They have approached me about the issue--which I agree needs a solution.
The problem: tacky, offensive signage up and down the beach (often connected by rope or chain) carving out portions of the beach there on Perdido Key that are privately owned. These are "no-trespassing" signs. I've heard, anecdotally, that children have run into the ropes and also that these tacky, connected signs potentially increase the danger to nesting turtles trying to get up the beach to lay their eggs.
It looks terrible, and tacky. It's dangerous to kids, and potentially harmful to sea turtles--those that are roped off from the dunes all the way down to the surf. According to many with whom I have spoken (and indeed from my own personal experiences at Perdido Key as a kid fishing with my dad)--this is a "newer" phenomenon that came about not too long ago.
Look--we all get it. portions of much of the beach at Perdido Key from the dunes to the mean-high tide line are private property and the owner(s) of such properties have the right to enforce no trespassing on such parcels and also to post signage notifying visitors of this.
But there is a less tacky, less obtrusive, and less onerous way to properly notice beachgoers that such parcels are "private property." They do it other places without such tacky eyesores. So we're going to be looking at best practices from around the state with respect to this issue with an eye toward a better, more aesthetically pleasing sign ordinance that doesn't litter the beaches of Perdido Key with these eyesores.
December 8th this will be discussed during public forum.
