Andy, we are not talking about your wall, or walls that were built as described above. We are talking about walls built on public beaches, some as far out as 80ft onto public beaches, much further than they needed to be. The "proper engineering and surveys" were in error, supposedly.
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But that old Seagrove plat never even deeded the entire bluff to the beachfront property owners, let alone the beach, and anyone who tells you they didn't know that probably has some swamp land in South Florida to sell you. And most of them were built by a sitting county commissioner's business. I'm not saying they should be torn down, or even that they never should have been built - that is a topic for another discussion - but I am saying they should have been sited as far landward as possible and since the beaches there are public, all this business about leases should have been settled before they were built. Before everyone and his brother started claiming "ownership' of the beach and the right to exclude people from the beach, it didn't matter so much. As far as I am concerned, every inch of public beach now matters.