FALMOUTH — For generations, a rocky ribbon of beach on Buzzards Bay was considered communal by Sippewissett residents, a precious slice of the Atlantic guaranteed for those in the century-old subdivision not lucky enough to live right on the water.
But in the last decade, residents say that access has been eroded, not by the encroaching ocean but by a few wealthy homeowners trying to protect waterfront properties with new walls.
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typical rich people, entitled to the core, 'catch us if you can'.
If you don't own it, and if you aren't paying those outrageous taxes that you approved of to soak them, then you don't have any say. And properly so!
No one should even be allowed to build along the beach let alone think they own it. And those town officials really should remember the middle class out number the rich folks and will vote them out of office so they better play nice.
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"Beaches" can be owned. It depends on the wording in the deeds. This beach was not (technically is still not) owned by the owner of the wall. I think the real issue is 'where did the groin of rocks that juts out into the ocean come from?' Typical of the Town of Falmouth's committees and commissions - they have their heads in the "sand" (sorry for the pun). How did a groin (or jetty) of large stones get built without some involvement of the Conservation Committee. They, the Conservation Commission meddle in the affairs of other beachfront property owners over such things as acceptable materials to use on a driveway (like crushed stone or seashells - or what plantings are acceptable in landscape plans (plants must be indigenous - therefore NO hydrangeas!!); but a homeowner BUILDS A LARGE STONE GROIN that juts into the water - - and they seem to have no knowledge and nothing to say.