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 | Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Ian, 2022, Nicole, 2022, Policy
This is going to get interesting: “By some estimates, there are more than 1.5 million residential condominium units in Florida, and many of them are aging. In June 2021,the Champlain Towers South, a residential high rise in Surfside, Fla., collapsed and left 98 dead....
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 Bill Graham | Nov 11, 2022 | Coastal News, Florida Coastal News, Hurricanes and storms, National Coastal News, Nicole, 2022, Opinion, Policy
We’ve been saying this for...
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...
by Katie Peek | Jul 1, 2019 | All stories, Coastal News, North Carolina Coastal News, Policy
This is the first of several case studies examining the feasibility & economics of targeted acquisition strategies in oceanfront, resort communities. For North Topsail Beach, the costs ($54.8 million with inflation) & benefits ($57.6 million) represent a...
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