Coastal Woes? Move Inland!
So what is contridictory there?
Preserving it for what and from what? Assume you leave the pristine seashore areas designated and untouched. Eventually development will crowd right up to its very borders and you will have a small, artificial area surrounded by intense development. Think Yellowstone. Think what the Parkway will be like in 20 years. In actual fact, you will have preserved nothing. The hordes of tourists will tromp up and down the beaches, carting off sand, shells, and flora, just as they have worn pathways through the forests of Linville and the gorges of Yellowstone. Just the act of curtaining off the area makes it more desirable and creates demand for it.
The oxymoron occurs because eventually the borders of the National Seashore will be so densely developed, no one will have accommodations within miles of it and soon your children and grandchildren will lose interest altogether in fighting the hassle of getting there. You have preserved nothing for no one.
Are you pro-insurance premium hikes?
For the people who live on the coast? Absolutely. If you want to play, you gotta pay.
Do you enjoy paying for someone else's multi-million dollar vacation house that's floating in the ocean?
Absolutely not and I never implied it. But the solution to that is not to impose government sanctions on development. The solution to that is simply for the government to close its purse. Given the nature of prevailing conditions on the outer banks, the best way I can think of to limit growth is for the government to stop subsidizing it. Dissolve FEMA and change state laws. If you live on the coast and a hurricane or a flood wipes you out, tough bananas. Move inland. I'll bet you real money that the poor, benighted residents of Hatteras Village would burst a blood vessel if you suggested they would be on their own after the next hurricane or tropical storm left them underwater.
And you're still dodging the question. You still haven't offered up how you want to go about limiting development and solving the problem.
Preserving it for what and from what? Assume you leave the pristine seashore areas designated and untouched. Eventually development will crowd right up to its very borders and you will have a small, artificial area surrounded by intense development. Think Yellowstone. Think what the Parkway will be like in 20 years. In actual fact, you will have preserved nothing. The hordes of tourists will tromp up and down the beaches, carting off sand, shells, and flora, just as they have worn pathways through the forests of Linville and the gorges of Yellowstone. Just the act of curtaining off the area makes it more desirable and creates demand for it.
The oxymoron occurs because eventually the borders of the National Seashore will be so densely developed, no one will have accommodations within miles of it and soon your children and grandchildren will lose interest altogether in fighting the hassle of getting there. You have preserved nothing for no one.
Are you pro-insurance premium hikes?
For the people who live on the coast? Absolutely. If you want to play, you gotta pay.
Do you enjoy paying for someone else's multi-million dollar vacation house that's floating in the ocean?
Absolutely not and I never implied it. But the solution to that is not to impose government sanctions on development. The solution to that is simply for the government to close its purse. Given the nature of prevailing conditions on the outer banks, the best way I can think of to limit growth is for the government to stop subsidizing it. Dissolve FEMA and change state laws. If you live on the coast and a hurricane or a flood wipes you out, tough bananas. Move inland. I'll bet you real money that the poor, benighted residents of Hatteras Village would burst a blood vessel if you suggested they would be on their own after the next hurricane or tropical storm left them underwater.
And you're still dodging the question. You still haven't offered up how you want to go about limiting development and solving the problem.
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