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Questions and answers regarding river preservation
Q: Why all the fuss about public-access areas? Should people really have to put up with strangers traipsing around next to their house?
A: If they bought property with deeded public access, yes, they should.
They knew the public access point was there before they signed the papers, and if the concept bothered them, they shouldn't have bought the property.
Many people buy properties with (for example) an easement for a driveway into someone else's interior lot. If they decide that they don't like the idea of cars driving up that driveway, that doesn't give them the right to try to eliminate the easement.
Opinions differ on this subject, but we feel that this kind of behavior is utterly reprehensible. State tax money paid to establish the public-access areas, and we cannot help but view attempts to "privatize" them as anything other than theft of public property. That land belongs to all of us.
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