Orange County’s beach cities and coastal nonprofit groups are offering volunteer opportunities this Saturday, Sept. 21, for the 40th annual Coastal Cleanup Day.

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San Clemente city officials are pushing forward a multi-pronged effort to replenish sand on beaches that have dwindled to narrow strips of sand.

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San Clemente city officials approved new regulations for electric bicycles that would hold parents liable if their child is riding recklessly or is cited by the sheriff’s department.

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City council members directed city staff to return with a report on the best way to address unpermitted street vending in the city.

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City council members updated San Clemente’s anti-camping ordinance after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for cities to remove homeless encampments.

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More officials across OC are asking voters to pay more in taxes warning that if they don’t they’ll have to cut public services as they struggle to generate revenue and face deficits.

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Orange County transportation officials have used rocks to strengthen the train tracks that run along San Clemente’s shoreline as erosion dwindles the beach down to a narrow stretch of sand. Activists say it will worsen the erosion.

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San Clemente City Council members are mulling ways to increase revenue to bring more sand to their disappearing beaches. They’re debating if a sales tax increase could be the revenue stream they need to fund bringing in more sand each year.

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Trucks are dumping sand from the Santa Ana River on both North Beach and Capistrano Beach to help reverse the effects of erosion and widen South County’s disappearing coastline.

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The storm drain and sewer lift station near the Cyprus Shore community have been operating with temporary systems since they were damaged in 2021.

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During the switch to district elections, city officials grappled with just how to split the city up into voting districts without breaking up communities – an issue that cities throughout Orange County have grappled with.

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As city leaders are dealing with a series of landslides and vanishing beaches, they’ve spent millions from the city’s reserve budget trying to stabilize the problem.

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City officials throughout Orange County have voiced concerns over existing drug rehab homes and now the City of Orange could bail out of a municipal lobbying organization for its support of a measure that could exacerbate the issue.

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City council members unanimously called on the transportation agency to throw out its proposal to armor more of the coast, saying they need to focus on bringing sand to a vanishing shoreline.

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After five collapses in the last three years, city and county leaders are looking to shore up an embattled coastline and study potentially shifting the rail away from the coast.

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City leaders are facing a repeated question at their city council meetings on how they plan to help restore the Orange County coastal city’s shrinking shoreline.

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Despite frequent shutdowns to the county’s coastal train, no one appears ready to discuss moving the tracks further inland.

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The San Clemente City Council voted to adopt a district map, but some residents were so critical of the boundary lines that it will return to the council again for more changes.

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Capistrano Unified School District voted against approving a notification policy that would have informed parents more often about their children’s mental health — which could’ve included LGBTQ+ students.

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City staff say the homeless residents asked to be put up in motels during the event, but wouldn’t confirm if that was a regular practice for the city.

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