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Teresa

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Staff member
Nov 15, 2004
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Far more who applauded his actions and said that signs were "trash" so they should be thrown away. Some people just defended his actions, but others actually called him a hero.
I'm glad I missed all this. What a sad time we're experiencing in so many ways. The signs on the beach are such a terrible sight on our beautiful beaches in Walton County. Between signs, removal of trash can service from whole areas, vendor chairs and umbrellas gone wild, homeowners chasing off families from the beach, more signs going up each day, and a man arrested for trashing signs... we are ruining our own coast.

Keep working on what you want South Walton Florida to be as a community. But keep it friendly. We're all in this together That guy is not part of any solution.
 

FactorFiction

Beach Fanatic
Feb 18, 2016
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Is he behind the editorial?
So many like to blame Gov. Huckabee for the recent beach issues. There is plenty of blame to go around starting way back to when federal land was sold to private individuals/enterprises. Even in very recent history, beaches change hands and projects are approved that have deeded beach. Kind of hard to put everything back in Pandora's box. The BCC can definitely help with the conflict by making and ENFORCING rules on the beach that help prevent "reserving the beach" for people that are not even using the beach for hours on end and sometimes whole days. They can also help by curbing "beach spread" and banning shade structures other than traditional beach umbrellas of 6or 7 feet in diameter.. We could market our beaches as eco-friendly and stop behaviors that don't fit that category. Most of all, we need consistent, proactive, timely ENFORCEMENT of the rules we have. That won't happen without establishing clear and effective rules, hiring a LOT more enforcement, creating effective, prominent signage at every access and actually giving tickets for violations of posted rules.
 

Everytime

Beach Fanatic
Jul 9, 2005
439
113
Shelby County, Alabama
So many like to blame Gov. Huckabee for the recent beach issues. There is plenty of blame to go around starting way back to when federal land was sold to private individuals/enterprises. Even in very recent history, beaches change hands and projects are approved that have deeded beach. Kind of hard to put everything back in Pandora's box. The BCC can definitely help with the conflict by making and ENFORCING rules on the beach that help prevent "reserving the beach" for people that are not even using the beach for hours on end and sometimes whole days. They can also help by curbing "beach spread" and banning shade structures other than traditional beach umbrellas of 6or 7 feet in diameter.. We could market our beaches as eco-friendly and stop behaviors that don't fit that category. Most of all, we need consistent, proactive, timely ENFORCEMENT of the rules we have. That won't happen without establishing clear and effective rules, hiring a LOT more enforcement, creating effective, prominent signage at every access and actually giving tickets for violations of posted rules.

It seems that current BCC legislation enables chair vendor control of much of the limited resource of the public beach accesses, but it also seems that we turn a blind eye to some of the “resort” communities and all of their rules and signs and instead focus on the smaller communities and “mom and pop” individual homeowners. I think we’d make more progress in these conversations if we were consistent in the adjudication of these scenarios.
 
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