Privilege and entitlement.
it’s not just Malibu, similar battles are waged on coastlines all across the country. I remember people fighting over access to town beaches in Greenwich connecticut for non-residents as a teen and the town making non-residents jump through insane hoops to get passes when they lost. I think if you’re a non-resident you have to go to city hall during limited hours to secure a one day pass in advance that’s only good on a specific date. sh!t like that.
This is going on next to the town beach where I grew up in Rhode Island…
We always crossed the town beach line to drink where there were no lifeguards and open containers weren’t enforced. Here’s a couple pics of me and my old man on that beach more than 40yrs ago…
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If you look in the background it was all basic working class vacation homes. They were almost entirely summer rentals and nobody gave a fuck about coastal access. Parking was limited but the beach was for anyone who could find their way their. Now it looks more like the Hamptons and there are a bunch of rich motherfuckers who can afford not to rent their mansions out to summer rentals and think they’re gonna tell me I can’t be on the same beach I’ve been going to my entire life.
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