by Rob Young | Dec 8, 2022 | All stories, Beach Management, Coastal News, North Carolina Coastal News, Opinion, Policy
Let’s be clear, this is largely an effort to save the beach houses, not the beaches. SLR doesn’t threaten the existence of most beaches, it just moves them. Certainly, there are portions of the OBX where the barrier island is very narrow and one could...
by Rob Young | Nov 15, 2022 | All stories, Beach Management, Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Policy
Someone explain to us why we spend millions of dollars to build a wide, renourished beach, then we mechanically clean that beach all the way up to the vegetation line, never allowing the natural vegetation to expand out onto the berm. This happens all over Florida, in...
by Rob Young | Nov 7, 2022 | All stories, Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, Ian, 2022
The gentrification begins in southwest Florida. Realtors and developers are doing fine. Wall Street Journal story about about booming post-Ian real estate market at this...
by Rob Young | Nov 7, 2022 | All stories, Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, National Coastal News, New Jersey Coastal News, Places, Sandy, 2012
During the last 10 years, the federal government has poured billions onto the Jersey Shore. Developers and the wealthy have reaped the profits, while the middle class has been priced out completely. The federal government continues to fund beach nourishment to protect...
by Rob Young | Nov 7, 2022 | All stories, Coastal News, Events in the News, Florida Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, Ian, 2022, Michael, 2022, Places, Policy
Great piece in the Miami Herald. I could highlight so many important points. I’ll start with the Mexico Beach fail: “Two years later, under a mountain of complaints from residents who resented the higher building costs that come with elevating homes and...
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