The short-sightedness and laziness of the whole 'solution' to the overcrowding is just really bugging me. Today, I went biking in Rosemary and it occurred to me that when the new condos on the north side of the street are finished, the fractional ownership club gets going, and the Hotel Samba is opened the number of people turned away from the W. Water Street access is going to be nothing. This security patrol is just a Band-Aid on the problem.
Riding through Rosemary, I really felt sorry for this poor Jim Bagby guy. As the town manager he must be getting pressure from all sides to fix the overcrowding issue, meanwhile he's got to keep throwing up more and more development, and he's just one person. One person can't begin to fix this problem. So yes, security guards and scapegoating Seacrest Beach dwellers may be really silly and abhorrent to the idea of New Urbanism, but how else could he make it seem like he was being responsive? It's a shame that the RB homeowners don't realize this is a problem they simply can't delegate away.
Of course, for all the outrage on this board, how many of us are really actively trying to challenge the unchecked development, the ridiculous density, or the privatization of the beaches?