Posted on 09/14/2015 9:49:02 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
“Just because you buy the front house, doesn’t mean you own the beach,” says Tony Salaza. “The beach is for everybody.”
He gestures towards a sweep of architect-designed houses to his left.
Over the past few years, many of Malibu’s 13,000 residents have been watching with alarm as public access rights to the 27-mile coastline have come under threat.
Many celebrities and multimillionaires own sprawling Malibu homes overlooking the Pacific, including actors Robert Redford and Angelina Jolie, the rapper Dr Dre, the director Rob Reiner and media mogul David Geffen. In an effort to protect their privacy, some homeowners have now taken matters into their own hands by employing security guards to patrol the sands in front of their houses.
Twice in the past few weeks, members of the public have been asked to leave Malibu’s Escondido Beach by a uniformed security guard who wrongly claimed they were on private property and threatened them with a fine for trespassing.
That area is treated as a private riviera … the most egregious example of privatisation of public land in Los Angeles.
Of late wealthy homeowners have taken to erecting their own “No trespassing” signs and putting out traffic cones to discourage people from parking their cars. The hiring of private security guards is the newest skirmish in a long-running battle.
Noaki Schwartz of the California Coastal Commission, tested the waters herself with her six-year-old daughter and a friend. Within minutes of sitting on the sand, says Schwartz, a uniformed guard with a clipboard walked over.
“He was polite but pretty firm and said I was trespassing and needed to leave and if I didn’t leave, I would be fined $1,500 and probably get a citation for trespassing.”
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LOL !
Posting to threads from a position of ignorance is no way to go through life.
Crowded beaches are the only valid reason to restrict beach driving below the dune line.
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.
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.
Texas does allow driving on the beach, which IMHO is not such a good thing.
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 : (
Redford now looks like an aged lesbian.
As you walk north, you have sharks to the left of you and billionaires to the right of you.
Which have sharper teeth?
Which are more motivated to do you harm?
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.
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.
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.
And hating the rich is stupid. sorry that you were not a success but do you really have to be jealous?
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.
Sounds like something a lefty baiter would post.
Yeah sure. The left hates the rich just like you do.
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