I believe the county had a prime opportunity to purchase the large tract of land when the market was down across the street from the Dune Allen "Ft. Panic" beach access. It would have made a great parking facility. 
New TDC Regional Beach access opposed by Beachfront owners
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I'm not familiar with Walton Rose Ln, but trying to get out of driveways with parking in ROWs right up to the driveways (check out 30A) does create safety issues as a result of not being able to see to pull out into traffic. ROW parking also creates hazards from car doors opening into traffic or multi-use paths. Children, and even adults, are sometimes difficult to see and will step out from between vehicles. Sight lines are used to keep an intersecting area clear enough to safely see and enter oncoming traffic. They are used where roads intersect and/or driveways intersect roads.
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Vote was 4-1 for workshop with C. Jones voting "No". (Previous BCC meeting vote on this access before revisit was 3-2 against with C. Jones voting "No".)
It is hard for me to understand denying beach access through county owned land to "a public beach", especially an area experiencing a great concentration of development with future build-outs. We are only talking a walkover and a bike rack! The accesses west of Headlands have no bike racks or space for bikes and we are supposed to be a bike friendly location? Its no wonder why we have transportation issues.
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Wasn't that four acres for less than $800,000? Now developed with single family homes?I believe the county had a prime opportunity to purchase the large tract of land when the market was down across the street from the Dune Allen "Ft. Panic" beach access. It would have made a great parking facility.
Yes.
To their credit, the county did spend 2.3 million in 2003 to purchase the 3 acre Stallworth property at the end of Stallworth Blvd. (insert sarcasm tag here)
13 years later we are still waiting for that site to be available to the public...oh wait, it won't because it's at the end of a private gated street.
It was purchased as preservation of dune mice habitat. It was never intended to be developed.
Sounds like a sweetheart deal for homeowners behind a gate.
That is not entirely true. I happen to know the circumstances intimately.
However, that was not my point...my point was, the county (along with the land preservation trust, in full disclosure), was more than eager to make that deal. But couldn't muster up the ability to purchase the Fort Panic piece where parking is desperately needed.
BTW, if there is interest. Check out the mission of the Land Preservation Trust. You will find it includes preserving land for the recreational use of the public.
