30-a beach looks like tent city

[GoodWitch58]

Sorry, I have been told that I am just a poor uneducated person who does not understand for so long that I think it is starting to take.

Well, it's never too late to make another choice!

 

[30A Skunkape]

Nothing in the procedures or in any of the laws I have posted gives Code Enforcement the right to go on private property. So I doubt the net at Edgewater is affected. Those CE officers are educated and certified, we have had private property discussions in the past and they have told me that they could easily be arrested for trespassing and theft. So I doubt you will see them do anything other than clean up or tag the stuff on public land.

As for the money, I would imagine that the TDC employees and the education portion will be paid by the tourist tax. Code enforcement are paid out of ad valoreum, so this clean up project will more than likely result in at least a small tax hike. .25 mils is the rumor I keep hearing that they want to go up, with this it will probably go to .5 mils. Not a lot for me, and I am happy to contribute my little bit to make you guys happy, you wanted beach clean up, it appears things are going to be put into place for you to get it. So what would that be 150 dollars on a 300K home? I can never remember how to figure that stuff without a calculator.

Right you are, however, there is language regarding the protected status of the sea turtles. Those who cry foul regarding their right to do whatever they want on their property might just see things differently if state and maybe federal wildlife folks start poking around looking at the crap that is a threat to turtles. With ownership comes responsibility;you would be in deep doo-doo if you cut down a tree on your property that had a bald eagle nest in it, and the same goes for those who contend they 'own' the beach.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Not bitter at all just old and tired of the continual onslaught and erosion of personal responsibility to be replace by poorly conceived and administered attempts to legislate behavior.

Mean spirited - - no just realistic concerning Barney, Goober and Gomer.

Hmmm...this statement is very telling. What about YOUR personal responsibility to be a good steward of the "beach you own"? Hasn't that eroded?

 

[Interested Girl]

The Lord Giveth and Taketh Away - it is a natural process. I watch the process daily and was aware of the process when we decided to buy and build.

 

[wrobert]

My brain is starting to hurt. I am going back to sleep.

 

[wrobert]

Those who cry foul regarding their right to do whatever they want on their property might just see things differently if state and maybe federal wildlife folks start poking around looking at the crap that is a threat to turtles. With ownership comes responsibility;you would be in deep doo-doo if you cut down a tree on your property that had a bald eagle nest in it, and the same goes for those who contend they 'own' the beach.

If they were going to do anything they would have done it already. All they are making the county do is write a plan that is going to make it even harder for those that are not breaking the rules to enjoy the beach.

 

[30ABandMan]

Over 30 of those tent things along with other crap left on SGB this evening. It really is pretty crappy looking. Ya know, I like to believe that peeps that come here for vacation really want to preserve this special place. I find it hard to believe that all of the rental places actually inform all of the renters that there are rules concerning the leaving of junk of the beach or the rules of the multi use path. Maybe a campaign aimed at more information at the point of the lease would be helpful.

 

[30A Skunkape]

If they were going to do anything they would have done it already. All they are making the county do is write a plan that is going to make it even harder for those that are not breaking the rules to enjoy the beach.

'They' who? I am not following.
I guess I don't understand why some of us are so content to let the major revenue generating asset this county enjoys go to crapola. Perhaps those who want an easy beach experience (defined, I guess as the ability to leave a bunch of junk all over the place for days at a time, consequences be damned) would, and should be welcome in Bay, Okaloosa or Santa Rosa. Let them go. And I might suggest 'private property owners':roll: who let 'their' :roll::roll::roll:beach go to crap ought to think about swapping that beachfront condo for a nice mobile home in a locale where such behavior is tolerated.

 

[enfuego]

Why are you so bitter? Your post is mean spirited, imo.

Come on Miss Kitty, you didn't expect anything more did you???

 

[GoodWitch58]

I think it would be interesting if one of the local papers would do a "Person on the Beach" type interview with people to see exactly what the thinking is with these "funeral tents" on the beach; why do they bring then in the first place--I have enjoyed this beach all my life and it has never occurred to me to bring a tent to the beach--and why do they feel as though they have the right to leave them up?

Is there anywhere else in the world that this behavior is tolerated?

Maybe there is, and this is what causes it to continue here? I don't know--I have not seen it on other beaches....I think it would make an interesting news story.