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I think if you grant a permit to build the house on the waterfront , you should also grant a permit to build a wall if the structure gets threatened.
i would be totally in favor of no building private property within some distance of the waterfront.
i always thought that in this time of supposed enlightenment about environmental issues and access , that all waterfront property should eventually become part of a public land bank. No more building on the aterfront and any house that gets sold would have to be sold to the state for fair market value. A property could be handed down within a family for zero dollars but if any money is to change change hands , the property must be sold to the state. In 200 years , there would be a belt of publicly owned land along all the shorelines with free access to all people.
i think RI made some huge mistakes in the last 10 years not buying and turning into state parks the property at rocky point and quonset point. those where once in a lifetime oppurtunities that they let slip by.
its a nice dream. I think maybe in the year 3007 , people might actually be enlightened and something like this could happen.
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