When the Hotel del Coronado won state approval in 2010 to add 144 rooms to the luxury oceanview resort, its owners agreed to write a check for more than $1 million so that less well-heeled vacationers could afford an overnight stay on the coast – in a hostel.
Five years later, that hostel has yet to be built, but the California Coastal Commission is still trying, as it has for the last four decades, to enforce a little-known mandate that everyone, regardless of income, is entitled to affordable lodging along the coast.
While widely known for its well publicized efforts to safeguard the public’s access to the water – be it a bayfront promenade in San Diego or a walkway to the beach fronting celebrity-owned homes in Malibu – the commission’s mission to preserve affordability has largely flown under the radar.
via The Coastal Act has long required affordable lodging along the coastline.