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Sea Ranch, also known as The Sea Ranch, is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Pacific coast of Sonoma County, California, about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

The Sea Ranch stretches along roughly 10 miles of rugged Sonoma coastline, and the CDP covers about 16.2 square miles.

The 2020 census counted 1,169 residents in Sea Ranch, down from 1,305 in 2010 — most of its roughly 1,800 houses are second homes, with only a few hundred full-time residents.

The first people known to live in the area were the Pomo, who gathered kelp and shellfish from its beaches.

Sea Ranch was conceived by architect and planner Al Boeke, who first surveyed the land in 1962; Oceanic California Inc. bought the property in 1963 and assembled a celebrated design team.

Its master plan was created by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, with buildings designed by architects including Charles Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull Jr., Donlyn Lyndon and Richard Whitaker.

Sea Ranch is famous for its distinctive architecture of simple timber-frame houses clad in wood siding or shingles, modeled on local barns and built to weather in place — a look known as the 'Sea Ranch style' or Third Bay Tradition.

Condominium One, the first unit built at Sea Ranch, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Controversy over public access to Sea Ranch's 10 miles of coast helped spur the creation of the California Coastal Commission, which imposed a building moratorium on the community from 1973 to 1980 and cut its planned homesites from about 5,200 to 2,300.

Sea Ranch design rules prohibit perimeter fences and restrict non-native plants to screened courtyards, so the houses sit unfenced in shared meadows and hedgerows.