Surfrider Foundation believes the following principles must be applied when
evaluating or planning for potential projects:
• Preserve coastal environments by:
o considering impacts to beach ecology, including sand compatibility and quality, and o considering impacts to marine ecology, including impacts to marine habitats. • Protect coastal recreational opportunities by: o considering impacts to wave quality, including impacts that might result from changes to the beach and offshore bottom contours, o considering impacts to access, including beach width, and o engaging stakeholders from var!ous recreational user groups. • Consider fishing, navigation and other existing uses of proposed project areas and assess: o potential lost opportunities, and o trade-offs that could result in long-term benefit. • Understand impact of project alternative and develop project intelligently by: o Weighing project alternatives based on potential for long-term benefits, o Proceeding incrementally and cautiously to ensure that impacts are fully understood during pfanning stage--;ana - -- - - o Employing adaptive management to ensure that new information is used to assess needs for project modification, mitigation, and/or removal. • Create opportunities for meaningful community input and ensure transparency in the planning process by: o informing local communities are about planned projects, and o providing the community with an opportunity to provide meaningful input.
Goals for Half Moon Bay Shoreline Improvement Project:
Any project implemented to address the ongoing loss of beach south of Pillar Point Harbor and/or sediment accumulation in Pillar Point Harbor should seek to achieve the following results for the coastline from Pillar Point Harbor to Miramar:
• Improvement or prevention of denigration of water quality within and outside
of the Pillar Point Harbor, • Maintenance of or improvement to the health of the local coastal ecosystems, • Improvement or prevention of further loss of beach width, • Improvement to beach access, • Maintenance of or improvement to surfing wave quality and surfing opportunity, and • Maintenance of or improvement to navigational capability within Pillar Point Harbor.