Jimmy Durante Blvd Bluff Stabilization Project

The project proposes engineering improvements to an existing soldier pile wall located along a bluff adjacent to Jimmy Durante Boulevard in Del Mar, California. This CEQA determination also applies to the existing wall that was installed as part of an emergency slope repair project in 2019 to stabilize an active (at the time) slope failure just west of APN 299-172-27. The proposed improvements are intended to further stabilize the slope and minimize the potential for future slope failure to occur. The project proposes to extend the existing wall approximately 45 feet to the south, utilizing a similar soldier pile wall configuration. Maximum exposed height of the proposed wall would be 6.5 feet. Such improvements would require minor grading along the slope to accommodate the wall extension as proposed. After the wall extension is constructed, drought-tolerant native species would be installed as landscaping along the slope below the wall to reduce visibility of the wall and to visually blend the improvements into the existing setting. Areas that were temporarily disturbed during project construction would be hydroseeded and planted with native plant and shrub species to minimize the potential for future erosion. Minor improvements are proposed just north of Luzon Avenue to install an irrigation system with connection to an existing water line (in Luzon Avenue). The project would also replace five existing storm drain inlets within the public right-of-way along Jimmy Durante Boulevard, north of the slope where the wall extension is proposed.