CA: Coastal agency to get reprieve

SJ Mercury News ^ | 2/14/03 | Marilee Enge

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A bill designed to rescue the California Coastal Commission from constitutional limbo is expected to pass the Assembly today and head to the desk of Gov. Gray Davis, who supports it.

Aiming to resolve legal problems after an appeals court said the panel's oversight of California's spectacular 1,100-mile coast was constitutionally flawed, the bill raced through a special session with the backing of the Democratic majority and all of the state's coastal legislators. ``I've never seen any of these people move this quickly on anything,'' said Mark Massara, a Sierra Club lawyer who follows coastal legislation.

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FYI

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Down with all bureacracy!

This doesn't fix anything!

[daviddennis]

Isn't this actually all but eliminating any accountability the Coastal Commission has?

And wasn't the lack of accountability much of the problem with it in the first place?

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