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The access issue has to be just about the most pressing problem to the large majority of us given the fact that most of us do not own boats. Public policy should be implemented that coincides with the fishing and fowling and walking below the mean high or low tide marks. But to that end all legal "rights of way" should be posted and as my folks had to do in Eastham years ago, these rights of ways should be kept clear by the land owners on either side. It should be made illegal to block them off in any way shape or form. This public policy should also include exactly what is a public and/or private way. Their are many ambiguities in this regard. Many landowners believe that simply because they post no parking signs and private property signs they have the right to tell anyone to leave an area, such as the nut at the end of a certain road in Bourne. The truth is that in every municipality only the town fathers can give legal approval to any signage or the making of a public way into a private way. What we all have to remember is the question, "would the town fathers grant a person/s roadways to become private," which means in theory that the residents who now live on "private ways" receive less services making them eligible for rebates on the taxes they pay to the municipalities in which they live. I don't think that is going to happen anytime, anywhere in this day and age. I am not advocating tresspassing by anyone, but these ideas are all part of what the gentleman who ask for advice on his paper requested. Good luck and email me privately and I will respond.



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