Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, Your Mission Valley Realtor — California beaches are free!
You have access to any of California Beaches. Even those in the most exclusive areas. Somewhere along those beaches, there is an access trail. Enjoy our beautiful California Beaches; I must go soon.
Have you noticed that people come from all over the world to SoCal? I live here, and 1/2 hour to the beach seems like such a trek!
California beaches are free!
Contrary to some efforts by the extraordinarily rich and famous, the California Coastal Act of 1976 ensures that California's beaches remain accessible to the public. FREE!
Many of the rich and famous, especially in areas such as Malibu just north of Los Angeles, as well as La Jolla, Encinitas, Del Mar, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, and other exclusive enclaves here in San Diego County, don't like the the half-naked public walking along — and even playing in! — the sand in front of their ocean view.
Even where there are many mansions along the shore, you will find public access easements between some of the houses, which also means that there is public parking on the streets! Gasp!
Some mansion owners have resorted to posting fake "No Parking" signs by the public beach access points and "Private Beach" signs on the beach below.
Perhaps the most famous contest between the public's right to beach access and that of a rich and famous owner was four years ago when David Geffen finally lost his battle. He had contested public access in front of his Malibu beach compound by expressing concerns about privacy, traffic, and — get this! — "the potential environmental harm sunbathers would cause."
Public access pathways to the beaches are managed by various city, county, and state entitites, as well as non-profit agencies charged with keeping the pathways clean, open, and FREE. Recently, again in Malibu — where only the richest of the rich and the most famous of the famous live — Lisette Ackerberg, widow of real estate magnate and film producer Norman Ackerberg, tried to buy off the public.
The Widow Ackerberg offer $250,000 to Access for All, a non-profit that manages several pathways to Carbon Beach in Malibu, if they would close the pathway closest to her home. Unbelievably, Access for All said yes! Fortunately, the deal didn't get very far as Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant canceled the deal.
That might now be all for Access for All, pun intended, as the California Coastal Conservancy is seeking to regain control of the pathways it had turned over to the non-profit.
Here in California, money might buy you a nice, big, beach-front mansion, but it won't buy you a private beach!
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If you're looking for a great real estate agent in San Diego, well,
let me Google one for you.I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.
Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
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