Policy on Personal Beach Chairs vs Vendor

[BeachArkie]

Due to unsettled weather forecasts with projected potential for storm surge, Walton County has extended temporary blanket authority to all permitted vendors to access the beach via public access locations for the sole purpose of removing equipment.

The blanket permit will be in effect from 12:00 p.m., August 30, 2016, until 5:00 p.m., Thursday, September 1, 2016.

Any vehicles used must be 4-wheel drive, licensed and insured, and must remain under 5 miles per hour while traversing the public beach.

For more information, contact the Walton County TDC Beach Operations Department at (850) 267-4578.

So for the next 3 days we will have vendors driving on all our beaches in trucks?

What a crock. Hope they don't run over any turtle nests or humans, as I've never seen them drive even close to 5 mph.

Far better solution is to get rid of all on-beach storage.

 

[Jimmy T]

Far better solution is to get rid of all on-beach storage.

The ideal solution would be to eliminate all vending from public
accesses. But I don't see that happening.

So, my compromise wish list for public accesses (not necessarily
in this order):
1. No on-beach storage.

2. Limit beach vending to chairs and umbrellas only.

3. On-demand rental or delivery/pickup to rental house/condo.
In other words, no setting up on the beach without the customer
there to take delivery. That's the way it's done at the state parks.
Or customers can have chairs/umbrellas delivered to their rental
and tote them down to the beach and back themselves, just like
we all do.

4. Reduce vending areas to 25% of the beach.

After the primary election is over, I'll be sending email to our
commissioners about this.

 

[steel1man]

The ideal solution would be to eliminate all vending from public
accesses. But I don't see that happening.

So, my compromise wish list for public accesses (not necessarily
in this order):
1. No on-beach storage.

2. Limit beach vending to chairs and umbrellas only.

3. On-demand rental or delivery/pickup to rental house/condo.
In other words, no setting up on the beach without the customer
there to take delivery. That's the way it's done at the state parks.
Or customers can have chairs/umbrellas delivered to their rental
and tote them down to the beach and back themselves, just like
we all do.

4. Reduce vending areas to 25% of the beach.

After the primary election is over, I'll be sending email to our
commissioners about this.

5. Vendor set back 30' from wet sand like PCB
6. Beach front owners ....vendors also,30' back from wet sand
(If this was the rule and enforced vendor problem will implode) problems solve

 

[LarsAtTheBeach]

The ideal solution would be to eliminate all vending from public
accesses.
But I don't see that happening.

Enough public input and I believe the vendor problem goes away.
There is NO good reason for a beach service at ANY public beach access.

 

[steel1man]

Enough public input and I believe the vendor problem goes away.
There is NO good reason for a beach service at ANY public beach access.

September 6 2016 @ 3:00 pm I think. Make your voice heard.

 

[Born&Bread]

You guys would nothing more than to put these guys out of business with no though on how it will affect them, their family, and their employees. Alot of these vendors have been in business longer than you guys have lived here. The chairs are going to be on the beach regardless if it is a vendor or a store bought chair.

 

[LarsAtTheBeach]

Alot of these vendors have been in business longer than you guys have lived here. .

You do not know this to be correct.
And it's a moot point.

 

[steel1man]

You guys would nothing more than to put these guys out of business with no though on how it will affect them, their family, and their employees. Alot of these vendors have been in business longer than you guys have lived here. The chairs are going to be on the beach regardless if it is a vendor or a store bought chair.

Store bought is Perfect cause they use them. Then remove and go home and some more store bought ones arrive.
The vendors around here mostly have girl friends and truck payments

 

[LarsAtTheBeach]

...The vendors around here mostly have girl friends and truck payments...

Those were the days.

 

[Born&Bread]

Store bought is Perfect cause they use them. Then remove and go home and some more store bought ones arrive.
The vendors around here mostly have girl friends and truck payments

I usually find them in the Tdc trash cans. Do your homework? Are you looking down on people who have truck payments and girlfriends?