Gentrification happens. You are owed nothing. Still plenty of cheap beachfront property in other places.
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Didn't superstorm Sandy teach the city and these developers anything?
And are we going to have to bail out, literally as well as financially, these "luxury developments" after the next hurricane?
I traveled through the area frequently after the storm, saw sand dunes pushed by the waves 4 to 5 blocks from the ocean.
The public school I was working with closed for months and students were bused to schools miles away.
And there is only one evacuation route to "higher ground".
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@AWG: My family's house stood on piles less than 400 feet from the boardwalk for close to 100 years. It withstood countless storms and was leveled in the 1960s by urban renewal. You can fight the weather but you cannot fight City Hall.
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@AWG
The city did learn something from Sandy. Revised building codes for the peninsula require new construction to be elevated. The Tides apartments are well elevated for example. Also in order to gain approval for significant renovations of existing homes the DOB now requires them to be raised onto new higher concrete foundations by the homeowner or developer to conform with the new flood requirements.
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