The townhomes on Mirada Road in Half Moon Bay, California, are in danger of immediate collapse due to erosion from the Pacific Ocean, but the homeowners' association rushed to build a rock wall to protect the homes. In response, the California Coastal Commission approved a land management plan in 2016 that suggested the homes should be relocated or removed. Two years later, the commission approved a new land management plan that again suggested the homes should be relocated or removed. The homeowners' association sued the agency, arguing both that the commission was required to protect the homes under state law and that Half Moon Bay's plan to relocate homes was unconstitutional. The locals got a favorable preliminary ruling in the first case, convincing a state court judge that the commission was in the wrong. They are now pressing the agency to settle and allow their proposed sea wall, while also pushing to overturn Half Moon Bay's relocation plan. The fracas over Mirada Road is just the latest in a series of legal disputes over "

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