Sand deficit: Coastal erosion is so bad in California that the residents of this mostly Republican city may tax themselves to restore the beach
For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore. That trip has been cut short. Coastal erosion has been eating away at the beach in San Clemente, known for nearly a century as a “Spanish village…