On Jul 20, 3:23?am, "longshot" wrote:
Coming before all that very long to the waterfront near you...
Pretty sad.

money makes the world go round. The Republican way of life. Fatten up the
rich. Draw the line fatter between the rich & everyone else. Watch the
peasants squirm.

Also disapppointing is the fact that it took just one post to turn
this from a land use isue that affects important boating
infrastructure into a political peeing contest.

Hey, longshot- it ain't the "fault" of the Republican party.
Hey, shortwave- it ain't the "fault" of the Democratic party.

Port Commissions are under a lot of pressure to produce the highest
possible economic return to their communities. In doing so, some of
them lose sight of thier basic mission- to operate a maritime port.

If the only consideration in every community is "what is the highest
and best use of every single square inch of property and how do we
move from here to there?" any industry that requires any amount of
space to operate or must by nature compete with intensive condo
development for "desirable" locations (i.e waterfront) is in the
crosshairs.

We're going to wind up with two economic classes in this country,
upper and lower. The lower class won't be able to afford to boat, and
the upper classes will drive waterfront values to the point where
prices for boats,motors, and service would be have to be much higher
than at present to cover overhead. That's exactly the dilema my
friends faced... there's no way to raise prices enough to offset a
700% rent increase. If they did raise prices that high, they would
lose most of their existing trade.