The Santa Barbara County Community Services Department has announced that the beaches at Isla Vista will be closed due to the potential for a Floatopia event on Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6, 2014.

The Santa Barbara County Community Services Department has announced that the beaches at Isla Vista will be closed due to the potential for a Floatopia event on Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6, 2014. The closure is being declared to prevent a re-occurrence of the conditions that resulted from the 2009 Floatopia. The Santa Barbara County Code (Section 26-11) authorizes the Community Services Department to close any County recreation area includingbeaches.

Following the Floatopia event of 2009, the beaches at Isla Vista were left strewn with trash and debris, including human waste. This large scale event with thousands of participants had no provision for the health and well being of the public, including no facilities for human sanitation or refuse collection. The County of Santa Barbara, therefore took action to close the Isla Vista beaches for a similar event in 2010, 2011, 2012 and2013.

The Floatopia event planned for April 5, 2014 is not a sanctioned event and there are no approved permits issued. As such, the County Community Services Department will declare the Isla Vista beaches closed to public entry to protect public health and safety and to protect the beach from excessive waste and litter. The Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department will enforce theclosure.

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Isla Vista County Beaches Closed April 5-6, 2014