Jersey Shore Chapter
Visitors in Sea Bright sit on a public beach and heed a sign's warning.
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA,New York Times, August 12, 2011. SEA BRIGHT, N.J. — If you find the rare parking spot here, and climb one of the few public stairways over the seawall to a crowded patch of sand, you might notice a nearly empty expanse of beach nearby, beyond a “no trespassing” sign.
Step past the sign, and a young man might zoom up on an all-terrain vehicle to shoo you away [Read more...]
Officials are rewriting rules that could help well-to-do towns keep tourists off their beachesLONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. — New Jerseyans have to put up with taxes, tolls, toxic waste and, occasionally, Snooki. So an occasional trip to the beach is all that keeps some folks here sane. [Read more...]
Remove barriers to beach access
DEP chief: There will be no loss of accessApril 3, 2011; Asbury Park Press – Kirk Moore. Read the story here.
Read the Associated Press story here and the Press of Atlantic City story here.
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NEWARK — Carol Johnston grew up in Newark, barely aware that it had a river.
“It was locked away behind dirty, rusty fences” or other barriers,” she said.
Yet like the state’s 127 miles of sandy ocean beaches, urban rivers and bays are supposed to be just as accessible to the public under the law.
But proposed changes to the state’s coastal access rules could have a big impact in urban and industrialized parts of the state, according to a coalition of environment and beach access groups who want the proposed rules to be improved. They say a rewrite of coastal access rules due out next month doesn’t ensure that the residents of poor or urban communities can fish, walk along or even look at rivers or bays.
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