Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office "descended" on the town, as some locals put it, and began forcing developers to build farther back from the sea. Previously, buildings had been allowed as close as 200 ft. from the water. Now construction can take place only up to the line where natural vegetation meets the beach. This strict enforcement of the state's open beaches law has led to heated disputes over where the nebulous vegetation line actually lies. Says Lilljedahl: "It's been a state of chaos...
...Marston walks along the beach, he points out a sea wall, once well back from the water, now torn apart by the waves. His office tries to work out accommodations with builders who have encroached on the beach or who find the receding beach threatening their structures. "We're not into tearing down expensive buildings," says Marston. "We try to negotiate equitable arrangements. In two instances where we felt developers were building too close to the sea and encroaching on public beach, we had them buy adjoining lots and donate them for public use, rather than forcing them...
...adversary of the state's protective urge does not find these accommodations reasonable. "It's amazing people developed this great fear for our beaches only last year, when for 20 years no one has been denied the use of a beach or had his condominium washed away," says Paul Cunningham, 36, a nattily dressed lawyer for the town's biggest developments. He is also South Padre city attorney and a part owner of the luxurious Hilton condominiums, which have sold out even before completion of construction. "There's not a lot of proof about erosion. Some...
...from Florida a few years ago when he became convinced that the island was another Gold Coast waiting to be built. He seems right at home among his construction workers, personally smoothing the concrete foundation of his newest condominium project. This development is out of the area of current beach erosion, but another one he built, a mile farther north, is in an area where there have been indications of erosion. Hanmore does not believe it: "Those condominiums have been up for two years, and I haven't seen any sign of the beach disappearing...
DIED. Carroll Rosenbloom, 72, flamboyant owner of the Los Angeles Rams professional football team; by drowning; in the surf off Golden Beach, Fla. Rosenbloom parlayed a small Virginia denim factory into a $175 million-a-year business before buying a share of football's Baltimore Colts in 1953. He saw the Colts win four league championships and the 1971 Super Bowl, in 1972 swapped them for the Rams, who won six consecutive division titles but never a Super Bowl. Gruff and outspoken, he tangled often with league officials, local politicians and coaches but was scrupulously fair to his players...