Californians deserve affordable housing and access to a healthy coastline. AB 2560 (Alvarez) is forcing the State Legislature to choose between these two critical priorities for our state. By creating a class of development exempt from the Coastal Act, this bill signals that some types of development can be sited in areas that are potentially unsafe from sea level rise or where coastal access might be threatened. Critically needed efforts to promote housing development in California’s coastal zone should work with coastal access and resource protections — not against them.