10. Beach Management Districts
Beach management districts should be established on a neighborhood scale to help maintain or restore nearby beaches and other shoreline areas. A beach management district (BMD) is a special designation for a group of neighboring coastal properties that provides a mechanism for implementing erosion mitigation projects at multi-property scales. BMDs streamline the permitting requirements for beach preservation and restoration projects and facilitate cost sharing between the group of neighborhood owners and county, state, and federal agencies. Further details about establishing beach management districts and the advantages and challenges of establishing them are thoroughly discussed in a 1992 report entitled Beach Management Plan with Beach Management Districts by Hwang and Fletcher.
Certain beach management projects (e.g., large beach restorations) affect several beachfront properties. The formation of a beach management district allows a group of adjacent landowners to address shoreline issues as a unit rather than as individual property holders (HWANG AND FLETCHER, 1992). As a beach management district, the group can pool its resources and streamline the permitting process for such projects. Often, county, state, and federal agencies will participate in cost sharing for a particular project, if it benefits the public. Some condominium associations and neighborhood boards already act as de facto beach management districts.
Objective
10.1) To encourage and implement beach management districts in order to coordinate beach management on a neighborhood scale
Recommendation
10.1a) Establish beach management districts at erosion hotspots, especially those proposing to implement a beach restoration project
10.1b) Set up a mechanism at the county and/or state levels for evaluating petitions to form a beach management district
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