That 50 year West Cliff vision was exactly the post-disaster city staff’s snap plans revealed over a year ago, and after a long exercise in not-all-that-objective a process of mass persuasion to change the minds of those who oppose it, their plan got accepted (well, delayed again actually due to public pressure).
OK, the city doesn’t really want the cost of holding back the sea as long as possible. Getting cars off West Cliff is a “no mas,” give up, step one in allowing nature to consume it. More people bad, nature good. Nature-based solutions sound wonderful, but are really N/A there and delay the inevitable reality only engineered cliff hardening works best until it is too late.
When did “access for all” become denying access for drivers going east dumping messy traffic into neighborhoods? Yeesh.
— Garrett Philipp, Santa Cruz
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