"Private Beach" sign at Andante Condos

[Kurt]

We are a Gulf front owner in the Andante/Magnolia location. We have owned our property for many, many years...we watched in agony the construction of too many houses being built across 30-A...i,e, Magnolia. Our deed reads that we own to the mean high tide (wet sand). We have every right to our area in front of our house...as Andante owners do their 280 feet. Those across the street need to understand what gulf front owners are legally entitled to. AND until Walton County comes up with a solution to this...there will continue to be the issue. When you buy property across 30-A you need to understand that you DO NOT have a private beach that goes with the property....Gulf Front owners DO.

There are many properties north of Scenic 30A that do include private beach access. There are others that are north of public beach access. I hope you appreciate there is a lot of confusion on the issue, especially from visitors to our area. It sounds like you own property in a contentious area and you are going to be faced with a lot of people who don't understand, and may not care about where your property begins and ends.

The issue is far from settled and I plead with everyone to be reasonable and patient. Let's do our best to be good neighbors.

 

[Em]

One thing is for sure, if only beach-front owners could use the beach, beach-front owners would have no one to build and maintain their homes, set up beach chairs, cook at restaurants, clean the homes, open shops, work at golf courses, etc.

Historically, people have used the beaches of Florida without objection for many years. The Florida State Supreme Court has previously ruled in favor of beach goers over the deed holders, stating that the beaches were the lifeblood of Florida.

Beachgoers should respect the beach, remove their junk and trash daily, and not interfere with others' peaceful enjoyment, etc. If I owned Gulf-front, I'd be a little more than upset if people trashed my backyard.

 

[Andy A]

Every year we have this issue arise and, on its face, it is totally stupid and unneeded. The beach is for everyone's use and all beachfront owners should ask is that those using it should pick up after themselves and be respectful of the environment and property.
I would love to see the Walton County Commission issue a ban on ALL signage of any kind, except for that involving safely, on our beaches. It would seem to me that if we can govern signage on 98, 30A and the Timpoochee Trail, we should certainly be able to do so on the beaches. The signs are an abomination and totally without merit. Contact your County Commissioners and request they do something to maintain the ambiance and beauty of our beaches by requiring that the "private property" signs be removed.

 

[Zebraspots]

Apparently some people didn't learn the basics in kindergarten.

Share toys, pick up after yourself, play nice, and don't run with scissors.

 

[Em]

Signs on the beach are likely already covered by laws since they can interfere with turtle nesting.

I believe you might also have a case against signs being erected on property that may not be your own. Without the daily survey for those properties extending to the MHWM, how would one be sure where the property boundaries begin and end?

 

[MTB]

Well said Murray.