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Tankster's avatar

I’ve said before, your home is being gentrified. I often wonder when I can move part time and keep my left turn signal on four months at a time. Pave paradise put up a parking lot.

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Wes Flynn's avatar

Absolutely. I just want to know who these gents are, and why and how there are so many of them ... it's baffling. Pave paradise and put up a parking lot, indeed ... who knew that song would end up turning into an instruction manual, rather than a dire warning. Wild world.

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Green Leap Forward's avatar

Look up the saga of Vinod Khosla and Martin’s Beach.

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Wes Flynn's avatar

Interesting -- Eminent domain with a twist. Sounds a little like a land tourniquet to me, but where the powers that be overlooked the importance of getting an easement established. This is why we can't have nice things and the commons is a perpetual, tragic crime scene. If he needed a permit to close the gate to his property, it makes me wonder why Boulder County, CO, doesn't need a permit to close its owners off their land.

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Green Leap Forward's avatar

There are few exceptions, mainly military ownership, but all beachland in California is public. It's a unique quirk of the state.

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