Editing Laguna Beach, California (section)

==Conservation and environment==
[[Image:Laguna Beach people.jpg|thumb|Main Beach in Laguna Beach]]

Laguna Beach is the only Orange County city protected by a dedicated greenbelt inland and bluebelt seaward. In 1968, local conservationists founded Laguna Greenbelt and began a drive to conserve a horseshoe of hills and canyons surrounding Laguna Beach.<ref>{{cite news | title=Laguna Greenbelt: An Idea That Became a Crusade | newspaper=Los Angeles Times |last=Fetherling |first=Dale | date=September 19, 1976 | page=OC1}}</ref> As of 2011, more than {{convert|20000|acre}} of contiguous wildlands constituted The Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Jim Dilley Preserve, Crystal Cove State Park, and the Aliso-Wood Canyons Wilderness Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lagunagreenbelt.org/laguna_greenbelt_history.html|title=Laguna Greenbelt History|year=2011|work=About|publisher=Lagunagreenbelt.org|access-date=October 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809214813/http://www.lagunagreenbelt.org/laguna_greenbelt_history.html|archive-date=August 9, 2014}}</ref>

The creation of the {{convert|7000|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Laguna Coast Wilderness Park]] as a protected area began in the late 1980s and early 1990s when local artists, activists and politicians rallied to preserve [[Laguna Canyon]]. With the environmentally focused [[Laguna Canyon Project]] and its photographic mural, "The Tell,"<ref>Cathy Curtis. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-21-ca-775-story.html "''The Tell'' Does Indeed Deliver Its Message of Protest,"] ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 21, 1989.</ref> as backdrop and stimulus, Laguna citizens forged a partnership to prevent construction of a {{convert|3200|acre|adj=on}} housing project in the canyon. An exhibition on the Laguna Canyon Project, titled "The Canyon Project: Artivism," was held at [[Laguna Art Museum]] in 2015–16.<ref>Dave Barton. [http://www.ocweekly.com/2015-10-29/culture/the-canyon-project-artivism-laguna-art-museum/full/" "Laguna Art Museum exhibit celebrates the city's defining feature—no, it's not the beach"]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''OC Weekly,'' October 29, 2015.</ref><ref>Antoine Boessenkool. [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/laguna-687778-chamberlain-road.html" "New exhibit in Laguna recalls 'The Canyon Project'"] ''Orange County Register,'' October 17, 2015.</ref> Today the Wilderness Park and Laguna Canyon within it are designated as open space in perpetuity.<ref name="Laguna Coast Wilderness Park,"/>

The [[Laguna Beach State Marine Reserve]] (LBSMR), which extends from Irvine Cove to Treasure Island Beach, was established in 2012, to make most of the coastal area a no-take zone.<ref name="Reckas">{{cite news|url=http://www.lagunabeachindy.com/2011/12/30/ocean-protections-ashore/|title=New Ocean Protections Come Ashore|last=Reckas|first=Ted|date=December 30, 2011|work=Laguna Beach Independent|access-date=October 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724221935/https://lagunabeachindy.com/2011/12/30/ocean-protections-ashore/|archive-date=July 24, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Docents of the Laguna Ocean Foundation provide monitoring and education at tidepools within the LBSMR.<ref name="Reckas"/> In addition, the {{convert|3.2|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} [[Crystal Cove State Park]] abuts the northern border of Laguna Beach.

As a result of Laguna's Marine Protected Area "no-take zones" the local waters teem with fish, including sheepshead and large calico bass.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/opinion-green-light-7/|title=Opinion: Green Light|date=January 29, 2021}}</ref>

American Craftsman Bungalows from the early 1900s dot the downtown and South Laguna areas. Between 1980 and 1981, the city conducted the Laguna Beach Historic Survey, a citywide block-by-block study which noted the location of pre-1940 buildings and determined which had historic significance.<ref>{{cite web|last=UC Irvine Special Collections|title=Guide to the Laguna Beach Historic Survey Board Records, 1980-1981|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2h4nb12j/}}</ref> 706 homes and structures in Laguna Beach were classified as historically significant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lagunabeachcity.net/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=2500|title=Laguna Beach Historic Resources Survey|last=Rollinger|first=Verna|author2=Laguna Beach City Council|date=December 21, 1982|publisher=Lagunabeachcity.net|access-date=October 6, 2013|archive-date=May 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521154224/http://lagunabeachcity.net/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=2500|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Laguna Beach is the tenth official [[Transition Towns|Transition Town]] in the U.S. In February 2007, Laguna's city council unanimously voted to join the [[Mayors Climate Protection Center|U.S. Mayors Climate Initiative]], and in April 2013 became the first Orange County city to make a formal request that the San Onofre Nuclear Reactor not be restarted after its January 2012 shutdown. The Aliso Creek Water Reclamation Facility went into operation in 2014. The facility removes polluted runoff in Aliso Creek, improves ocean water quality, and creates locally recycled water.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://scwd.org/projects/alisocreek.asp |title=Laguna Beach Water Project |access-date=May 27, 2014 |archive-date=May 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528010717/http://www.scwd.org/projects/alisocreek.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> With a grant from Cal Trans, the city is undertaking a transition plan to implement [[Complete Streets]] for all users. A north–south bicycle route with signs and [[sharrows]] was completed through town in 2014. Laguna Beach passed a citywide "[[Idaho stop]]" ordinance for cyclists, a no-plastic-bag ordinance and a no-plastic-bottle purchasing policy for its government.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}