A new version of the county’s Local Coastal Program will get a hearing next with the Board of Supervisors, in an attempt to remedy changes made last year by the California Coastal Commission—particularly changes around agriculture—that the county finds unacceptable. In general, the county has concerns that some changes, like permit requirements and rules for agricultural residences, are too strict in the program, which governs 30,000 acres of agriculturally zoned land. Supervisors originally endorsed a new L.C.P., which had not been comprehensively updated in over three decades, in 2013. But last year, when coastal commissioners convened at the Inverness Yacht Club to consider the program’s land use component—that is, broad-brush development policies—they approved changes that coastal staffers made to the county’s draft. Since then, the county and commission staffs have been debating those changes, as well as how those changes should be translated into the implementation plan, which comprises the specific language that becomes development code. Many compromises have been made, but “substantive differences” remain, according to the county staff report for the upcoming hearing. For instance, one point of contention revolves around the necessity of obtaining a coastal permit for agricultural activities. In the language they propose, staffers still suggest that those changes do not need permits but that there could be more “careful review” of specific activities like terracing or new wells. The hearing takes place on Aug. 25 at 1:30 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the Civic Center.