Goals
The agency's official goals are to:
- Protect and improve coastal wetlands, streams and watersheds
- Help people get to coasts and shores by building trails and stairways and creating low cost accommodation including campgrounds and hostels
- Work with local communities to revitalize urban watersheds
- Help solve complex land-use problems
- Purchase and hold environmentally valuable coastal and bay lands
- Protect Agricultural lands and support coastal agriculture
- Accept donations and dedication of land and easements for public access, wildlife habitat, agriculture and open spaces
Since its conception, the conservancy has spent over 1.4 billion dollars on projects it has completed, and works in partnership with other public agencies, nonprofit organizations and private landowners, employing 75 people and overseeing a current annual budget of 53 million dollars. The conservancy was created by the legislature as a unique entity with flexible powers to serve as an intermediary among government, citizens, and the private sector in recognition that creative approaches would be needed to preserve California's coast line.
Read more about this topic: California Coastal Conservancy
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