California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2051: Public resources: coastal resources: Coastal Resilience Permitting Working Group.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 30517 of, and to add Division 20.8 (commencing with Section 30990) to, the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources. public resources Public resources: coastal resources: Coastal Resilience Permitting Working Group. (1) The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as defined, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit, as provided…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Section 30517 of, and to add Division 20.8 (commencing with Section 30990) to, the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources. public resources Public resources: coastal resources: Coastal Resilience Permitting Working Group. (1) The California Coastal Act of 1976 requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as defined, in addition to obtaining any other permit required by law from any local government or from any state, regional, or local agency, to obtain a coastal development permit, as provided. The act requires each local government lying in whole or in part within the coastal zone to prepare a local coastal program for that portion of the coastal zone within its jurisdiction. The act requires a land use plan of a proposed local coastal program to be submitted to the California Coastal Commission for certification. The act authorizes the commission to extend, for a period not to exceed one year, certain time limitations relating to local coastal programs for good cause. This bill would authorize the commission to retroactively extend, for good cause and a period not to exceed 5 years, a time limitation established for a local government to act on the commission’s suggested modifications to a land use plan amendment that would authorize approval of an affordable housing development, …