The government is refusing to restore eroded beaches in coastal Florida counties unless homeowners agree to one condition: public access.

This is hilarious. The U.S. Corps of Engineers has dangled a $42 million carrot to replenish sand on beaches in front of expensive houses but the homeowners don’t want it at the expense of having to create public access easements (because federal dollars can only go towards improving public, not private, beaches). This town is going to get annihilated by the next big storm because these little tyrants want to keep their beaches private.

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    Good riddance to all those giant homes parked on the coast. Let those avaricious dentists and real estate scam artists bleed from their check books for once instead of us. Do you all know how many I see with Trump signs on the front side? Nearly all of them. From Ormond Beach to St. Augustine, it’s nonstop Trump signs along the coast. I never saw it with Mitt Romney or McCain, but as soon as they really started to crank up the immigrant scapegoating to 11, the signs all came out.

    • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Imagine being able to take a boat up and down the coast and seeing nature instead of a wall of mcmansions and private property signs.

      Eminent domain everything within 1000’ of high tide

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        21 days ago

        It’s beautiful country and I wish it belonged to everyone that way. Sometimes I wish I could see it 100, 200 years ago to see what we’ve lost. Right now it’s being further destroyed by a bunch of rich retirees and fail chuds from the north who have no concept of environmental stewardship.

    • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Trump will nuke the hurricane to save the Florida boaters, but it just makes a tsunami and the hurricane becomes a radioactive category 7