Coastal Access in Isla Vista
Laura Capps, 'Point Break,' and Six-Foot Fences
Last week’s deck collapse on the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive — “Xanadu Lanes” for those with lasting Isla Vista memories — draws renewed attention to 2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps campaign to require six-foot fencing on Isla Vista’s bluffs.
Capps and the Board of Supervisors’ confusing knee-jerk ordinance increases the “mandatory height” of bluff fencing and at the same time waives “fees for good cause for permits for safety fences or railings along the Isla Vista Bluffs.” Are they begging property owners to build higher fences? What does “mandatory” mean?
Practically every building on oceanside Del Playa already has six-foot fencing that prevents access to the oceanside deck areas. Does Capps want fences right on the edge? Or, in the case of Xanadu, off the edge? At the moment the “edge” is moving inland — quickly at times. According to the Independent, “Capps office stated the four building would need to get permits for taller fencing.” Where is that fencing supposed to go? Bolted to decks hanging off a cliff?
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