Reply to post: RE: A--hole cuts off beach access.

Nearly two billion in the bank and yet this VC is slowly losing his beach-blocking battle

Fatman

RE: A--hole cuts off beach access.

This issue isn't limited to just California, it is also a serious problem here in Flori-duh also.

Developers who buy beachfront property to put up condos by the thousands think little of the rights of the public to access that part of the beach below the high tide line. To thwart this greediness, many cities have 'extended street right-of-ways' that would normally "dead end" at the beach road, out toward the water and thus making them "public access points"; much to the chagrin of the developers.

Once declared to be a 'right-of-way' there is nothing a developer can do to stop the public from accessing the beach.

Perhaps what the local government need do is to use its power of eminent domain and take a strip of land along the property line running at a 'right angle'1 to the ocean. That will fuck him.

1It may not necessarily be exactly 90 degrees, but it would involve the property lines that intersect the ocean (if extended out into the ocean); as opposed to those that run nearly parallel to the ocean.

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