The California Coastal Act was enacted in the 1970s and it required that the 76 coastal cities and counties in the state must prepare and maintain a local coastal plan (LCP). The LCP incorporates the policies outlined in the Coastal Act and must be approved by the California Coastal Commission (CCC). A LCP is the city's specific, long-term coastal management plan, which includes a land use plan, zoning ordinances and other implementing actions (Fischer, 1999). Instead of having one big LCP, Los Angeles and many other coastal cities divided their jurisdictions up into multiple local coastal program areas. Los Angeles divided up the city into six different delineated areas, all of which have not developed their local coastal plans due to the
