§ 30.61.070. Coastal Bluff Top Access.

A.

Minimum requirements. Where required pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, the alignment of a coastal bluff top public access easement and the improvements required therein shall be designed to ensure that the access way, once implemented, will provide the public with the permanent right of public access to and/or along the coastal bluff top.

B.

Coastal bluff top accesses shall be limited to passive coastal viewing purposes only.

C.

The design and alignment of required coastal bluff top access ways shall be as follows:

1.

Unless constrained due to factors beyond the applicant's control, as determined by the Issuing Authority for a Coastal Development Permit, access easements to and/or along a coastal bluff top shall be a minimum of ten feet in width, with the access easement sited and aligned so as to provide a minimum of ten feet between the access way and the closest residence. Examples of factors which may be deemed "beyond the control of the applicant" shall include, but not be limited to, topographical constraints or the existence of a structure(s) which is non-conforming in regard to the property setbacks required by this Title.

2.

Lateral Access easements shall extend landward in a parallel alignment along the coastal bluff top starting from a point five feet landward from the bluff top.

3.

The improvements within the required access shall include measures necessary to prevent uncontrolled access to the adjacent coastal bluff face.

D.

Coastal bluff top access easements shall be legally conveyed and described as enumerated in this Chapter.