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  Pismo rebuffed on rental limits

  The state Coastal Commission last week rejected a request by Pismo Beach to prohibit vacation rentals in residential parts of the city.

  The city applied to amend its coastal planning rules, which must be approved by the commission, to ban homes being used as vacation rentals.

  Such rentals frequently generate complaints from residents about noise, trash and parking problems.

• Parcel added to Price Canyon plan

  Parcel added to Price Canyon plan

  But some Pismo Beach residents are concerned about the city’s expanding ‘sphere of influence’

• Pismo Beach approves emergency permits to stabilize eroding bluffs

  Pismo Beach approves emergency permits to stabilize eroding bluffs

  In an effort to prevent a potential sewage spill, Pismo Beach officials have issued an emergency permit to stabilize eroding bluffs in Shell Beach.

  On the same day that the City Council set aside $12,000 for design work for two seawalls, the Coastal Commission questioned Pismo Beach’s need for an emergency permit.

  Community Development Director Jon Biggs issued the emergency permit Thursday.

• Prospect dim for Pismo duplex

  Prospect dim for Pismo duplex

  Plans to build a duplex at the mouth of Pismo Creek face an uphill battle Thursday when they go before the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco.

  Commission staff is recommending rejection of the project, which was approved by the Pismo Beach City Council a year ago. The development has several unusual features.

  It is so close to the creek that it would be built on 8-foot-tall pilings to prevent flooding. It is also so close to an existing vacation rental that the other building would have to be partially demolished to accommodate it.

• Pismo Beach approves sea walls to stop bluffs erosion

  Pismo Beach approves sea walls to stop bluffs erosion

  Pismo Beach officials plan to spend about $2.3 million to install two sea walls to stabilize eroding bluffs in Shell Beach.

  Doing so would protect a sewage pumping station — failure of which would cause 500 to 600 homes to be without sewage services — and prevent further erosion beneath part of Ocean Boulevard, which was happening at an “alarming rate,” city Public Works Director Dwayne Chisam said.

  This week, the Pismo Beach City Council unanimously approved a proposal for the emergency repair work, which could start in six to eight weeks, Chisam said.