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Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

Reggie Gaskins avatar
Beach Lover
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When you see a PCB or Destin bumper sticker, what thought immediately comes to mind? Probably same for all of us with any time spent here - nice, but it ain’t 30A! Do you remember why you started renting/visiting here? What was it? Remember when you bought your first 30A property? Why here?
Because it was DIFFERENT, right? Remember the words you used to describe it to family and friends as you invited them here? “Private” “Quiet” “Intimate” “Less crowded”. That wasn’t by accident. The entire genetic code of Sowal beaches is because of the private ownership and neighborhood beach personalities.
You could rent “private beach”. You could buy “private beach”. There wasn’t a free for all frat party atmosphere because of unlimited public beach access on the sands. That behavior was regulated by the privately owned property where such behavior was immediately squelched. And yet, by custom, no one was ever “Kicked off” of private beaches because owners don’t do that unless bad actors abuse the privilege.
Walton County has always had more than 50% PUBLIC beach. Still does. That hasn’t changed. There are now deliberately misleading fear tactics out there with scary words like “Quiet Title” and “Privatization”, neither of which have affected one single square inch of public beach, not one. Yet, the mob mentality, orchestrated by local carnival barkers eager for fame and notoriety, and dollars, have mislead the citizens and deliberately tried to divide the community in a shell game of Customary Use.
The fact is that the county outran the capabilities of local Commissioners to plan for growth 20 years ago, and we haven’t improved that talent to deal with it even yet. So the County, in failing to plan beach availability, tried to illegally claim private property as public, without following the laws requiring judicial oversight. The local Good Ol’ Boys overreached their authority and got caught by the adults in Tallahassee. So they then decides to sue 4,800 of Sowal citizens to take their property. That’s right, your tax money is being spent, and a lot of it, to SUE almost 5,000 of your neighbors, and steal what they agreed to purchase at a premium, and have a deed to prove it.
Don’t blame them please, they didn’t want or ask for this fight. They live here and care for these beaches just like you and me. Go meet them, they are truly the eclectic fabric of 30A. The signs they had to put up are just in defense of this new orchestrated public attack against them.
The bottom line is this: The minute you release the public to occupy all of Sowal beaches, you IMMEDIATELY get nasty Destin and PCB problems. How will you feel about that 30A sticker then? Nostalgic? Me too.

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Rachael Ashman McKee avatar
Beach Lover
#2252
PS: who is Dana Marie? I have received several emails from this person/SoWal to respond
Beach Lover
#2253
mputnal said:
On your parcel do you put up fence or other means of delineating a private specific use? If not then how would you expect a beach user to interpret your private specific use?

The key word here is "private".

And it is developers, business owners, and surfer vigilantes that are wearing the "Team Power Broker" jerseys as they push the CU narrative.

The BFO's just want the rights to their legally obtained property to remain in their respective control.

It is the USA.
Beach Comber
#2254
PS: who is Dana Marie? I have received several emails from this person/SoWal to respond
Hi, Rachael, it's DanaMarie. I haven't emailed you. You were invited to a Conversation started by another member, as was I, and I posted to that conversation. Maybe that is why you got a notification and thought it was an email from me.
Beach Comber
#2255
Good points Alex Miles.

I agree with the opinion of many along 30A, BFO's and non-BFO's, that the whole CU push is losing steam. The law and facts will supersede group-think emotion. The educated people on both sides of the issue realize the incredible county tax dollar waste with the lawsuit, the seemingly unwillingness of the WCC to work toward a compromise, and the reality that there is plenty of beach for everyone. It really is unfortunate that the WCC selected this path.

SUP View, I really enjoyed the book Victims of Groupthink. I read it many years ago and its lessens have stuck with me. Look how well the "groupthink" mentally worked out for JFK in the Bay of Pigs fiasco (NOT!).
FloridaBeachBum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2256
Hey Mary B., for someone in Sep who called for the public customary use thread to be shut down because “of hate and rants.” #1483 9/4/2019, then post photos of private property on the CU thread and make BPO judgments -- without any facts seems disingenuous. Except to vilify a BPO and BPO social media doxing. Would you like it if someone did what you have on your private property in north BMB without any facts? OUR beaches has always been and is legally the foreshore sand seaward of the MHWL property boundary. Not too many issues there. But if you have some facts about BPO code violations - please start a thread and inform us there.

DanaMarie, the anti-social media and misinformation has not worked out well for the largest democratic parliamentary republic in the world - India. “India, where roughly 450 million people have smartphones, is already struggling with a huge fake news problem with misinformation having led to mass beatings and mob lynchings.” Fake Videos, Photos And Messages Circulate On Social Media Amid India Pakistan Tensions
Beach Lover
#2257
Yup.

“The beatings will continue until moral improves”.
Beach Fanatic
#2258
Hey Mary B., for someone in Sep who called for the public customary use thread to be shut down because “of hate and rants.” #1483 9/4/2019, then post photos of private property on the CU thread and make BPO judgments -- without any facts seems disingenuous. Except to vilify a BPO and BPO social media doxing. Would you like it if someone did what you have on your private property in north BMB without any facts? OUR beaches has always been and is legally the foreshore sand seaward of the MHWL property boundary. Not too many issues there. But if you have some facts about BPO code violations - please start a thread and inform us there.

DanaMarie, the anti-social media and misinformation has not worked out well for the largest democratic parliamentary republic in the world - India. “India, where roughly 450 million people have smartphones, is already struggling with a huge fake news problem with misinformation having led to mass beatings and mob lynchings.” Fake Videos, Photos And Messages Circulate On Social Media Amid India Pakistan Tensions
Calm down man or woman I’m more on the side of Beach front owners then CU..The irresponsible obnoxious disrespectful behavior of people who are visitors here disgusts me and most residents and friends just as much as it does you. If real and consistent ENFORCEMENT had been done the last several years rather than appeasing the tourists a lot of this could’ve been avoided...take a chill pill
Beach Fanatic
#2259
Beachfront owners playing the victim whining whining poor me oh poor me CU is so mean.

Does that actually work for anyone?

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jodiFL avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2260
Is Huckabee really our enemy? Do you even know him? Or are your opinions about him formed by what you've read in social media and tabloid editorials?
Is your legal understanding of quieting a title on private property as sound as you think it is?
Why have the customary use activivists zeroed in on Huckabee?

Do you know how the ol' Huckster came to be a resident of our beaches? Do you think that the fact we have no state income tax here had anything to do with his move to Florida? Maybe you should read up on how he and his buddy Haak came about building on a "unbuildable" lots. How they managed to get houses built on the beach to start with has me irritated.
Beach Fanatic
#2261
Sup, I disagree with your key word "private". In property law "use" is vital to the establishment of who or what has the power of control. Your lawsuit is about "control" as you correctly stated which is the same as power. The court will try and determine how the beach has been and is being "used". The legal description in the deed is not accurate because of the nature of the dynamics of the shoreline is constantly changing and moving. The county has evidence of public recreational use. There are no barriers on a beach. No fences. No anything to designate where the property lines are because they keep changing. Your exclusive buildings should be exclusive enough but you are distracting from the fact that you want the power of control over the beach. Alex Miles explained to us that the beach is not normal Realestate and I agree. I asked Fbb to comment on the statement by Alex Miles but he punted. I know you power brokers are intentionally misleading your purpose. Imo you do not care about the 30A community one little bit even though you reference all the problems with development and the relationship between the county and developers. You could care less about an issue until it effects your life. It is a shame because we actually agree on many of the issues but we could not be further apart on how to solve those issues. I am certain there were compromises that would have helped. Giving you the power to control the beach would be a colossal mistake for public enjoyment of the beach. Many of the statements made by your group point directly toward an elite belief of power. An abuse of power always follow those with no checks and balances of that power. It is not necessarily a crime to abuse power but it is bad for the community and harmful to shared enjoyment of any resource by the public. An abuse of power hurts the people as you gain even more advantage over resources. You try to assign mob like behavior to the public but there is NO evidence. Yes, your words have evoked deep emotions on both sides. That was your purpose. I really wish I was wrong about your purpose but you and yours have forever opened my eyes to what an abuse of power means to this community and to this Country. I do not belief you and yours care much about listening to anyone in this community. I do not think you want to learn something nice about the people who enjoy the beach. I think you want to talk...a lot...about how the public is a disrespectful mob and your purpose is to try and prove it by provocation. I think you have failed. I will give you credit for the effort because it has been like a hurricane of destructive winds. It is amazing to me the effect of politics on people and you have used that to your full advantage. I wish we the people would use our common sense instead of living in the twilight zone of political propaganda...
FloridaBeachBum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2262
I give customary use believers credit for creative convoluted in-credible beliefs. Kurt has crippled the functionally of my SoWal account. There is no customary use compromise about private property “control” of individual Constitutional rights. The court will rule on the law of the land; not customary use beliefs. Not the number of customary use Komrade (Dave Rauschkolb’s word) anti-social media followers. I do not need to comment on your questions. Research your questions yourself and report back with credible facts any one can look up - not cosmic beliefs. That’s all the “K” consonant words I could think of for now. CUnCourt
Dave Rauschkolb avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2263
I give customary use believers credit for creative convoluted in-credible beliefs. Kurt has crippled the functionally of my SoWal account. There is no customary use compromise about private property “control” of individual Constitutional rights. The court will rule on the law of the land; not customary use beliefs. Not the number of customary use Komrade (Dave Rauschkolb’s word) anti-social media followers. I do not need to comment on your questions. Research your questions yourself and report back with credible facts any one can look up - not cosmic beliefs. That’s all the “K” consonant words I could think of for now. CUnCourt

Well, that’s the shortest answer from Florida beach bum I have ever seen. It appears, mputinal, you’re coherent and accurate statements have him in a kerfuffle. “Kerfuffle,” much like the term “malarkey” is fairly archaic but quite apropos here.

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Jenksy avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2264
Sounds paranoid. I guess the pressure is high when you have to have lawyers and legislators involved to ban average people from the beach.
Beach Fanatic
#2265
I give customary use believers credit for creative convoluted in-credible beliefs. Kurt has crippled the functionally of my SoWal account. There is no customary use compromise about private property “control” of individual Constitutional rights. The court will rule on the law of the land; not customary use beliefs. Not the number of customary use Komrade (Dave Rauschkolb’s word) anti-social media followers. I do not need to comment on your questions. Research your questions yourself and report back with credible facts any one can look up - not cosmic beliefs. That’s all the “K” consonant words I could think of for now. CUnCourt
When was the last time your toes were in the sand?
FloridaBeachBum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2266
Is that the best credible comments CU believers can come up with to support public customary use beliefs? Kerfuffle, paranoid BPOs, and “When was the last time your toes were in the sand?” Irrelevant, emotional, comments about an individual Constitutional rights case that only has 4 to 7 legal criteria to prove? Can any believer list and describe the archaic English CU criteria? Been asked and punted by CU believers this whole thread. Cloudy and cool this morning but the beach sand is just fine.

Ironic Dave Rauschkolb posts about long answers #2263, given the many repeated posts of lengthy CU published diatribes, giant beach Hoover woman, and gi-normous emotional meme photos. My intent is to post credible-facts for BPOs to know what the laws are and the facts that anyone can look up and what CU fictions are. Not bullet-beliefs for anti-social media follower counts and F***ABEE haters. Mike Huckabee’s role in pushing controversial beach access law
CUnCourt
Beach Fanatic
#2267
Is that the best credible comments CU believers can come up with to support public customary use beliefs? Kerfuffle, paranoid BPOs, and “When was the last time your toes were in the sand?” Irrelevant, emotional, comments about an individual Constitutional rights case that only has 4 to 7 legal criteria to prove? Can any believer list and describe the archaic English CU criteria? Been asked and punted by CU believers this whole thread. Cloudy and cool this morning but the beach sand is just fine.

Ironic Dave Rauschkolb posts about long answers #2263, given the many repeated posts of lengthy CU published diatribes, giant beach Hoover woman, and gi-normous emotional meme photos. My intent is to post credible-facts for BPOs to know what the laws are and the facts that anyone can look up and what CU fictions are. Not bullet-beliefs for anti-social media follower counts and F***ABEE haters. Mike Huckabee’s role in pushing controversial beach access law
CUnCourt
Toes in the sand is a simple question. It goes to your credibility and state of mind. Are you a real person who actually enjoys the beach or do you live elsewhere and just want to bully others... Also If social media is antisocial and you are on it all day.... Could that be a factor why you so angry?
FloridaBeachBum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2268
Why do CU believers always try to portray BPOs as angry (or unjustifiably angry at being sued, costing BPOs multiple thousand$, and social media and traditional media viteral targeted at them) and not CU believers angry "state of minds"? Then laugh about it. Just not credible.

Saw car bumper sticker that read "Social Media is Anti-Social" so someone else had thought that before me. I am not on big anti-social media; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat .... Like vocal CU believers and attorneys that reportedly post incessantly for the masses emotional affect without any basis in credible facts. Social media appears to be for photos of your dinner, white locked beach access gates, active shooter videos, spread false facts, and BPO vitriol. Could open and closed division-ing CU social media be a factor why CU believers are so angry? I read many of the closed SoWal Lounge posts for the first time recently. Handful of the same CU believers on this thread except more political, explicit (not conservative), extreme, and angry.

A forum should be open, have credible informed discussions and civil discourse. Not baseless social media CU believer-bullets or BPO attacks or F***ABEE stickers. Maybe social media is why CU believers are angry when the light of credible facts are shown on the CU fictions? My beach and sand is beautiful this morning. Love this time of year. Our foreshore beach is too.

#914 kicked you between the legs and then sued you; would you be angry?
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#421 Customary Use Warriors
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#443 angry posts directed at property rights advocates on this thread alone
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2062 intentional CU believer's misinformation, and F***ABEE stickers make me angry.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2057 47-posts and not one fact; just juvenile angry BPO attacks
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#1643 just a few of the CU believers' angry descriptions of beachfront owners - on this thread.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#601 angry at the Commissioners and anti-social media vitriol
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy
Dave Rauschkolb avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2269
Why do CU believers always try to portray BPOs as angry (or unjustifiably angry at being sued, costing BPOs multiple thousand$, and social media and traditional media viteral targeted at them) and not CU believers angry "state of minds"? Then laugh about it. Just not credible.

Saw car bumper sticker that read "Social Media is Anti-Social" so someone else had thought that before me. I am not on big anti-social media; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat .... Like vocal CU believers and attorneys that reportedly post incessantly for the masses emotional affect without any basis in credible facts. Social media appears to be for photos of your dinner, white locked beach access gates, active shooter videos, spread false facts, and BPO vitriol. Could open and closed division-ing CU social media be a factor why CU believers are so angry? I read many of the closed SoWal Lounge posts for the first time recently. Handful of the same CU believers on this thread except more political, explicit (not conservative), extreme, and angry.

A forum should be open, have credible informed discussions and civil discourse. Not baseless social media CU believer-bullets or BPO attacks or F***ABEE stickers. Mike Huckabee’s role in pushing controversial beach access law. Maybe social media is why CU believers are angry when the light of credible facts are shown on the CU fictions? My beach and sand is beautiful this morning. Love this time of year. Our foreshore beach is too.

#914 kicked you between the legs and then sued you; would you be angry?
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#421 Customary Use Warriors
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#443 angry posts directed at property rights advocates on this thread alone
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2062 intentional CU believer's misinformation, and F***ABEE stickers make me angry.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2057 47-posts and not one fact; just juvenile angry BPO attacks
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#1643 just a few of the CU believers' angry descriptions of beachfront owners - on this thread.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#601 angry at the Commissioners and anti-social media vitriol
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

My beach and sand is, you’re correct, beautiful this morning. Because, that sand is your sand, that sand is my sand, that sand is everyone‘s sand. You bought the view and the convenience of being close to the Gulf; That’s it. CU on our beach & CU in Court.

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Beach Fanatic
#2270
Why do CU believers always try to portray BPOs as angry (or unjustifiably angry at being sued, costing BPOs multiple thousand$, and social media and traditional media viteral targeted at them) and not CU believers angry "state of minds"? Then laugh about it. Just not credible.

Saw car bumper sticker that read "Social Media is Anti-Social" so someone else had thought that before me. I am not on big anti-social media; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat .... Like vocal CU believers and attorneys that reportedly post incessantly for the masses emotional affect without any basis in credible facts. Social media appears to be for photos of your dinner, white locked beach access gates, active shooter videos, spread false facts, and BPO vitriol. Could open and closed division-ing CU social media be a factor why CU believers are so angry? I read many of the closed SoWal Lounge posts for the first time recently. Handful of the same CU believers on this thread except more political, explicit (not conservative), extreme, and angry.

A forum should be open, have credible informed discussions and civil discourse. Not baseless social media CU believer-bullets or BPO attacks or F***ABEE stickers. Maybe social media is why CU believers are angry when the light of credible facts are shown on the CU fictions? My beach and sand is beautiful this morning. Love this time of year. Our foreshore beach is too.

#914 kicked you between the legs and then sued you; would you be angry?
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#421 Customary Use Warriors
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#443 angry posts directed at property rights advocates on this thread alone
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2062 intentional CU believer's misinformation, and F***ABEE stickers make me angry.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#2057 47-posts and not one fact; just juvenile angry BPO attacks
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#1643 just a few of the CU believers' angry descriptions of beachfront owners - on this thread.
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy

#601 angry at the Commissioners and anti-social media vitriol
Customary Use and Our 30A Legacy
Dude, you win the internet award for biggest victim. :lolabove:

Rich people whining incessantly on the internet all day every day is not going to gain you one ounce of sympathy. You hurt your cause every time you post. If you had an attorney worth a dollar he would make you stop.
FloridaBeachBum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2271
My beach and sand is, you’re correct, beautiful this morning. Because, that sand is your sand, that sand is my sand, that sand is everyone‘s sand. You bought the view and the convenience of being close to the Gulf; That’s it. CU on our beach & CU in Court.
That is funny since you do not own any Gulf beach sand or can you prove me wrong? CU on our 850 miles of Florida foreshore beaches and CUnCourt.
Dawn avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2272
That is funny since you do not own any Gulf beach sand or can you prove me wrong? CU on our 850 miles of Florida foreshore beaches and CUnCourt.
You do not own sand either. As a matter of fact, it is illegal to remove sand from the beach. You have a view is all.

The arrogance of people with beach views has become extremely thick around here.
Dave Rauschkolb avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2273
Asking for a friend. How many Beach front owners are full-time residents in SoWal?
Beach Lover
#2274
Can someone answer the following:

If I were to purchase a beach front property (not planning to as I already own a non beach from home and am quite happy there), and a title company issued me a title policy insuring the plot of land that extends to the HWML on the beach, is that not my private property?
Dave Rauschkolb avatar
Beach Fanatic
#22751
Oh Jim, aka/waltonwatchdog! So glad to be back on your radar. Thank you so much for retweeting my very informative and appreciated article in the name of keeping our beaches open to the public.

Yes I do live in Watersound Beach! Like any private beachfront home or any community development that has private access, private access is private access; private access is not in dispute but the USE of our beaches is (#CU/SeeYouInCourt).

Watersound Beach may be accessed and used by the public from the public access just east of Watersound Beach near the community where your non-beachfront home is and also at the Deer Lake State Park. Saint Joe/Watersound doesn’t step down to the level of placing private property signs/No trespassing sigs on their beaches. And I doubt very seriously we will ever see those unwelcoming and offensive signs there, nor will anyone ever likely be kicked off the beach on any Saint Joe Beach properties.

Merry Christmas to you and yours and thank you for your service to our country Sir. And should I ever see you on our beaches again I’ll certainly shake your hand again. After all, we are all neighbors with different viewpoints but I have respect for all beach front owners just like I have respect for you.



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Alex Miles avatar
Beach Comber
#2276
Yes I do live in Watersound Beach! ...
Watersound Beach may be accessed and used by the public ... Saint Joe/Watersound doesn’t step down to the level of placing private property signs... nor will anyone ever likely be kicked off the beach on any Saint Joe Beach properties.

Dave, then why is Watersound in court defending its private beach property rights against your customary use lawsuit? Tell the public the truth about your private beach.

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