01-31-2021, 12:01 PM
(01-29-2021, 01:55 PM)mamabug Wrote: Per my husband, who used to live in Hawaii, all beach is considered public land. You can only own up to a certain point (not sure if it is high tide mark or X-feet above high tide). As someone who lives in a state that benefited from Teddy Roosevelt's preservationist tendencies, I do like the idea of having broad swathes of public land - especially beaches, forests, lakes and so on. I would just like to strengthen property rights around the land we are permitted to own.
Some states allow ownership of beach property and others much less so. No one has ownership of the ocean. Lakes are different. We own our property down to the shoreline, but an indelible easement exists up to a certain elevation (in our case, 800 feet ASL). On old water (e.g. the James River) the rules are different and, frankly, a bit weird, dating to British rule of the Virginia Colony. I suspect Massachusetts is likewise odd.
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