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A beach access free-for-all
Posted by the Asbury Park
Press on 10/11/06
BY ERIK LARSEN
AND TRISTAN J. SCHWEIGER
STAFF WRITERS
There was a time when
Monmouth and Ocean counties were so sparsely populated, there was plenty of
beach for everyone.
"Anyone could drive up in their car, right onto the
beach, and there wasn't someone to stop them," said Carter H.
Strickland Jr., acting director of the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic in Newark.
"The shore is not necessarily as wild as it once was. Ocean County
is the fastest growing county in the New
York metropolitan area," Strickland said.
"The Shore is one of the greatest assets of New Jersey, and it's key to a
multibillion dollar tourist industry. It's important to keep this resource
open to everyone."
Strickland said the state Attorney General's lawsuit filed
last month in Superior Court in Freehold against Sea Bright and nine
private beach clubs over proper public access to the ocean underscores the
impact of suburban development along the Jersey Shore.
Beachgoers who once tolerated being shooed away from the exclusive
oceanfront clubs now want the state to enforce rights to the ocean that go
back to colonial times.
"Their land deeds have always included the public trust
agreement," Strickland said.
The public trust doctrine, which formally was recognized in New Jersey by the
state Supreme Court in 1821, requires that every member of the public has a
right to the ocean and an acceptable buffer zone usually interpreted as 15
feet of beach from the high-tide water line.
"If you don't have rigorous enforcement of public trust .
. . exclusivity creeps in," Strickland said.
The state's suit contends that the private beach clubs and the
borough benefited from a $29 million beach replenishment project that began
more than a decade ago and was paid for with public money, and that
everyone — not just club members — should have unrestricted
access to those shores.
And up and down the Shore, it's not just the private clubs
that are denying the public access to the beach. Many real estate
developers have long advertised that oceanfront homes have exclusive beach
rights, which is just not legally possible. Therefore those homeowners
erroneously are led to believe they have their own private beach,
Strickland said.
In Long Beach Township, public access has been a topic of
debate in the running controversy over the beach replenishment project
planned for most of Long
Beach Island.
The state Department of Environmental Protection has asked for
public access points every quarter-mile as a condition of the project,
which is an issue in the northern parts of town where access currently is
limited. Mayor DiAnne Gove, meanwhile, has argued every half-mile would be
enough.
"I'm standing on that," Gove said Tuesday.
Gove said Sea Bright's situation is different, because Long Beach Township has no private clubs.
Strickland said the Atlantis Beach Club court decision in Cape May County no doubt motivated the state
to act in the Sea Bright matter. In that case, the state Supreme Court
ruled that the club was infringing on the public's right to the oceanfront.
For its part, the Attorney General's Office declined to
comment on why it chose to go after Sea Bright, and why now.
"No change is anticipated from the state end," said
Lee Moore, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office. "In terms of
any response, I'm not aware of any. Under the new attorney general, the
state's action will continue."
Sea Bright officials referred all questions about the case to
Borough Attorney Scott Arnette, who has not been available for the past
several days, according to his office.
"The state has some merit to their suit," said
Andrew Mencinsky, executive director of the Surfers' Environmental Alliance
and a former Sea Bright councilman. "I think the state is completely
wrong on some parts of its suit. But I feel that the state is correct in
that it (Sea Bright) did not pay for its second beach replenishment."
Mencinsky said most of the private clubs in Sea Bright provide
a valuable service to the community and some allow nonmember beachgoers
onto the beach for a standard beach-badge fee.
"We were kind of aware that the state was taking a closer
look at beach access issues up and down the coastline since the Atlantis
situation," said Ralph Coscia, president of Citizens' Right to Access
Beaches.
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Tip #19
Home Buying Tip, Online Searching:
Searching online is a very effective way to look for real estate in New Jersey, or
anywhere for that matter. Good
websites allow you to search through multiple MLS’s so you can
cover a wide range. For example
here you can Search for
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After you find the house you are
interested in you can inquiry with the real estate agency to find out more
information or to arrange an appointment to view the house.
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Tip #18
Home Selling Tip, Targeting Out Of State:
When you sell your home you sometimes have to put yourself in the
potential buyers’ shoes. In New Jersey many home buyers are from the
surrounding area, like New York or Pennsylvania.
Knowing this can allow your agent to
market your house more effectively.
If he/she will advertise in a New York publication they can describe
the proximity to NY. This allows
your potential Buyer Base to expand.
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