk
2.Bike
3.Skateboard
4.Car
5.Horse
6.Motorcycle
7.Airplane
8.Other
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
5 B.What is your gender?...
1.Female
2.Male
C. What is your age?
1.18 and under
2.19-35
3.36-50
4.51-70
5.Over 70
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
6 D. Where do you live?
1.Pismo Beach/Shell Beach
2.Arroyo Grande
3.Grover Beach
4.Oceano
5.Avila Beach / Avila Bay
6.Nipomo / Nipomo Mesa
7.San Luis Obispo
8.Other
E. How long have you lived on the
Central Coast?
1.Less than 1 year
2.1 -4 years
3.5 -10 years
4.11 -20 years
5.More than 20 years
6.Not Applicable
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
7 F. How often do you walk for a significant
distance, i.e., more than 5 minutes for a
single trip?
1.Never
2.1-3 times per month
3.1-3 times per week
4.4+ times per week
G. How often do you bike for any purpose?
1.Never
2.1-3 times per month
3.1-3 times per week
4.4+ times per week
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Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
8 H. How often do you drive in Pismo Beach?
1.Never
2.1-3 times per month
3.1-3 times per week
4.4+ times per week
Key Documents
1992
Circulation Element & Local Coastal Plan
2009
Shell Beach Road Streetscape Plan
2010
Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan
2013
Complete Streets Plan
2014
• BikeshareFeasibility Study
•Downtown Strategic Plan
•Climate Action Plan
•SLOCOG RTP
•US 101 Corridor Mobility Master Plan
2016
•Downtown ParkingEnhancements/ Management Plan
• Circulation Study
• Travel DemandModel Update
Update Circ.
Elem.
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
9 I. Did you attend any workshops or participate in
the development of any of the following studies?
(select all that apply)
1.Circulation Element & LocalCoastal Plan (1992)
2.Shell Beach RoadStreetscape Plan (2009)
3.Bicycle & PedestrianMaster Plan (2010)
4.Complete Streets Plan(2013)
J. Did you attend any workshops or participate in
the development of any of the following studies?
(select all that apply)
1.Bikeshare Feasibility Study (2014)
2.Downtown Strategic Plan (2014)
3.Climate Action Plan (2014)
4.SLOCOG RTP (2014)
5.US 101 Corridor Mobility Master Plan(2014)
6.Downtown Parking Enhancements /Management Plan (2016)
7.Circulation Study (2016)
8.Travel Demand Model Update (2016)
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Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
10 Existing Conditions
Previous Study Findings
Ø Multimodal Facilities Lack Connectivity
Ø Access Constraints
Ø US 101
Ø Pismo Creek
Ø Railroad Tracks (UPRR)
Ø Congestion on US 101 & Downtown
Ø Seasonal Peaks & Parking Demand
Photo Credit: ColCobb & Co.
Existing Bicycle Facilities
Class II Bike Lanes throughout City,
Lack connectivity between Trails and to Regional connections, Bob Jones & Coastal Trail
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Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
11 Existing Pedestrian Facilities
Need for continuous sidewalks and marked crossings outside of Downtown; Need connectivity from residential areas to Beach and Downtown Existing Transit Routes
Avila Beach Trolley is seasonal; Many routes serving 5 Cities Area & Pismo Outlets Couth County Limited Routes serving Shell Beach, Downtown, connecting Arroyo Grande
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
12 Existing Level of Service
(LOS) Results
Current City LOS Policy is “C” Circulation Study Findings:
Existing Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
13 Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
Existing Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
Existing Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
14 Year 2035 Buildout Level of
Service (LOS) Results
Current City LOS Policy is “C” Circulation Study Findings:
Year 2035
Buildout Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
15 Year 2035
Buildout Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
Current LOS Policy is “C”
v PM Peak
v Sunday Mid-day Peak
v Sunday before Memorial
Day Mid-day Peak
Year 2035
Buildout Level
of Service
(LOS) Results
Attachment #4 –PowerPoint Presentation
with Polling Results
Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
16 Multimodal
Recommendations
Ø Class I Trail along Shell Beach
Road
Ø Class IV along Price & Dolliver
Ø Roundabout at Dolliver/Price
St/US 101 SB
Ø Pedestrian Scramble at Signals
Downtown
Ø Enhance Crosswalks
Ø Extend Boardwalk/Promenade
Ø Bicycle Boulevard on Cypress St
K. We have presented our understanding of existing conditions and a summary of recommendations from a number planning studies that have been prepared over recent years.To what extent do you support/oppose the recommendations of those studies?
1.Strongly Support
2.Support
3.Somewhat Support
4.Neutral
5.Somewhat Oppose
6.Oppose
7.Strongly Oppose
8.Not sure
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
17 ”
“
Ø James Way Extension to Price
Canyon Road
Ø Price Street Extension to 5 CitiesDrive
Ø James Way Extension to PriceStreet
Ø Mattie Road Extension to Bello
Street
Ø Pier Area Improvements
Ø Frady Lane Realignment
Ø One-Way Couplet for Stimson
Avenue & Ocean View Avenue
L. Like it or not Pismo Beach is a popular place to come and recreate, particularly during the summer.Traffic congestion during the summer quite frankly, would be too costly to mitigate if it were possible at all. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on other ways to improve mobility in the downtown?
1.Yes
2.No
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with Polling Results
Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
18 M. Do you have any ideas or suggestions
on how we might improve mobility in the
rest of the City, outside of downtown?
1.Yes
2.No
N. Should the City pursue circulation improvements
that helps circulation during ‘normal’ (off-season)
weekday morning and evening peak hours?
1.Yes
2.No
3.Depends
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
19 O. Would you like to have US 101 widened through the City of Pismo Beach, recognizing that such widening
will affect adjacent existing developed properties?
1.Yes
2.No
3.Depends
P. To what extent would you support/oppose
extending James Way to Price Canyon Road?
1.Strongly Support
2.Support
3.Somewhat Support
4.Neutral
5.Somewhat Oppose
6.Oppose
7.Strongly Oppose
8.Not sure
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with Polling Results
Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
20 Q. To what extent would you support/oppose
extending Price Street to 5 Cities Drive?
1.Strongly Support
2.Support
3.Somewhat Support
4.Neutral
5.Somewhat Oppose
6.Oppose
7.Strongly Oppose
8.Not sure
R. To what extent would you support/oppose
connecting Price Street to James Way?
1.Strongly Support
2.Support
3.Somewhat Support
4.Neutral
5.Somewhat Oppose
6.Oppose
7.Strongly Oppose
8.Not sure
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
21 S. To what extent would you
support/oppose a one-way couplet for
Stimson Avenue & Ocean View Avenue?
1.Strongly Support
2.Support
3.Somewhat Support
4.Neutral
5.Somewhat Oppose
6.Oppose
7.Strongly Oppose
8.Not sure
Update Circulation Policies
Highlight of several policies for reevaluation include:
Ø Level of Service Policy
Ø Consider LOS “D” during average weekday
Ø Consider LOS “E/F” during Peak Season Weekends for Downtown Ø Reevaluate need for New Inland Arterial
Ø Consider Petition for Caltrans relinquishment of SR 1 to the City Ø Consider Policy for Caltrans to continue to pursue
capacity enhancements for US 101 through the City
Ø Widening to 6 Lanes,
Ø Auxiliary Lanes,
Ø Ramp Metering,
Ø Managed Lanes, etc.
All Current Policies need to
be reevaluated and updated!
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with Polling Results
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Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
22 QUESTIONS?
T. How useful was this interactive
workshop?
1.Not at all useful
2.Not very useful
3.Somewhat useful
4.Useful
5.Very Useful
Attachment #5 – Workshop Comments
Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
Crossing Shell Beach Road at night is difficult due to parking on the east side of the road and poor lighting
Wayfinding signage is poor and visitor center signs are lacking.
Pismo Beach is a tourist town and traffic may not be typical. The highest traffic is the leaving pattern on Sunday.
Previous circulation study was seriously flawed
The problem with a roundabout at Dolliver/Price/101 is the hook ramp. Don’t trust Caltrans and concerned expressed that they would close Hinds off ramp.
Opposed to more bike lanes
Concerned with eliminating parking Pismo Beach is very dependent on tours being able to park.
2.7 million visitors annually to downtown
Generally, in favor of enhanced crosswalks and pedestrian scrambles Meant there’s many times there are no bikes ‐ cars need lanes Previous efforts felt like they had to force some improvements forward.
Try to divert traffic and other routes to downtown– eastbound Hinds westbound Pomeroy Right turn at Hinds etc. was never really tried
With no hotel 200 block of Pomeroy is keys need better wayfinding signing Need new signs Stimson/Dolliver and Oceanview/Dolliver
Satellite parking is needed with shuttles to beach
Parking structure at Dolliver and main is being looked at Turn signal at Price would be helpful and more morning traffic Consider Stimson and Ocean view as couplet
Wayfinding to Pismo preserve would be helpful
Attachment #5 – Workshop Comments
Pismo Beach Circulation Element Update
Workshop #1
September 20, 2017
Bad studies historically, we keep seeing bad model used. Mr. H should have been right word Price Street extension came with too many other elements. Merchants are really opposed it.
Too much construction disruption.
Price Street to James Way connection is business to residential. Makes more sense to do price Street to 5 Cities Dr. which is business to business
Bello Street bridge might be reopened
Stimson– Ocean view one‐way couplet discussed. Rick expressed concern about this idea.
Caltrans plans not talked about gas wrap changes, cloverleaf, etc.
Picking out periods is key. Pick good days/events.
Counter is useful third week in June’s to second week in August.
Oppose one‐way couplet at Stimson and Ocean View
SR1 relinquishment should be priority for Caltrans
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FIGURE B-1
AUGUST 2021-
11229880
EXISTING PM PEAK HOURTURNING MOVEMENT
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CIRCULATION ELEMENT UPDATE
CITY OF PISMO BEACH
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Data source: World Light Gray Canvas Base: San Luis Obispo County, Bureau of Land Management, Esri, HERE, Garmin, INCREMENT P, USGS, EPA; Roads:TIGER, 2020.Created by: pthornton oMap Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
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FIGURE B-2
AUGUST 2021-
11229880CITY OF PISMO BEACH
CIRCULATION ELEMENT UPDATE
CUMULATIVE PM PEAK HOUR TURNING
MOVEMENT COUNTS
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Data source: World Light Gray Canvas Base: San Luis Obispo County, Bureau of Land Management, Esri, HERE, Garmin, INCREMENT P, USGS, EPA; Roads:TIGER, 2020.Created by: pthornton oMap Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
Horizontal Datum: North American 1983Grid: NAD 1983 StatePlane California V FIPS 0405 Feet N:\US\San Luis Obispo\Projects\561\11229880\GIS\Maps\Deliverables\TrafficGraphics\Pro_Template\BD_TrafficGraphics_v2.aprxPrint date: 09 Aug 2021 - 12:59 Date
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5 APPENDIX B: CUMULATIVE PEAK HOUR TURNING MOVEMENTS
Google Maps
Price Street Extension to Five Cities Drive
•Removes Price Street On Ramp to US 101 SB
•Removes Hinds Avenue Off Ramp from US 101 SB
•Adds On-Ramp at Dolliver Roundabout (Caltrans preferred) •Adds additional left turn to On-Ramp at Pismo Outlets
•Provides frontage access reducing usage of US 101 to cross Pismo Creek
Legend:
Roadway Extension
Corresponding Roadway Addition
Intersection Improvement
Ramp Removal
Turn Lane Addition
APPENDIX C:
Pismo Creek Crossing Alternatives
Google Maps
James Way Extension to Price Canyon Road
•Removes US 101 NB Off Ramp to Price Street
•Relocates On/Off Ramp to Highland Drive
•Realigns James Way-5 Cities Drive connection to provide full access •Provides frontage access reducing usage of US 101 to cross Pismo Creek
Legend:
Roadway Extension
Corresponding Roadway Addition
Intersection Improvement
Ramp Removal
APPENDIX C:
Pismo Creek Crossing Alternatives
Google Maps
James Way Extension to Price Street
•Removes US 101 NB Off Ramp to Price Street
•Relocates On/Off Ramp to Highland Drive
•Realigns James Way-5 Cities Drive connection to provide full access •Provides frontage access reducing usage of US 101 to cross Pismo Creek
Legend:
Roadway Extension
Corresponding Roadway Addition
Intersection Improvement
Ramp Removal
APPENDIX C:
Pismo Creek Crossing Alternatives
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Glossary
G-1
GLOSSARY
This glossary provides definitions of terms and phrases that are specialized for the purposes of the General Plan/Local Coastal Program or may not reflect common usage. The definitions in this glossary serve to ensure the consistent and intended interpretation and application of the policies in the General Plan but do not provide permit requirements, review procedures, or development/performance standards.
In addition to the terms and phrases in this glossary, the following key serves to assist in the interpretation and application of the policies in the General Plan.
Key:
• City (with a capital “C”): “City” refers to the City of Pismo Beach. • Coastal Commission (CCC): “Coastal Commission” refers to the California Coastal Commission.
• Examples: Examples listed are not an exhaustive list. • Executive Director: “Executive Director” refers to the Executive Director of the Coastal Commission.
• Shall, May, and Should: “Shall” refers to mandatory. “May” refers to permissive. “Should” refers to policy guidance that shall be followed in the absence of compelling, opposing consideration identified by the City.
• Singular and Plural: The singular number includes the plural number; the plural number includes the singular number.
• State (with a capital “S”): “State” refers to the State of California. • Tenses: The present tense includes the past and future tenses; the future tense includes the present tense.
Accessory Structure: A structure that is physically detached from, secondary and incidental to, and associated with the primary structure on the same lot. Examples include, but are not limited to, carports, garages, tennis courts, pools, walkways, gazebos, patios, and decks.
Active Recreation: Recreational activity that is primarily physical and requires the use of organized play areas. Examples include, but are not limited to, basketball, tennis, volleyball, softball, soccer, and golf.
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Adjacent Structure: A structure located on a separate lot contiguous (sharing a property line) with the proposed structure or development.
Armor: To fortify development or geographical features to protect it from the effects of waves, erosion, or other natural forces (example: constructing a wall to armor the base of a coastal bluff) or to construct a feature (example: seawall, dike, or levee) to protect development or geographical features from waves, erosion, or other natural forces.
Beach: The expanse of sand, gravel, cobble, or other loose material that extends landward from the low water line to the place where there is a distinct linear feature (e.g. a seawall, road, or bluff, etc.), the inland edge of the furthest inland beach berm as determined from historical records, or the furthest point separating the dynamic portion of the beach from the inland area as distinguished by vegetation or other geological or historical evidence.
Beachfront: An area of land that is adjacent to or upon the beach.
Beach Cleaning: The mechanical raking or sifting of beach sand to remove debris or litter or level or re-contour the beach.
Bluff Face: The portion of a bluff between the bluff edge and the toe of the bluff. It is the steep surface of rock, decomposed rock, sediment, or soil resulting from erosion, faulting, folding, uplifting, or excavation of the land mass. The bluff face may be a simple planar or curved surface or it may be step-like in sections.
Bluff Protective Device: A structure or other device, including seacave/notch infills, dripline infill, coastal structures, upper bluff systems, and temporary emergency devices, designed to retain the bluff and protect a bluff home or other structure or coastal dependent use from the effects of wave action erosion and other natural forces.
Bluff Toe: A demarcation line along the bottom of a bluff, requiring field verification, such that the slope above the line exceeds 18% and the slope below the line is 18% or less, measured over a horizontal distance of 25 feet.
Bluff Top Retreat: The landward migration of the bluff or cliff edge caused by marine erosion of the bluff or cliff toe and other forms of erosion of the bluff face.
Breakwater: An offshore structure, often parallel to the shore, that protects a shore area, harbor, anchorage, or basin from waves.
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): State law (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.) requiring public agencies to document and consider the environmental effects of a proposed action, prior to allowing the action to occur.
Central Commercial Land Use Designation: Areas for intensive retail commercial, recreational, and cultural uses, oriented towards pedestrian visitors.
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Coastal Access: The ability of the general population to reach, use, or view the shoreline, beach, or coastal recreation areas.
Coastal Act: The California Coastal Act of 1976, as amended, and corresponding regulations codified in California Public Resources Code Section 30000 et seq. and Title 14 California Code of Regulations Section 13001 et seq., respectively.
Coastal Bluff: A landform that includes a scarp or steep face of rock adjacent to the bay or ocean and meeting one of two parameters:
1. The toe is now or was historically (generally within the last 200 years) subject to marine erosion.
2. Bluff line or edge shall be defined as the upper termination of a bluff, cliff, or seacliff. In cases where the top edge of the cliff is rounded away from the face of the cliff as a result of erosional processes related to the presence of the steep cliff face, the bluff line or edge shall be defined as that point nearest the cliff beyond which the downward gradient of the surface increases more or less continuously until it reaches the general gradient of the cliff. In a case where there is a steplike feature at the top of the cliff face, the landward edge of the topmost riser shall be taken to be the cliff edge. The terminus of the bluff line, or edge along the seaward face of the bluff, shall be defined as a point reached by bisecting the angle formed by a line coinciding with the general trend of the bluff line along the seaward face of the bluff, and a line coinciding with the general trend of the bluff line along the inland facing portion of the bluff. Five hundred feet shall be the minimum length of bluff line or edge to be used in making these determinations.
Coastal Bluff Edge: The upper termination of a bluff, cliff, or seacliff. In cases where the top edge of the bluff is rounded away from the face of the bluff the bluff edge shall be defined as that point nearest the bluff face beyond which a downward gradient is maintained continuously to the toe of the bluff. In a case where there is a step like feature at the top of the bluff, the landward edge of the topmost riser shall be considered the bluff edge. The bluff edge may change over time as the result of erosional processes, landslide, or artificial cut. Artificial fill placed near the bluff edge, or extending over the bluff edge, does not alter the position of the bluff edge. In those cases where irregularities, structures, or bluff stabilizing devices exist in a subject property so that a reliable determination of the bluff edge cannot be made by visual or topographic evidence, the Community Development Director, or Coastal Commission, on appeal, shall determine the location of the bluff edge after evaluation of a geologic or soils report and physical inspection of the site.
Coastal-Dependent Development or Use: Any development or use that requires a site on, or adjacent to, the sea to be able to function at all.
Coastal Development Permit (CDP): A permit for any development within the Coastal Zone issued by the Coastal Commission or by the City in accordance with the certified Local Coastal Program.
Coastal Flooding: Temporary flooding due to high water level events caused by one or more of the following: high tides, storm surge (a rise above normal water level during storms), and/or sea level rise.
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Coastal Resources: A general term used to refer to those resources addressed in Chapter 3 of the California Coastal Act, including the ocean, beaches, wetlands, agricultural lands, and other coastal habitats; certain types of coastal development; public access and recreation opportunities; cultural, archaeological, and paleontological resources; and scenic and visual resources.
Coastal resources also include, but are not limited to, public access facilities and opportunities, recreation areas and recreational facilities (including for recreational water-oriented activities), coastal-dependent and coastal-related uses, public views, natural landforms, marine resources, watercourses (example: rivers, streams, and creeks) and their related corridors, water bodies (example: wetlands, estuaries, and lakes) and their related uplands, groundwater resources, biological resources, environmentally sensitive habitat areas, and archeological and paleontological resources.
Coastal Zone: The land and water area established by the State Legislature, as defined in the California Coastal Act, extending seaward to the state's outer limit of jurisdiction, including all offshore islands, and extending inland generally 1,000 yards from the mean high tide line of the sea. In significant coastal estuarine, habitat, and recreational areas it extends inland to the first major ridgeline paralleling the sea or 5 miles from the mean high tide line of the sea, whichever is less, and in developed urban areas the zone generally extends inland less than 1,000 yards (California Public Resources Code Section 30103).
Commercial Land Use Designation: Areas that are appropriate for pedestrian-scale retail shopping, office, visitor-serving, cultural, and personal service uses. The maximum allowable floor area ratio for commercial development is 2.0.
Complete Streets: Streets that comfortably accommodate all users, with particular emphasis on pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transportation, as well as people of all ages and physical abilities. The Complete Streets Act of 2008 requires circulation elements to incorporate multimodal transportation into the General Plan.
Day: A calendar day, not a business day.
Development: On land or in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge or disposal of any dredged material or any gaseous liquid, solid, or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining, or extraction of any materials; change in the density or intensity of use of land, including, but not limited to, subdivision pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act (commencing with Section 66410 of the Government Code), and any other division of land, including lot splits, except where the land division is brought about in connection with the purchase of such land by a public agency for public recreational use; change in the intensity of use of water, or of access thereto; construction, reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any structure, including any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility; and the removal or harvesting of major vegetation other than for agricultural purposes, kelp harvesting, and timber operations that are in accordance with a timber harvesting plan submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 (commencing with Section 4511). For the purpose of this definition, “structure” includes, but is not limited to, any building, road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line, and electrical power transmission and distribution line.
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Discretionary Decision: A project or action that requires the exercise of judgement or deliberation when the public agency or body discusses a particular activity, as distinguished from situations where the public agency or body merely has to determine whether there has been conformity with applicable statutes, ordinances, or regulations.
Emergency: A sudden unexpected occurrence demanding immediate action to prevent or mitigate loss or damage to life, health, property or essential public services.
Emergency Coastal Development Permit: A Coastal Development Permit granted on an expedited emergency basis where an emergency exists that requires action more quickly than permitted by the procedures for a Coastal Development Permit and the work can and will be completed in 30 days or less, unless otherwise specified by the terms of the permit.
Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area (ESHA): Any area in which plant or animal life or their habitats are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and could easily be disturbed or degraded by human activities and developments, as defined in Section 30107.5 of the Coastal Act.
Estuary: A coastal water body, usually semi-enclosed by land, having open, partially obstructed, or intermittent exchange with the open ocean, and in which ocean water is at least occasionally diluted by freshwater from the land. The salinity level maybe periodically increased to above that of the open ocean due to evaporation (Title 14 California Code of Regulations Section 13577[c]).
Factor of Safety: The stability of a slope as expressed as the ratio of the resisting forces (forces that tend to resist movement of a slope) to the driving forces (forces that tend to cause movement).
Feasible: Capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social, and technological factors.
Fuel Modification: Controlling the types, density, and moisture content of plants (or fuel) around structures to create a defensible space with respect to wildfire risk.
Geologic Setback Area (GSA): That portion of the bluff property located between the bluff edge and the Geologic Setback Line.
Geologic Setback Line (GSL): The line marking the distance from the bluff edge that will assure stability for new development, to be determined on a case-by-case basis for each bluff property.
High-Density Residential Land Use Designation: Residential areas that are appropriate for hotels and medium- and high-density multi-family dwellings. Allowable densities range from five to thirty units per acre.
Historic Resource: Any object, building, structure, site, area, place, record, or manuscript which is at least 50 years old and is historically or archeologically significant, or which is significant in the architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, agriculture, educational, social, political, military, or cultural history of the City of Pismo Beach and/or California and/or the United States.
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Hotel or Motel: A structure or structures with five or more lodging units or rooms, which are occupied, or intended or designed for occupancy, for short-term (less than 30 days), temporary lodging or sleeping purposes. Examples include, but are not limited to, hotel, inn, tourist home, house motel, studio hotel, bachelor hotel, lodging house, vacation rental, rooming house, apartment house, dormitory, public or private club, bed-and-breakfast, private single-family residence, private multifamily residence, condominium, townhouse guest house, mobile home or house trailer at a fixed location, or other similar structure or portion thereof.
Impervious Surface: A surface through which water cannot penetrate, such as nonpermeable roofs, roads, sidewalks, and paved parking lots. The amount of impervious surface generally increases with development and establishes the need for drainage measures and facilities to filter, treat, carry, and accept the increased runoff.
Implementation Plan (IP): The implementing regulations and zoning ordinances for the use of property within the Coastal Zone that have been adopted by the local government and certified by the California Coastal Commission pursuant to California Public Resources Code Section 30108.5 as part of the government’s Local Coastal Program.
Industrial: The manufacture, production, and processing of consumer goods. Industrial is often divided into "heavy industrial" uses, such as construction yards, quarrying, and factories, and "light industrial" uses, such as research and development and less intensive warehousing and manufacturing.
Infill Development: The development of vacant land or redevelopment of land within areas that are already largely developed.
Institutional Uses:
1. Publicly or privately owned and operated activities such as hospitals, convalescent hospitals, intermediate care facilities, nursing homes, museums, and schools and colleges.
2. Churches and other religious organizations.
3. Other nonprofit activities of a welfare, educational, or philanthropic nature that cannot be considered residential, commercial, or industrial.
Land Use: The purpose for which land or structure, or a portion thereof, is designed, arranged, intended, occupied, or maintained. Also referred to as “use.”
Land Use Plan (LUP): That portion of the General Plan/Local Coastal Program which establishes land use designations and related goals, policies, and programs governing the use of land within the Coastal Zone that has been certified by the California Coastal Commission pursuant to California Public Resources Code Section 30108.5.
Landscaping: Planting including trees, shrubs, and ground covers suitably designed, selected, installed, and maintained as to enhance a site or roadway permanently.
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Lateral Access: Access along the shore either at the bluff-top or on the beach. A lateral accessway may be used for public pass and repass, passive recreational use, or as otherwise designated in the City of Pismo Beach General Plan/Local Coastal Program.
Local Coastal Program (LCP): A development regulation program for the use of property within the Coastal Zone. The Local Coastal Program includes the Land Use Plan, land use regulation maps, and specific implementing regulations such as zoning ordinances and maps that have been adopted by the local government and certified by the California Coastal Commission pursuant to the California Public Resources Code to implement the provisions and policies of the Coastal Act by the local government. Local governments with certified LCPs can issue Coastal Development Permits (California Public Resources Code Section 30108.6).
Low-Density Residential Land Use Designation: Residential areas that are appropriate for neighborhoods of detached, single-family homes based on suitable site characteristics, access, and available public services and utilities. Allowable densities range from one to eight dwelling units per acre.
Liquefaction: The transformation of loose water-saturated granular materials (such as sand or silt) from a solid into a liquid state. A type of ground failure that can occur during an earthquake.
Littoral Cell: A relatively isolated geographical area in the ocean containing sand sources, sand transport paths and mechanisms, and sand losses.
Low Impact Development: An innovative stormwater management approach with a basic principle that is modeled after nature, using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source in order to protect water quality and associated aquatic habitat and maintain pre- development hydrologic characteristics.
Major Public Works and Energy Facilities: Publicly funded facilities that cost more than $341,677 with an automatic annual increase in accordance with the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index, except those governed by the provisions of California Public Resources Code Sections 30610, 30610.5, 30611 or 30624. It also means publicly financed recreational facilities that serve, affect, or otherwise impact regional or statewide use of the coast by increasing or decreasing public recreational opportunities or facilities Reference 14 Title California Code of Regulations Section 13012).
Major structural components: The components that hold a structure upright, including the foundation, floor framing, exterior wall framing, and roof framing of a structure.
Mean High Tide Line: The ambulatory line on the shore (contour lines) represented by the intersection of the shore face and the elevation represented by the average of all high tides (higher high tides and lower high tides) occurring over a 19-year period. The mean high tide elevation should be represented by the most recent 19-year National Tidal DatumEpoch as established by the National Ocean Service.
Mean High Tide Line Survey (MHTL): A boundary survey that maps the location of the Mean High Tide Line along the City’s shoreline for the time of the survey.
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Mean High Water: The 19-year average of all high water heights (if the tide is either semidiurnal or mixed) or the higher high water heights if the tide is diurnal. For diurnal tides high water and higher high water are the same.
Mean Low Water: The 19-year average of all low water heights (if the tide is either semidiurnal or mixed) or the lower low water heights if the tide is diurnal. For diurnal tides low water and lower low water are the same.
Mean Sea Level: The 19-year average height of the surface of the sea for all stages of the tide, usually determined from hourly height readings.
Medium-Density Residential Land Use Designation: Residential areas that are appropriate for neighborhoods of single-family and multi-family homes. Allowable densities range from five to ten dwelling units per acre.
Mixed-Use Land Use Designation: Community-serving locations that encourage mutually beneficial uses for the convenience of local residents, including retail, food markets, drug stores, health services, and professional offices, and mixed use projects including commercial, residential, hotels and motels, and other development types.
Mobile Home Park Land Use Designation: Residential areas exclusively for mobile home parks and mobile home subdivisions.
Multifamily Dwelling: A residential building or portion of a building designed for two or more households to live independently of each other. Examples include duplexes, triplexes, apartments, and attached ownership dwelling units such as condominiums and townhouses.
Multimodal Transportation: The consideration of various modes (walking, cycling, automobile, public transit, etc.) and connections among modes so each can fill its optimal role in the overall transportation system without necessarily including a holistic or integrated approach.
Native Vegetation: Vegetation composed of plants that originated in the San Luis Obispo County coastal region and were not introduced directly or indirectly by humans (e.g., not exotic or invasive). Native vegetation includes, but is not limited to, wetland vegetation, native grasslands, coastal/inland sage scrub, and oak and riparian woodlands.
Natural Areas: Undeveloped areas that may contain both native and non-native vegetation.
Non-Conforming Structure: A structure that was lawfully erected but does not currently conform with the development regulations prescribed in the regulations for the district in which the structure is located.
Non-Conforming Use: A use of a structure or land that was lawfully established and maintained according to land use regulations that were in effect when the use was established, but which does not currently conform with the use regulations or required conditions for the district in which it is located.
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Non-Point Source Pollution: Water pollution from no single definable discharge source.
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88): The vertical control datum established in 1991 by the minimum-constraint adjustment of the Canadian-Mexican-United States leveling observations. In 1993, NAVD 88 was affirmed as the official vertical datum in the National Spatial Reference System for the Conterminous United States and Alaska.
Open Space Land Use Designation: Areas with significant natural resources, environmentally sensitive habitats, and/or scenic views to be protected, including hillsides, waterways, coastal and hillside view corridors, public beaches, and parks. Open space lands are not intended to be intensively developed with buildings or other structures, but can be used for recreational purposes.
Passive Erosion: The process whereby the placement of coastal structures at the base of a bluff fixes the back boundary of the beach causing the width of the beach to decrease. This process occurs so long as the shoreline on the beach is experiencing a net retreat, a net sea level rise, or natural seacliff retreat.
Passive Recreation: Any type of recreation or activity that does not require the use of organized play areas, such as open quiet areas, walking/hiking paths, stationary benches, picnic facilities, and hiking and riding trails.
Permit and Appeal Jurisdiction Map: A map depicting those areas where the Coastal Commission retains original jurisdiction and permitting authority, areas under local government permit authority, and areas where the local government’s permit action may be appealed to the Coastal Commission.
Primary Structure: A structure that accommodates the primary or dominant use of the site.
Also referred to as principal structure or principal building.
Public/Semi-Public Land Use Designation: Areas that are appropriate for public and semi-public uses such as parks and public facilities, schools, public parking lots and garages, and government offices.
Public Access: The ability/right of the general public to enter and exit a site, including parks and coastal waters.
Public Trust Lands: All lands subject to the Common Law Public Trust for commerce, navigation, fisheries, recreation, and other public purposes. Public Trust Lands include tidelands, submerged lands, the beds of navigable lakes and rivers, and historic tidelands and submerged lands that are presently filled or reclaimed and that were subject to the Public Trust at any time (Title 14 California Code of Regulations section 13577[f]).
Public View Corridor: A view from a public right-of way, public facility, other publicly available use area or public easement that is specifically designated or newly added by permit conditions and that provides the public at large with views of the Pacific Ocean, shoreline, coastal ridgelines, coastal bluffs or other designated scenic and visual resources. Approximate boundaries of a view corridor
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are identified using a motorist's, cyclist’s or pedestrian’s line of vision and are typically defined or framed by landforms, structures, and vegetation.
Repair and Maintenance: Those actions that preserve a development in its permitted configuration and condition. This includes routine actions typically associated with keeping such development in good condition to prevent its deterioration, as well as targeted corrective actions to restore the development to a working condition adequate to continue to serve the permitted use after experiencing damage or decay. Repair and maintenance does not include additions or alterations to any structure, replacement of 50% or more of a major structural component (i.e., including exterior walls, floor, roof structure, or foundation, where alterations are not additive between individual structural components, changes in site development, a substitution of or a change to a nonconforming use, or an increase in area occupied by a nonconforming use. See CCR Section 13252 for the types of repair and maintenance activities that require a CDP.
Replenishment: The process of replenishing or nourishing a beach with sand/sediment. It may be brought about naturally by long-shore transport or artificially by the deposition of dredged or excavated materials.
Resort Commercial Land Use Designation: Areas that are suitable for recreational vehicle parks and visitor-serving uses.
Review Authority: The individual or official city body (the director, commission, or council and the Coastal Commission on appeal) identified in the Zoning Code as having the responsibility and authority to review and approve or disapprove permit applications.
Riparian Vegetation: An environment associated with native plant communities that require high soil moisture conditions maintained by transported fresh water in excess of that otherwise available through local precipitation.
Sea: The Pacific Ocean and all harbors, bays, channels, estuaries, salt marshes, sloughs, and other areas subject to tidal action through any connection with the Pacific Ocean, excluding non- estuarine rivers, streams, tributaries, creeks, and flood-control and drainage channels (California Public Resources Code Section 30115).
Sea Level Rise or Sea Level Change: Sea level can change, both globally and locally, due to changes in the shape of the ocean basins, changes in the total mass of water due to thermal expansion, changes in water density, and other factors. Factors leading to sea level rise under global warming include both increases in the total mass of water from the melting of land-based snow and ice and changes in water density from an increase in ocean water temperatures and salinity changes.
Relative sea level rise occurs where there is a local increase in the level of the ocean as measured over time at established/representative local tidal gauges relative to the land, which might be due to ocean rise and/or land level subsidence.
Sediment: Grains of soil, sand, or rock that have been transported from one location and deposited at another.
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Setback: The distance on a lot between a structure (or other designated element) and a property line or other specified feature that is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
Shore: The strip of land in immediate contact with the sea, including the zone between high and low water. A shore of unconsolidated material is usually called a beach.
Short-term Rental: The rental of a detached single-family residence for less than thirty (30) consecutive days where the primary residence is not being concurrently occupied by the owner.
Shoreline Hazards: Hazards along the shoreline to the ocean that are created by winds, waves, currents, tides, storms, water, and geologic instability. Shoreline hazards include beach erosion, coastal bluff erosion, coastal bluff slope failure, landslide, coastal flooding, and wave impacts.
Shoreline Protective Device: Any type of shoreline armoring or protective structures, such as seawalls, revetments, riprap, breakwaters, groins, bluff protective devices, deep piers/caissons, bulkheads, or other structures built for the purpose of protecting land or structures against sea level rise, coastal hazards, and erosional forces.
Slope Stability: The stability of a slope as expressed as the ratio of the resisting forces (forces that tend to resist movement of a slope) to the driving forces (forces that tend to cause movement). Driving forces in a slope are increased by the addition of loads near the top of a slope (e.g., soil, rainfall, or irrigation water) and by buoyant forces due to groundwater seepage. Resisting forces are decreased by the removal of earth at the toe of a slope (e.g., by wave attack at the toe of a bluff or excavations at the toe of a slope).
A slope is typically considered stable by geotechnical engineers when the ratio of the resisting forces to the driving forces is 1.5:1.0 or greater for the static condition and 1.1 pseudo static.
Slope Stabilization: The stabilization of a slope, which can be accomplished by a number of measures designed for the specific condition, such as bluff retention devices, reduction of irrigation, control of surface water infiltration and subsurface drainage, and use of geo-textiles.
Sphere of Influence (SOI): The probable, ultimate physical boundaries and service area of the City, as determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission of the County.
Storm Surge: A rise above normal water level on the open coast due to the action of wind stress on the water surface. Storm surge resulting from a winter storm or hurricane also includes the rise in level due to atmospheric pressure reduction and that due to wind stress.
Stream: Any stream mapped by the United States Geological Survey on the 7.5 minute quadrangle series and/or in the National Hydrographic Dataset. The bank of a stream shall be defined as the watershed and relatively permanent elevation or acclivity at the outer line of the stream channel which separates the bed from the adjacent upland, whether valley or hill, and serves to confine the water within the bed and to preserve the course of the stream. In areas where a stream has no discernable bank, the boundary shall be measured from the line closest to the stream where riparian vegetation is permanently established.
For purposes of this definition, channelized streams not having significant habitat value should not be considered.
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Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground. “Structure” includes, but is not limited to, any building, road, pipe, flume, conduit, siphon, aqueduct, telephone line, and electrical power transmission and distribution line (California Public Resources Code Section 30106).
Submerged Lands: Lands that lie below the line of mean low tide (Title 14 California Code of Regulations section 13577[e]).
Temporary Event: An activity or use that constitutes development as defined in Section 30106 of the Coastal Act, but that is an activity or function that is or will be of limited duration and involves the placement of non-permanent structures, such as but not limited to bleachers, vendor tents/canopies, portable toilets, stages, or film sets, and/or involves the use of sandy beach, parkland, filled tidelands, water, streets, or parking areas that are otherwise open and available for general public use.
Tide: The periodic rising and falling of the water that results from gravitational attraction of the moon and sun and other astronomical bodies acting upon the rotating earth. The California coast has a mixed tidal occurrence, with two daily high tides of different elevations and two daily low tides, also of different elevations. Other tidal regimes are diurnal tides, with only one high and one low tide daily, and semidiurnal, with two high and two low tides daily, with comparatively little daily inequality between each high or each low tide level.
Tidelands: Lands located between the lines of mean high tide and mean low tide (Title 14 California Code of Regulations Section 13577[d]).
Vacation Rental: Any structure, as defined in the Pismo Beach building code adopted in Section
15.04.010 , which exists, is constructed, or which is maintained or used upon any premises for the purpose of transient lodging which consists of four or fewer separate transient rental units.
Vertical Access: An area of land providing a connection between the first public roadway or use area nearest the sea and the publicly owned tidelands, beach, or established lateral accessway that may be used for public access pass and repass, passive recreational use, or as otherwise designated in the City of Pismo Beach General Plan/Local Coastal Program.
Very High-Density Residential Overlay: An overlay district for new high-density affordable housing projects that address housing needs in the city by establishing development regulations and incentives.
Allowable densities range from twenty to fifty units per acre, exclusive of units added by a density bonus awarded pursuant to state law. All residential units within this overlay (exclusive of units added by a density bonus awarded pursuant to state law) must be affordable to moderate-income or below households for a minimum of fifty-five (55) years.
Visitor-Serving Use: A private or public development that has a primary purpose of serving visitors and provides accommodations, food, services, and/or recreation, including but not limited to hotels, motels, campgrounds, restaurants, shopping centers, parks, and amusement areas for tourists.
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Visitor-Serving Use with Public Benefit: Any development that meets the definition of a visitor-serving use and also provides amenities that are available to the public and benefit the larger community. Examples of public amenities or benefits include but are not limited to public plazas or gathering points, shoreline access parking, shoreline accessways, dedicated scenic vista areas, bicycle rentals, recreational space and/or equipment, educational signage and programs, playgrounds, native plant gardens, and swimming pools.
Wetland: Lands within the Coastal Zone that may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow water and include saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, and fens (Section 30121). Wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at, near, or above the land surface long enough to promote the formation of hydric soils or the land is covered by shallow water. For purposes of this classification, wetlands must have one or more of the following attributes (Title 14 California Code of Regulations Section 13577[b]):
• The substrate is predominantly undrained hydric soil
• At least periodically, the land supports predominantly hydrophytes • The substrate is non-soil and is saturated with water or covered by shallow water at some time during the growing season of each year
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