Gulf Shore Manor Fighting Beach Access

[leeboy]

They were after a lot more, but what they got were eight parcels in the subdivision, including three that used to be considered neighborhood beach access property and others that were undeveloped platted roads.

Thank you for this! I'm a little slow. As you know, most of us don't follow closley and really appreciate the excellent reporting.

Results like these are what makes people wary of developers and government. Always seems like back room deals are being made and the county has to back down when threatened. Settle or get killed.

So we lost beach access, again.

So sad to see all this fighting over public beach access. Our beaches were free not so long ago. The price it seems for flying under the radar so long with no real zoning, laws, and regulation. "Good while it lasted" but now the vultures have landed and are picking apart our sandy carcass.

 

[miznotebook]

Thank you for this! I'm a little slow. As you know, most of us don't follow closley and really appreciate the excellent reporting.

Results like these are what makes people wary of developers and government. Always seems like back room deals are being made and the county has to back down when threatened. Settle or get killed.

So we lost beach access, again.

So sad to see all this fighting over public beach access. Our beaches were free not so long ago. The price it seems for flying under the radar so long with no real zoning, laws, and regulation. "Good while it lasted" but now the vultures have landed and are picking apart our sandy carcass.

Lots of moving parts, for sure. There are a few bright spots for our carcass, though. Walton County has clear ownership of the Santa Clara Regional Beach Access property and the San Juan Neighborhood Beach Access property and will be able to continue to operate those accesses for the public. Also the county has permanent easements across the Pelayo and Barcelona Avenue beach access points, even though the new property owners are expected to build a home or homes there. So the public will always be able to cross to the beach there. There is expected to be a home built at the Montigo beach access point also, and Walton County did not get an easement there. However, the settlement gives property owners in the subdivision an easement to cross to the beach and use of the beach there and south of the other four beach access points in the subdivision.

 

[Beach days]

The lawyers went to his family and bought her rights. Then they went and had all land appraised.including Santa Clara beach parking and parking across the street. (The state gives county money for each spot each year).the county received the land from the developer who was doing houses at south San Juan. The where allowed to build more density in exchange for giving the county the land to build beach parking at Santa Clara.they also didn’t own it . The county took it with no title work , it was for gulf shores manor. The county at one point gave up all rights to gulf shore manor beaches. The lawyer Sydney Knowles new about the last suit coming as when I ask Tony Anderson in 2018 about some parking on south side his response to me was by legal they told him to not say anything. So what happened in a nut shell the county took the private roads in gulf shore manor over given by the new lawyers and beach parking and the county gave up on challenging them on onset ship. They wanted somewhere around 30 million for there rights. The lawyer Sydney Knowles in her deposition said she didn’t have any prior knowledge of a pending lawsuit but clearly she did because she talked to me and others about it. She also told me she spent her summers at the developers houses in the summers when she was young. so they got to keep what they built on for free the lawyers got the land and we got to keep use of our beach and they made it public. The law suit the county did would not even let our rights as owners to be apart of law suit.