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California beach camping banned thanks to excess of ‘human waste’
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Overnight camping at a beach along California’s central coast is banned due to an excess of “human waste,” officials said this week.
The California Coastal Commission announced Thursday that overnight camping and campfires will be banned at San Carpoforo Beach for the next two years.
Beachgoers walk along the shore as a campfire glows on the beach at San Carpoforo Creek on California Highway 1 near Ragged Point on Saturday, May 1, 2021, in Big Sur, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
San Carpoforo, or “San Carpo,” is located off Highway 1 in northern San Luis Obispo County, about a four-hour drive south of San Francisco. It is the only free beach campsite in the Big Sur area – a fact not widely known until recently.
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The Commission detailed the deteriorating quality of the beach in a staff report recently made available. The report noted that more visitors frequented the campsite once word spread it was free. A lack of resources for the U.S. Forest Services to monitor the site and a lack of trach cans, restrooms and fire rings have led to higher levels of trash and debris, the report said.
“The beach has no restrooms, very limited parking, no potable water, and no trash containers or collection,” the Commission wrote in the staff report.
The area is home to a number of endangered animals, such as the western snowy plover, which have been negatively impacted by the beach’s deteriorating conditions.
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While the ban is in effect, the U.S. Forest Service will devise a plan to “reset” and figure out a way to allow camping in the future. Day use of the beach is still available for visitors.
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California residents flee massive wildfire sparked by burning car
Thousands of Northern California residents were forced to evacuate their homes as a massive wildfire scorched more than 250 square miles. The Park Fire, California’s largest this year, was started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully.
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California's billionaire utopia faces a major setback
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Silicon Valley’s billionaire-backed plan to turn 60,000 acres into a utopian “city of yesterday” is officially delayed by at least two years. California Forever confirmed on July 22 that its “East Solano Plan” rezoning proposal will not appear on the region’s November election ballot. Instead, the $900 million project will first receive a full, independent environmental impact review while preparing a development agreement with local county supervisors.
Speaking with The New York Times this week, California Democratic state senator John Garamendi said, “The California Forever pipe dream is in a permanent deep freeze.”
First unveiled in August 2023 after years of stealth land purchases just outside San Francisco, organizers bill the 60,000 acre East Solano Plan as a multistep campaign to build “one of the most walkable and sustainable [towns] in the United States.” Concept art on California Forever’s website depicts idyllic pedestrian squares and solar farms, with lofty promises to bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to the area along with “novel methods of design, construction, and governance,” according to a previous profile. Overseen by former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, California Forever received financial backing from wealthy venture capitalists including LinkedIn’s co-founder Reid Hoffman and Lauren Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist and widow of Steve Jobs.
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But from the start, locals, environmental advocates, and politicians pushed back against the East Solano Plan. By November 2023, news broke that California Forever’s parent company previously sued a group of locals for $510 billion, citing antitrust violations after the defendants refused to sell their land (the locals later agreed to sell for $18,000 per acre). Meanwhile, state representatives voiced security concerns about the proposed city’s proximity to the nearby Travis Air Force Base.
Last month, the accredited Solano Land Trust announced its opposition to the plan, citing what it believed would be a “detrimental impact” to the region’s “water resources, air quality, traffic, farmland, and natural environment.” The land trust also alleged California Forever backers misled the public by describing much of the area as “non-prime farmland” with “low quality soils.” In reality, the Solano Land Trust explained that the “sensitive habitat… home to rare and endangered plants and animals” includes some of the state’s most water-efficient farmland.
In this week’s announcement, Sramek claims a recent poll conducted by California Forever indicated 65 percent of East Solano residents “support development of good paying jobs, more affordable homes, and clean energy,” while noting that “most voters are also asking for a full environmental impact report to be completed first.”
“The idea of building a new community and economic opportunity in eastern Solano seemed impossible on the surface,” Sramek wrote to Popular Science last year. “But after spending a lot of time learning about the community, which I now call home, I became convinced that with thoughtful design, the right long-term patient investors, and strong partnerships… we can create a new community.”
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Tech Jobs Keep Moving Out of California. Don’t Panic Yet.
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It has been a weird four years for California’s technology sector. It boomed early in the Covid-19 pandemic as people in the US and around the world geared up for remote work and directed their spending to online services (games, streaming, spin classes, etc.) they could consume without leaving home. But that rise in remote work, combined with highest-in-the-nation real estate costs, strict pandemic rules and other factors, also led to something of an exodus from the state’s coastal cities, with high-profile departures of tech leaders in 2020 and 2021 and even occasional claims that the San Francisco Bay Area’s reign as global tech capital was ending.
A few high-profile departures are still taking place, with Elon Musk announcing this month that he will be moving the headquarters of two more of his companies — X, the former Twitter, and SpaceX — from California to Texas, where he moved Tesla Inc.’s headquarters in 2021. But there have also been stories of tech leaders returning and San Francisco beginning a resurgence, with the boom in generative artificial intelligence — the biggest story in tech now — very much concentrated around the San Francisco Bay. My fellow Bloomberg Opinion columnist Conor Sen thinks it might even be a good time to buy some slightly marked-down San Francisco real estate.
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