The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.

CNN: 10 dazzling hideaways by the sea

Sandy flats lie to the east, west and south, with empty lots jutting up against halted new construction, gambling mainstays and the crumbling inner city.

BBC: Atlantic City��s fading boardwalk empire

The plans affect 18 pitches at West View Park and 30 at Sandy Park, on Chesterton Fen Road.

BBC: Sandy Park, Chesterton

This afternoon I walked around the Fashion District, the Meatpacking District and the West Village to survey the damage from Hurricane Sandy.

FORBES: Video Of Downtown New York After Hurricane Sandy

In his poignantly personal account, Burke recounts his seemingly post-apocalyptic journey to the Upper West Side from his home in Brooklyn in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

FORBES: In Response To 'New York City After Hurricane Sandy'

My journey took me to BBC Television Centre in west London where I was wheeled out as the latest talking head analysing the impact of Hurricane Sandy as it battered the east coast of the United States.

FORBES: Hurricane Sandy - In the Eye of the Storm

In the west of the city, Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond have great access to Ocean Beach, a wide sandy expanse on the Pacific Ocean.

BBC: Living in: Great waterfront cities

The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of West Virginia and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Sandy during the period of October 29 to November 8, 2012.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs West Virginia Disaster Declaration

While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.

WSJ: Report: Sandy was USA's 2nd-costliest hurricane