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Dicky's LTTE has so many good points to choose from that it's difficult to expound on just one, so I'll let him choose what he considers the main problem - stopping the avalanche of beach closures for private development purposes. This is an apt metaphor because, like real avalanches, no one can stop them, only prevent them from starting. The Corpus Christi City Council discovered that not only was it legally unable to prevent future councils from approving more beach closures, it couldn't even avoid reneging on its own promises to the citizens and the GLO. Ultimately, the decision to prevent an avalanche must rest not in the hands of a powerful few so myopic they see only how to profit from it, but in the hands of all those citizens who also clearly see their freedoms being swept away in the calamity.
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Letters to the Editor: 05.21.06
May 21, 2006

Just baloney

A well-financed special interest group has emerged to battle the grass roots organization Beach Access Coalition over the proposed closing of over a local stretch of beach.

The group, "It's About Time, Corpus Christi," keeps trotting out the tired and phony old canard about "We just want a pedestrian beach."

That's a bunch of baloney! There are already a number of beaches where motor vehicles are either prohibited or restricted in where they can go.

Another comment is "We are not trying to close the beach." That's also a bunch of baloney. The developer and the beachgoers know that most of that beach will be basically inaccessible to most, especially the disabled and those with families, dogs, barbecue pits, fishing, surfing gear and all the other stuff people take to the beach.

Parking lots are not the answer for environmental, convenience and public safety reasons. Trams won't do it either.

But the main problem is this: Give this developer what he wants and you will start an avalanche of others lining up to get their very own private beaches.

This comes down to a fight between those who want to preserve the long-practiced tradition of going to the beach in their vehicles and having lots of room to go where you want and those who look at a beach and see nothing but dollar signs.

Dicky Neely
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The Trash Heap Has Spoken!
NNYYAAAHH!!!

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Well said Mr Neely
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