The city sought to amend its Local Coastal Program, a development agreement with the state, to allow — for a fee paid by the homeowners — up to 15 feet of encroachments on the far east end of the Balboa Peninsula known as Peninsula Point. That would have protected at least some of the landscaping, patios, furniture, pavers, fences and other adornments that make up unpermitted seaward “backyards” reaching past the property lines of 55 homes between F Street and the harbor entrance channel. Many of those extensions have been in place for years, even decades.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 11, 2019 04:07 UTC