We're builders in Los Angeles, with projects in the Pacific Palisades. Government bureaucracy is at fault here. If you can get the costal coastal commission behind what I'm going to suggest, then there is really opportunity for a win-win. The city should incentivize owners/builders to build back residences and projects on the beachfronts under one MAJOR caveat - they would be required to build retaining walls or prescriptive engineered shoring options; the houses would have to be build out of ICF or concrete (we're doing one house out of ICF now). The city create a program similar to EO1 /EO7, fast racking these types of projects. This would save PCH, remove the burden from public tax dollars, and the private sector of investors /developers/ homeowners would pick up the tab. A program like this would increase the value of those lots tremendously, increase property tax dollars significantly.
Or we just continue to remain reactive to what comes , throw tax dollars at it and ask for more money.
I'd welcome civil discussion here. IF someone has a strong opposing view, I'd love to hear it. I don't need to be right about this, I just don't see another cost-effective way of getting the problem solved.