The people I really feel for are the poor black folks out on the barrier
islands. They have owned their land for generations but their property
taxes have gone up to the point that they are being forced to sell to the
developers.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
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"Leanne" wrote in message
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"Roger Long" wrote in news:%DoCf.146409$XC4.144502
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Everytime I read about these kinds of things, I think back to a quote in
the newspaper from a Beaufort, SC, waterfront mansion owner. She didn't
want that "floating trailer park" blocking her view she'd paid $1.2M for.

Could it be they're trying to get rid of boating for these kinds of
people?

The tax bureaucrats are....

I live in Beaufort and the problem is that we have a transplant Yankee for
a
mayor. Btw, he is the one that got the bridge schedule change several
years
ago. So many people have come here because of the laid back charm. After
a
while they get bored and try to change it to the way they did it up north.
I
am a transplant, but have been here long enough to be naturalized
Beaufortonian and can still see the beauty as it is. You are right about
the
tax bureaucrats. We lucked on this old cottage in an estate sale over 20
years ago. Because we are on a deep water creek, the taxes have been going
up every year. The funny part is the house valuation seems to stay the
same,
but the land value has about quadrupled.

Leanne