RESOLUTION NO. 23-91
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF San clemente, CALIFORNIA, approving the submittal of aN application to the california coastal commission FOR A LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM GRANT to fund an offshore borrow site investigation to find additional sand sources that can be used to develop additional beach nourishment projects in san clemente and pursue addItional GRANT funding opportunities to support coastal resilency plan implementation; FINDING THE PROJECT TO BE FUNDED BY THE GRANT CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) UNDER CLASS 6 (Information Collection, 14 CCR 15306), Section 15306 of the state CEQA Guidelines; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE GRANT AGREEMENT WHEREAS, coastal erosion is a very significant problem in the City of San Clemente that threatens the public beaches and coastal public access, key public facilities, existing structures, and critical public infrastructure; and WHEREAS, the upcoming United State Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project is intended to reduce coastal storm damage to property and infrastructure along the shoreline for 50 years; improve public safety in the study area by providing a wider sandy beach which will serve as a natural wave buffer; and reduce coastal erosion and shoreline narrowing to improve public recreational opportunities for beach users within the City and region; and WHEREAS, the USACE project includes a 50-foot-wide beach fill along a 3,412-foot-long stretch of shoreline placing 251,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment on the beach every six years; and WHEREAS, material will be dredged from a borrow site located within the Oceanside Littoral cell located off the coast south of the project site; and WHEREAS, the City Council has expressed interest in pursuing additional sand replenishment opportunities to supplement the planned USACE project; and WHEREAS, beach nourishment is consistent with Federal, Statewide, regional and local shoreline management goals which recognize the importance of public beach restoration along the South Orange County shoreline as the preferred method of addressing the critical coastal erosion problems caused by a lack of sediment supply; and WHEREAS, in the absence of beach sand replenishment and retention projects, construction of more hard shoreline protection devices is expected to occur; and WHEREAS, providing a wide sandy beach is a proven, viable nature based, green, soft solution as a means of advancing natural infrastructure protection; and WHEREAS, the City’s preferred sea level rise adaptation strategy is beach nourishment because it provides a wide variety of public benefits and can protect critical public infrastructure in the City; and WHEREAS, the 2013 Orange County Regional Coastal Sediment Management Plan identified a data gap with respect to the lack of existing information to help the City find additional sources of sand that can be used to supplement beach nourishment in the city and potentially the greater South Orange County region; and WHEREAS, there is some preliminary data available indicating that there are additional offshore sand resources that should be further investigated to determine the quality and quantity of beach sand deposits that may be available for use in the City.
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente, California, does hereby find, determine and resolve as follows:
Section 1. That the foregoing recitations are true and correct and incorporated herein.
Section 2. Locating additional offshore sand sources would be of great benefit to the City and to the region.
Section 3. Conducting this analysis promotes the long-term vision of the City and supports important City Council priorities.
Section 4. That the City Council authorizes staff to submit a grant application to the California Coastal Commission to obtain funding to advance key implementation strategies in the City’s 2021 Coastal Resiliency Plan.
Section 5. That the project that the grant funding will be used for, if awarded, is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Class 6 (Information Collection, 14 CCR 15306), Section 15306 of the state CEQA Guidelines.
Section 6. That the City Manager is authorized and directed to execute the grant agreement and such other and further documents as are necessary and proper to accomplish the intent of this resolution if the grant submittal is successful.
Section 7. That staff is authorized and directed to take such other and further actions as are necessary and proper to implement the project to be funded by the grant.
Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of September, 2023.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City of Mayor of the City of San
San Clemente, California Clemente, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) §
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, do hereby certify that Resolution No. 23-91 was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of San Clemente held on the _______ day of _______________________, _________, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of _________________, ________. __________________________
CITY CLERK of the City of
San Clemente, California
Approved as to form:
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Elizabeth A. Mitchell, City Attorney
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