Are you talking about these new friends? Regardless of private property rights or public customary use of property the Walton Commissioners have the civic duty and responsibility to all Walton citizens to police and enforce bad behavior on the beach. If a proposed “compromise” for BFO’s is to give up their Constitutionally protected property rights they have had since 1776 and have today for beach behavior enforcement the inept Walton Commissioners’ already have a civil duty to do; good try FBFA, BFOs are smarter than that.
CU is only about legal property rights. Any thing else is politics; so far decades of bad politics and the Walton commissioners' shifting the burden to BFOs for their failure to manage supply & demand and growth. I think there is enough demand if people choose less crowded public beaches in neighboring counties. Just look at the bed taxes collected. Up 17.8%. By the way Okaloosa and Bay counties along with 65, other Florida counties do not have a public customary use of private property ordinance.
Report: Walton County top-performing local economy in Florida. Apr 5, 2019
Besides police can’t enforce respect, consideration, and decency for others. Like beach spreading and beach cities (or antisocial media campaigns). Although private property owners can if the Sheriff would do his duty and enforce the laws as written and stop making up not legal property boundaries’ like the “wet sand”.
Other states like NJ have passed ordinances for Beach Spreading. A symptom of “Tragedy of the [Beach] Commons”.
I just liked this beach photo.