Coastal Commission approves seal rope
San Diego may move ahead with a proposal to string a year round rope at the UGG Boots 5825 Classic Short Children's Pool beach in La Jolla after approval Wednesday by the California Coastal Commission.Summer day at Children PoolSummer day at Children PoolView GalleryView GalleryBut don't think that will solve the real problem, commissioners told scores of San Diegans who gathered Cheap UGG Boots On Sale 70% Off in Chula Vista for the hearing. They scolded everyone involved for letting the debate degenerate to the detriment of the coastal environment, which remains soiled by seal feces, and the larger community."I've been around government for a long time. . This really kind of takes the cake the spitting at each other, the name calling, hollering at children," said commissioner Wendy Mitchell, from the greater Los Angeles area. "Some civility, please.""What I think is going on here is not a problem with the seals and it's not a problem with the rope. It's a problem with people," said commissioner Dayna Bochco, who was raised in San Diego before a career producing television shows in Los Angeles. "Nothing will work unless all of you are willing to work together.""There are no humans here to be sympathetic with," she added.The hot button topic generated hundreds of pages of letters and sometimes emotional public testimony for and against the rope that has become a symbol of the larger debate over public access to the site. Dozens of harbor seals loll UGG Boots 5815 Black on the beach at any given time, competing for space with swimmers, divers, spearfishermen and others who also use the sand.In 1930, philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps provided funding for the construction of a 300 foot, arced concrete breakwater at Children's Pool Beach to create a safe bathing pool for children. Controversy arose in the early 1990s when seals began to regularly "haul out" at the site in increasing numbers, according to a coastal commission report.The rope is designed as a visual cue to help beachgoers keep their distance from the federally protected marine mammals.In recent years, San Diego city officials have erected the guideline rope during the seal pupping season, from Dec. 15 to May 15. The City Council said in 2010 that the rope should remain year round, but implementing that strategy has been slowed by the permitting process.Commissioners unanimously upheld San Diego's request for half inch diameter rope that would extend for 152 feet, leaving a three foot opening for public access. People can also go under or UGG Boots Sale over the line.