State Law in California is such that No One can own the beach. You can have a house on the beach but you have a clearly marked property line and it is always set back from the beach. Every inch of shoreline is public, much of it national park or preserve. Any one can lay down a towel on the beach and hang out anywhere they want. Granted, California has been this way for decades, I think maybe always, so people who built homes built them with this in mind. I get that many homeowners in Michigan live close to the beach, but my reaction to this argument is simply that it is crazy to think that you should have the right to own a piece of the great lakes. Hell your neighbors, who also own beach front property, are probably the ones walking their dogs along the beach. Are they supposed to just walk in circles on their own little slice of beach? Are the people who paid to live in the neighborhood supposed to drive to some public beach a mile or two away when they LIVE right next to the lake, just because they don’t have a beach front plot? Everything in life has an upside and a downside. Beachfront property owners, Upside: You literally live on the beach. Downside: other people are going to use that beach too. That’s just reality. I Understand the issues of people going too far and entering your property, but everyone has issues like that; People walk on your front lawn, people leave there dog poop on the ground in every neighborhood, that has nothing to do with beach access, that’s just jerks who exist everywhere. I don’t know, I just think it’s silly to believe that anyone has the right to own the beach, isn’t it enough that you get to wake up to it every morning and use it whenever you want?
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