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Letters to the editor

Web Posted: 04/03/2006 12:00 AM CDT

San Antonio Express-News

Don't pave over beach
Re: "Developing concern" (Wednesday):

I am a recent transplant to Texas and after reading about the proposed changes to South Padre Island, I would like to ask if any involved parties have visited the beach areas of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala., or the Florida areas of Perdido Key, Pensacola Beach, Fort Walton, Destin and San Destin.

They are "concrete beaches" with little public access and heavy traffic congestion and are inaccessible to the locals. The revenue is great, but the loss of resident access is terrible. After the hurricanes that hit the area, the loss of revenue and income should also be thought of.

Right now, I don't live in an area that has close access to the beaches, but I would like to know I will have the ability to visit and walk the beach and not the "concrete beaches" that I left.

Marlene Michaels,
New Braunfels

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Letters to the Editor: 04.03.06

April 3, 2006

Beach vote now

Only in America: The City Council votes to ban driving on 7,200 feet of public beach to satisfy a developer or else he won't build his resort. Then they have the jewels to pass an ordinance that in order to have similar closings of public access beach for future developers it has to put to a vote by who owns the land in question, the public. Why not put the current beach closings to a public vote now?

This smells like what Joseph Kennedy did around the turn of the century. He manipulated stock with insider information, called green sheeting, made millions of dollars for his family and a few friends, then had laws passed to make it illegal to do the same thing he had just done.

Sound familiar? I smell rotting fish coming from the City Council chamber. I guess they think we the voters are stupid; maybe we are.

Joshua E. Gates

(Round Rock)

Where's vendors?

Being an avid beach person my whole life, I think it should boil down to this: Will I be able to rent a surfboard, buy an ice-cream, and seek some shade when at the beach? If the answer is yes, then from whom do I get these services? Will vendors be allowed in vehicles on the beach or will the resort owner(s) be the only game in town?

If my memory serves me, which it does, we could not have a "carnival atmosphere" on the T-heads because developer Leon Loeb wanted to build "South Wharf" and Landry's wanted a no-compete clause. Are we closing the beach to more than vehicular traffic and creating a "no-compete" zone?

Bourke Behrend Caller.com

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Around the Area: 04.04.06

April 4, 2006


City notified group plans to petition about beach

The Beach Access Coalition on Monday took the first official step toward petitioning against two beach-related ordinances recently passed by the City Council. The group filed notices of intent to petition on the ordinance that closed 7,200 feet of Padre Island Beach to traffic and a portion of the ordinance that called for a charter amendment election. The coalition wants the charter amendment changed to say the amendment would go into effect regardless, rather than only if the original 7,200 feet is closed, as it presently says.

The notice of intent requires the City Council be given a chance to reconsider their actions. If, at their next meeting on April 11, they do not reconsider, the coalition can begin collecting signatures on petitions.

Brandi Dean
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