I hear you, they recently passed noise legislation here, I can see the
sheriff standing on the beach with a sound level meter from radio shack
taking db.readings ,then showing up at the dock with a noise
ticket...sheesh! And the real estate influence...out of control...Our
sleepy little harbor used to be a haven for working stiffs and
fisherman, in fact they built this harbor around fishing, but since
every harbor from Marina-del-Rey to San Diego has waiting lists years
long, they (big money and local government) are swallowing up the 30'
and under slips, and spitting out 50 to 100 footers in their place. I
had to shake my head in disbelief, when I attended a board of
supervisors meeting,as they tried to convince us they wanted the harbor
to be a recreational facility for the entire county, after refusing to
renew the lease of my marina operator(who built it from scratch and
held it for almost 40 years) and instead awarded it to the
operator(corporate type) of one of the other large marinas,and whose
plan calls for the removal of even more smaller slips to make way for a
bigger piece of the tax-base fleet...With the median priced used home
going for near 700k, I must rent a home, but I can afford my little
boat and slip...But for how much longer that will be an option seems
finite....I look forward to that bubble bursting in the RE market with
reckless abandon...The same programs you were talking about on Sun.
mornings are filled with people saying that if you can't afford to live
here then maybe it's time to move....but I don't think they realize
that no one in their right mind is going to commute 100 miles to mow
the greens at their country club or bag their groceries or prepare food
in their favorite eating places...or wash their yachts....