To the editor: As a 50-year resident of Santa Barbara, I do know the oil points from all sides (“Californians rallied to avoid wasting the coast 50 years in the past. Trump is spoiling the celebration,” July 11). I do know it because the low-income mom of a 2-year-old I couldn’t take to the seaside after the 1969 spill, as a lawyer representing environmental teams towards oil tankering within the early Nineties and as a coastal commissioner — reporting at my final assembly in 2015 proper after the Refugio oil spill.
The easy fact is that the Coastal Act permits oil improvement, if carried out underneath strict environmental and security controls that profit the pure setting, our well being and our tourism and fishing industries. Sable and President Trump need out of these controls. If that pipeline had been secure (which it isn’t, 10 years after the spill), the oil can be on its merry option to refineries to pollute the air surrounding them.
The California Coastal Fee has finished the proper factor on each oil and desalination. Trump hates the fee for 2 causes: much less earnings for him and his “buddies,” together with Elon Musk and his loud rockets, and, much more seemingly, as a result of residents fought him on elevating his personal flagpole over Rancho Palos Verdes. It’s not the job of the individuals of California to compensate for Trump’s losses.
Jana Zimmer, Santa Barbara
This author served on the California Coastal Fee from 2011-2015 and is the creator of “Navigating the California Coastal Act.”
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To the editor: Columnist Steve Lopez has it proper. The Coastal Act has protected over-development of the shoreline. Though I’ve solely lived in Southern California since 2010, I do know it’s a delight to journey our coast and see the ocean, the mountains and the hills.
Having lived in Miami-Dade County in Florida from 1945 to 2010, I can attest that just about the whole thing of the coast there, with minor exceptions, is developed with high-rise lodges, residences and condominiums that block the view of the ocean from the A1A street. Moreover, the event of those constructions has resulted within the erosion of a lot of the seaside, a lot in order that what at one time may need been known as “beach-front” is a misnomer. The ocean laps proper as much as the constructions, so no seaside. Be grateful for the Coastal Act.
Maurice M. Garcia, Newbury Park
