Laguna Beach city leaders are mulling a proposal that would ban large pop-up shade structures on the sand to protect the safety of beachgoers.
Though the decision hasn’t yet been made, it’s been on the table since a Laguna Beach City Council meeting in late January. It calls for the restriction of pop-up tents and canopies that provide shade on the sand for safety reasons.
“What we’re having a problem with is … many of our coves in Laguna Beach are quite shallow, and the lifeguard towers are pushed back up against the hill on the coves, and when people put up these rows of these tent structures, the lifeguards cannot see down to the waterline and it creates a safety issue,” said Mayor Mark Orgill…