{"id":436209,"date":"2026-08-18T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:52:31","slug":"officials-consider-restricting-access-to-san-diego-countys-most-popular-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/436209\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Consider Restricting Access To San Diego County&#8217;s Most Popular Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Club Seal Society said La Jolla Cove is not being adequately managed by the city. They said during a presentation that the cove is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Attractions-g28926-Activities-c61-t52-California.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">highest ranking beach in California on TripAdvisor<\/a> and attracts mass tourism. Advocates asked the commission for cones and tape, as needed on the beach, trifold signs and park rangers to be present on the beach to protect the pups.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners noted during the meeting that cities such as Monterey have implemented beach closures during pupping season, as a potential solution in for La Jolla Cove.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Piatanesi, a spokesperson for San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, told the coastal commissioners on Friday the city has experienced challenges trying to enforce the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which is the law necessary to issue citations.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the mayor&#8217;s office and the city attorney are exploring local or state laws that could permit park rangers to ticket visitors who violate regulations intended to keep sea lions safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sierra Club Seal Society said La Jolla Cove is not being adequately managed by the city. They said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-436209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}