Long-term and affordable residential rentals are being eradicated from our county, especially from the coastal zone. We must preserve those we still have. Oceano has a few left on Pier Avenue. However, their tenants are being disproportionately impacted by State Parks’ visitors.
Tenants must suffer beach visitors in need of parking unlawfully using their private parking spaces or blocking their driveway and mailboxes. The most obnoxious and aggressive are State Parks’ patrons, beach drivers, and campers stopping on their way to the beach to deflate their tires and on their way back to inflate them. Many of them are not friendly to locals, especially those who complain about their presence. Friends of Oceano Dunes, a lobbying organization for beach driving and off-roading, has been under investigation for illegal fundraising. In a recent public statement, their president called those locals the “Enemy.” Many of us have already been threatened and harassed.
To worsen things, State Parks is closing the beach entrance at Grand Avenue for two months in the middle of summer. More than a thousand vehicles a day will crowd Pier Avenue, the only access to the beach. We do not oppose this construction project. We want State Parks to reduce the number of vehicles allowed onto the beach through Oceano by at least half during this construction period. The Oceano beach community is being overburdened and submerged. Please give us a break!
Lucia Casalinuovo
Oceano
This article appears in Aug 11-21, 2022.
You go Lucia! You are a consistent voice against the constant mayhem that takes place on the Oceano beaches. Local businesses are loathe to speak out against the so-called hobbyists that descend on these beaches with their death machines because they think they might lose some revenue.
I have a message for these businesses. Upscale citizens with a lot more money than the current mobs would be willing to use these beaches if they were without the 3-wheel contraptions. It’s time that Oceano put its foot down and barred this catastrophe from taking place in their town.
Keep up the good work, Lucia!
“Death machines”? Really? Perhaps a bit hyperbolic? Just because you don’t engage in a particular activity like off-roading, doesn’t make it bad.
The difference between liberals and conservatives is that, if a conservative doesn’t like a particular activity, they just avoid it. A liberal, however, wants to ban it for everyone.