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Coastal armoring structures are built extensively along California’s 1,100-mile coastline by private landowners, local, state, or federal governments to protect coastal development threatened by erosion. A pilot study for Santa Cruz County captured all of the coastal armoring structures using orthophoto/oblique high-resolution imagery and the California Coastal Commission (CCC) Permit Tracking System (PTS). The geodatabase will assist coastal managers and planners in identifying where past, present, and future development projects are located, identify the resources potentially impacted by a project, and perform analyses on the cumulative impacts of other nearby projects. The dataset also allows a user to analyze spatial relationships among coastal armoring practices, answer important coastal management questions related to coastal armoring, and manage information more effectively. |