From what I understand there has been a formal complaint filed against the chair company at Andante for not removing those chairs at the end of the business day. Documentation and photo's were sent to our county. That is the way our Beach Ordinance reads. At least it did but it has been modified over the years but rarely enforced. However, this year they made a good effort to enforce it but they had only one person covering our entire beach! The "chair guy" at Andante enforces those private property issues and he says that there is no such rule about leaving chairs out after dark. He knows better but thinks he is above the law and the beach ordinance. Just remember, that the recent ruling was for Okaloosa county and not Walton county. I walk by Andante several times a week all year round and I doubt very much that things will change there. This will certainly open up Pandora's Box with the trash, debris, beach toys, tents, chairs and set ups the public leaves behind on the beach that does have a negative impact on turtle nesting and hatching. I do agree with the ruling but it also has a flip side. We used to live on the beach and left because we had absolutely no privacy but kept a turtle friendly beach which was our priority. And yes, we did throw away stuff left behind and our sign at our boardwalk stated that. I even talked to one guy who ate his lunch on our beach daily (our deed read that we owned the beach down to the Gulf) and we had no problem with others enjoying the beach or even eating there but we did have a problem with the bags, foil and half finished food this guy left behind every day. Know what he said when I approached him nicely? "I don't give a f___, I'm on vacation." I told him I didn't give a f___ either and would call the sheriff because he was littering the beach and that was against the law. He just moved over to the next condo. and littered there daily!!! That is why people who live on the beach want their beach private and I can understand that. We never wanted it that way. We ONLY wanted people to leave it the way they found it but that doesn't happen. If our county would enforce the beach ordinance we wouldn't have these problems. And I mean enforce it every year and year round especially with those loose dogs that run unsupervised every afternoon and many without permits. Their owners don't clean up either. There is always another side to the story.