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California has had a Coastal Commission for more than a half-century, beginning with a 1972 ballot measure whose advocates played on Californians’ fears about losing access to popular beaches and who cited the sprawling Sea Ranch development along the Sonoma County coast as an example.
The measure gave the commission a four-year tenure…