Sierra Club director speaks out on LCP update

The Sierra Club’s director for coastal programs Mark Massara has sent a letter [Last letter on page] in support of the Coastal Commission’s inquiry into the county’s LCP Update [pdf of letters], and on the infrastructure improvement issues in particular:

[Supervisor Rich Gordon’s] quip that "we must build infrastructure to the rate of development" (development that he approves, by the way) is dead bang wrong on the law and the Coastal Act. A bedrock foundation principal of the California Coastal Act is that infrastructure development is only permitted as needed for the existing population, and specifically not allowed to facilitate new suburban sprawl, no matter how much Supervisor Gordon wants it.