Malibu's celeb homeowners try to block public beach use

The Guardian ^ | 9/13/2015 | - Elizabeth Day

[snooter55]

LOL !

[Rebelbase]

Posting to threads from a position of ignorance is no way to go through life.

[Rebelbase]

Crowded beaches are the only valid reason to restrict beach driving below the dune line.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I’m very familiar with the area, too, having been at Zuma for triathlon training just two days ago. One can enter the Broad Beach area simply by walking along the beach. From the last, westernmost parking lot at Zuma to where Broad Beach begins is no more than a couple hundred yards of sand.

[Rockpile]

I guess 31430 has the fence along his property line.

Do Redford and the rest pay property taxes all the way down to the water line?

The house owners in that pic are lucky to never have the risk of bad storms.

[SaraJohnson]

Texas does allow driving on the beach, which IMHO is not such a good thing.

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I love that about Texas. Still driving on the beach. : )

When I was small and we lived in Corpus Christy there was Padre Island, a pretty deserted place where you could drive down on the beach and camp. We all had campers. We did that with many Navy families and the kids had a blast. The parents ate sand and put up with all the mess for us to have fun. We would hunt for sand crabs at night with bb guns. No walking on the dunes which messed up our hunting grounds. Wiffle ball! Playing on rafts! Big kids took care of little kids. Sand castles! S’mores! Sunburn : (

[Rockpile]

Redford now looks like an aged lesbian.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Here's a good picture of the boundary between Broad Beach and Zuma. Where the houses start is Broad Beach. The bottom half of the pic is Zuma

[samtheman]

As you walk north, you have sharks to the left of you and billionaires to the right of you.

[MarvinStinson]

Which have sharper teeth?

[samtheman]

Which are more motivated to do you harm?

[MarvinStinson]

I’ve never met a billionaire as far as I know.

I talked to one on the phone once.

It was a very one sided conversation.

[moehoward]

"One can enter the Broad Beach area simply by walking along the beach."

Of course. How many are willing to schlep 200 yards in the sand so they can spend the day at the beach in front of someones house. That's what we are talking about. Not some local who lives a few blocks away wanting to get his jog on.

[Oatka]

My sister owns a beach house on Pawley’s Island - a sand spit off the coast of South Carolina.

Jack Nicholson rented a house on the mainland, then complained to the authorities that “those shacks out there are blocking my view of the ocean and should be torn down.”

Those “shacks” sell for $1-mil on up.

[moehoward]

Some of them have fallen into the water during bad storms. 31430 looks pretty close to the 25 foot rule. But as you can see, that rule does not always apply. There are places where you'd need to crawl under peoples houses. Where there beeches are wider you see signs like this.

[napscoordinator]

And hating the rich is stupid. sorry that you were not a success but do you really have to be jealous?

[Rebelbase]

Bless your heart.

Wealth is irrelevant. The issue is PUBLIC rights, which in this case you stated should be modified through negotiation.

Really? You wish to take rights away from the public for the benefit of a few? That reeks of communism.

[MarvinStinson]

Jack Nicholson rented a house on the mainland, then complained to the authorities

[MarvinStinson]

Sounds like something a lefty baiter would post.

[napscoordinator]

Yeah sure. The left hates the rich just like you do.