Adobe Shed demolition and conservation easement change at 236 Asilomar Avenue
Summary
The owner wants to tear down a crumbling adobe shed that's technically a 'dangerous structure' and fold its footprint into the protected dune conservation easement. Historians have repeatedly said it isn't a historic resource, but a 2021 condition requires keeping it — the product of an old neighbor dispute. Commissioners are wrestling with whether to unwind that deal.
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Last discussed Apr 9, 2026.
Impact analysis
The owner reportedly paid over $100,000 toward the EIR during the dispute; demolition and dune restoration costs fall to the property owner.
The property owner gains a buildable, safer site and a consolidated conservation easement; the dunes benefit from less fragmentation.
Preservation-minded residents lose an adobe structure, though historians say it never qualified as historic.
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