needed a special law sponsored by then-state Sen. Ross Johnson that allowed Newport Coast to be annexed by Newport Beach but still stay under Orange County rules so it could keep the land-use plan ...

There is some latitude in the Coastal Permit process, where it is possible to introduce some interpretation of the competing interests and the needs of the community, and we can have some choices in ...

The Coastal Permit has something of a twin, which is the Neighborhood Use Permit. Both permits require some element of review of the neighborhood character as well as conformance to some expanded ...