Exhibit 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

Contacts:	Raymond J. Pacini
	Chief Executive Officer
	California Coastal Communities, Inc.
	(949) 250-7781

CALC Completes Sale of 103 Acres at Bolsa Chica

IRVINE, California, December 21, 2005 – California Coastal Communities, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALC) announced that earlier today the Company completed the $65 million sale of its 103-acre Lower Bench portion of the Bolsa Chica mesa to the State of California’s Wildlife Conservation Board.

“Completing the sale of the Lower Bench results in 96% of Bolsa Chica being preserved as open space,” stated Raymond J. Pacini, CEO of the Company.  “We now look forward to starting construction on our 349-home ‘Brightwater’ project on the Upper Bench of the Bolsa Chica mesa during the second quarter of 2006.  Brightwater represents one of the last opportunities to develop a master planned community on the coast of Southern California.”

The Company plans to use approximately $30 million of the proceeds from this sale to repay mezzanine and other project debt.  During the first half of 2006, the Company’s management and board of directors will be evaluating alternative uses for the remaining proceeds, which may include, but are not limited to, further debt repayments, project financing, land acquisitions, stock repurchases and/or dividends.

The Company is a residential land development and homebuilding company operating in Southern California. The Company’s principal subsidiaries are Signal Landmark and Hearthside Homes, Inc.  Signal Landmark owns 105 acres on the Bolsa Chica mesa, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean and the Bolsa Chica wetlands in Orange County, California.  Hearthside Homes, Inc.

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has delivered over 1,800 homes to families throughout Southern California over the last ten years.

Prohibition Against Becoming a 5% Stockholder and No Further Acquisitions by Current 5% or Greater Stockholders

Unless the Company has previously consented in writing (i) no stockholder holding less than 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock may acquire additional shares of Common Stock in an amount that would take such holder to 5% or more; and (ii) no current 5% or greater stockholder may acquire any additional shares. The foregoing prohibition is contained in the Company’s charter documents, in order to preserve the tax benefits of the Company’s $168 million of net operating loss carryovers (“NOLs”). All acquisitions of the Company’s Common Stock in violation of its charter prohibitions are null and void, and the Company is empowered to effectively rescind such acquisitions.  The Company may entertain requests for permission to exceed the limitations on stock acquisitions in the foreseeable future if the Company’s board of directors determines that such acquisitions would not jeopardize the Company’s ability to preserve and use its NOLs.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Certain of the foregoing information contain forward-looking statements that relate to future events or the Company’s future financial performance. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “predicts”, “potential”,

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“continue”, or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to statements about the Company’s plans, objectives, goals, expectations and intentions, the timing and outcomes of real estate development, the timing and outcomes of regulatory approval processes or administrative proceedings, and other statements contained herein that are not historical facts.

Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations or beliefs regarding future events or circumstances, and you should not place undue reliance on these statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors — many of which are out of the Company’s control and difficult to forecast — that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that may be described or implied. Such factors include but are not limited to: local and general economic and market conditions; the impact on economic conditions of terrorist attacks or the outbreak or escalation of armed conflict involving the United States; the demand for residential real estate; governmental regulation, including the impact of “slow growth” or similar initiatives; delays in the land entitlement process, development and construction; environmental matters; future business decisions and the Company’s ability to successfully implement its operational, growth and other strategies; litigation; and other risks discussed in the Company’s past and future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Company assumes no, and hereby disclaims any, obligation to update any of the foregoing or any other forward-looking statements. The Company nonetheless reserves the right to make such updates from time to time by press release, periodic report or other method of public disclosure without the need for specific reference to this press release. No such update shall be deemed to indicate that other statements not addressed by such update remain correct or create an obligation to provide any other updates.

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