Angel Law principal attorney Frank Angel was quoted in the Easy Reader’s reporting on Hermosa Beach’s short-term rental ban.
Attorney Frank Angel represented the plaintiff in Keen v. City of Manhattan Beach. He believes Hermosa’s ban of STRVs in the residential coastal zone is unenforceable without Coastal Commission approval.
“Hermosa Beach is playing with fire,” he said in an interview this week. “The city can’t cite the Johnston case in defense of its Short Term Rental ban because it is an ‘unpublished’ case.”
Additionally, he said, the Johnston case is six years old, and in the interim three published cases have upheld the Coastal Commission’s jurisdiction over short term vacation rentals.
He quoted Kracke v. City of Santa Barbara, a 2021 Appellate Court ruling, which states, “The Coastal Act required the Commission’s approval of a CDP (Coastal Development Permit), LCP (Local Coastal Program) amendment, or amendment waiver before the ban could be imposed.”
Absent Coastal Commission approval, Angel contended, “The city and their officials incur significant liabilities under the Coastal Act and the Bill of Rights by collecting fines from property owners in the Hermosa Beach coastal zone under STVR regulations they know have no legal effect.”
Read more in the Easy Reader at https://easyreadernews.com/coastal-commission-targets-hermosa-beach-short-term-vacation-rental-ban .
