The City has published a notice for a proposed emergency repair for a secant pile wall to protect the cliffs below the Inn at 1370 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. The notice was posted February 2, 2024.
Here’s the official notice:
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Wait. What? Please correct me? Is this the same venue that built a deck under a sketchy previous “emergency” permit a few years ago? Apologies if so, and please correct me if I’m wrong- trying to recollect the events that have transpired in this location
I vaguely remember something about that but don’t remember which location that was. But The Cliffs are pretty much sandstone, it’s not like being a giant chunk of solid granite. I think it’s the same kind of cliff material as Black’s Beach cliffs are, right? And we all saw that collapse video at Blacks a year ago. It takes very little imagination to see what this building is going to look like falling into the ocean.
This bird’s eye view looks like a giant land shark took a big bite out of the cliff!
This building is GOING to fall off at some point. Poof! No more land so the property will cease to exist. Looking at this photo I would hazard a guess that it will probably be sooner rather than later (sooner being a relative term). With ongoing storms that are saturating what this heavy weight sits on, atmospheric rivers soaking the permeable ground underneath it, and big surf pounding below that all seem to be getting worse every year; yeah, not all that long if they are screaming for help “I live on a crumbling cliff SAVE ME! All that expensive emergency work they are about to do is just putting make-up on a pig in the hope that you can stave off the ugly.
There is no doubt to the eventual outcome, is there? The ocean always wins.
sealintheSelkirks
Emergency permits are there for good reason such as when a public safety or a building is at imminent risk of a collapsing hillside. But this is very much a self-induced emergency, which allows them to skip public input. Which is really following the city’s own playbook.
The Inn would already have a permit for the complete seawall repair by now if they followed the development rules and weren’t trying to also extend their deck 20-ft beyond the bluff edge in direct violation of the Coastal Commission. This emergency permit path bypasses Coastal, but is risky because there is no guarantee that Coastal Commission will allow the repairs to remain in place in the future. This Inn has been down this path before and all it does is kick the can.
What this repair will look like exactly, we don’t know, but a secant pile wall is certainly not temporary. It includes the south 50-ft which covers less than half of the property width. The eroding bluff edge is currently about 30ft from the hotel.
https://obrag.org/2021/07/deck-expansion-at-inn-at-sunset-cliffs-nixed-by-ob-planning-board/
https://docs.sandiego.gov/council_reso_ordinance/rao2023/R-314605.pdf
Thx kh and Vern, I knew there was something to my deja vu… :/
Not much difference between any spot on the SoCal seaside bluffs, is there? I understand that the rail link between LA and San Diego is down also, or was a couple(?) weeks ago from a landslide caused by too much rain. By San Clemente somewhere I think it was. Now it’s Goleta:
Homes Teetering On Edge Of Cliff In Southern California
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/homes-teetering-on-edge-of-cliff-in-southern-california
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kh, anything put up to stop erosion facing the sea is temporary. It will not last. That’s fact. As I said, the ocean always wins but at 30 feet from the edge? Think Black’s big slide last year, and it didn’t have a big heavy building sitting on top of the cliff. I would guess that would make it more likely.
sealintheSelkirks
And this continues to happen along the coast as more and more water falls from atmospheric rivers. Even the millionaires are having to re-think what they were thinking when they build places like this:
Landslide leaves California mansions teetering on cliff’s edge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6n3zRJ2_i8___
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And here sky water is hitting you all again. Heavier rain for at least LA and north. Will San Diego get it, too? The latest is yes as of 4pm today so you all watch those low spots that’ll fill up fast.
North of LA it’s looking grimmer but at least that overwhelming 12″ of rain of the last one isn’t expected.
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I had a friend call driving from Mt. Shasta down-canyon to Redding last night when he was stopped on the side of I-5 north of the dam. It was raining so hard that his little car’s wipers couldn’t clear the windshield fast enough to see the road. Literally. Said he was down to 35mph before he pulled over to wait it out.
So what is going to wash away this week on the Cali coast? Oh wait, it’s the Palos Verdes slip-sliding away. The exclusive wealthy neighborhood seems to have been built on some pretty shaky cliffs:
Another storm has arrived in Southern California, causing concern for mudslides and damaging debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apilTDCPsE
What ya wanna bet that the Gov will respond rather quickly to their demands?
And I’m sure there will be some other place weakened by wildfire burn scars and super-saturated hillsides that’ll let go, too, this week. It sure is raining hard north of San Diego today.
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It was interesting to hear one news meteorologist say that many of the landslides have happened on land ‘altered’ by construction. Is anybody surprised about that because it seems EVERYWHERE has been altered by somebody!
sealintheSelkirks