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Neighborhood & Environmental Protection Plan

In March of 2020, the Laguna Beach City Council approved a new $1 million resident-serving program called the "Neighborhood & Environmental Protection Plan" to mitigate visitor impacts to neighborhoods, enhance City services for residents, and add environmental protection programs.

The $1M program is funded 100% by visitors through the City’s Parking Fund and Measure LL Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) revenues.

Enhanced Cleaning and More Frequent Trash Collection

Litter collection crews were deployed during summer weekends to collect trash left in neighborhoods adjacent to beaches, parks, and trails
The City modified the current contract for public trash collection services to include all public trash cans at City beaches and along Coast Highway during the weekends. Doing so will allowed for more efficient trash collection on weekends, and freed two full-time Public Works staff positions on Saturdays and Sundays to be reassigned to other facility maintenance duties, which provides quicker response times to common maintenance requests such as graffiti removal, litter control, and public restroom maintenance at all city parks and beaches.
Extended service dates for increased afternoon trash collection program and added a 3^rd daily trash pickup.
Added trash cans at new locations for daily service and expedited replacing trash cans.

Infrastructure and Parking Improvements

The City approved converting all the City-owned drinking fountains to bottle filler drinking fountains.
A gate will be installed at the Tyrol entrance of Alta Laguna Park.
Trail Ambassador Program: The City partnered with the Laguna Canyon Foundation to provide trail ambassadors at trail heads during peak usage hours.

Enhanced Safety Provided by the Marine Safety Department

The City added Year-Round Lifeguard Coverage at Crescent Bay Beach, Shaw’s Cove, Victoria/Lagunita and Treasure Island and augmented Marine Safety services for County Beaches in South Laguna.
The City Installed a Lifeguard Tower During Summer Months at Mermaid Beach (North Victoria).
The City Added an Additional Marine Safety Officer Position to Create a Late Evening Shift.

Enhanced Safety Provided by the Police Department

The Police Department has created the Neighborhood Enhancement Team to focus on localized quality of life issues within the community.

Additional security cameras were also installed at Alta Laguna Park.

Effective July 15, 2021:

Single-use plastic food ware is prohibited on Laguna Beach trails, parks, and beaches
No restaurant distribution of single-use to-go containers, including plastic take-out bags and utensil sleeves
No feeding of wild birds in City Parks
No large shade structures on beaches to preserve public safety sightlines
No storage of bicycles on Main Beach and Heisler Park
Expanding prohibition of abandonment of personal property in public spaces
Non-coastal community parks to close at 10:00 p.m.

"This action by the Council will better protect our neighborhoods and preserve the natural beauty of our beaches and open space areas,” said Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen. “Through numerous neighborhood outreach meetings with our residents and neighbors over the last year, we’ve heard that more police protection, parking enforcement and trash pickup are needed to maintain the quality of life that we all expect. By committing $1 million to this effort, we are confident that we will produce positive and tangible results for our community."