Should government bail out seawall owners?

[scooterbug44]

Question - with all of this legislative attention, why can't they have the Florida DEP get the lead out and address the issues? Their lack of action seems to be a recurring theme as to why this issue has not been resolved.

(The monumentally stupid and incompetant FDEP folks in Tallahassee get my vote as a way for Governor Scott to cut the budget.)

 

[beachmouse]

Don't look for it anytime soon. The new head of DEP apparently has little to no experience in environmental fields.

 

[scooterbug44]

Don't look for it anytime soon. The new head of DEP apparently has little to no experience in environmental fields.

Um, then why the hail are they the new head of DEP?

 

[beachmouse]

Because he's going to be responsible for dismantling it and folding it into a an anti-envirnomental, pro-unregulated business growth agency:

Scott picks shipbuilding executive to head environmental protection agency - St. Petersburg Times

 

[scooterbug44]

And so it begins.

 

[Alicia Leonard]

There are still a few of those left between here and PCB, and I wish I owned one. Beautiful little homes.

I love the ones along Mexico Beach.

 

[miznotebook]

DEP is barred from taking any action to approve or deny permit applications for any of the post-Hurricane Dennis seawalls until July 1, 2011. This was part of the general appropriations bill passed by the legislature in the 2010 session.

 

[30ashopper]

I love the ones along Mexico Beach.

I have not been that far down along the coast, but I'll have to drive down and take a look since you mentioned it. Do they have white sand there? I was thinking of some of the homes I've seen on Laguna and Panama City Beach.

 

[30ashopper]

Well property sure as heck is cheaper down there. Dang!

 

[beachmouse]

It's white sand through Mexico Beach, but it starts getting marshy once you get SE of there. I really like the area, and it's about asOld Florida as you can get around here that still has a decent beach.


Cape San Blas is nice and sandy, but the prices are low because it's a very high erosion area (they've got huge concrete rip-rap in order to keep the road from washing out past the 'stumphole') and the insurance options there are supposed to be pretty much non-existing or prohibitively expensive. So you need to think cash purchases on the Cape, which limits the buyer pool. That and how they'll commonly lose a half dozen Cape beach houses during even a somewhat rockin' tropical storm that sends surge in the wrong direction.