Property Rights. Beach Access. Repercussions in Florida.

In response to changes in beach access in Walton County Florida, a letter to the editor by G. Brint Ryan offers:

• “allow public beachgoers to trespass on real estate”
• “The county’s claims that they can simply identify a beach and deem it suitable for public use without fair compensation for the actual property owners are two-faced and un-American.”
• “County officials are double dipping on the use of beachfront property at the expense of the people who have invested in their county”

Raises 4 Specific problems by designating privat eland pulic beach accesSL

• ignores fundamental property rights
•  deprives homeowners of privacy
• lowers the value of their homes
• potentially puts their homes in harms’ way

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