Most residents are also experiencing the destruction of their Gulf views. The original homes were one story. Some partial subdivision under the old rules resulted in some two-story homes. In front of these homes go three and four story homes that wipe out the Gulf view of the original inhabitants and drop their property values by hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the barbaric real estate code of America only the latest developer has any rights. They can loot at will.
Now contrast this primitivism, this American barbarism with Japan, for example.
Friends of mine who are architects who have operated all over the world tell me that in Japan, if you have a view and register it, that is your view. No one can build a structure that cancels your view.
Moreover, my friends inform me that no one is permitted to build a structure that casts a shadow over your property.
As for developers inflicting noise on established residents, it is not permitted. Noise regulations have resulted in largely pre-fabricated construction in Japan. Houses are assembled, not constructed.
Compare this civilized approach to the looting approach of US real estate development in which no established rights are respected, rights that under common law would be squatters' rights to a long established view or beach access and rights to the solitude of a commuity. In the United States a total foreigner with no stake or interest in a community can legally destroy the value of the property in front of which he builds. He can impose unbearable noise on nearby properties for the period of construction, often making established property unusable for one year. He can impose cleaning costs on ajoining properties. He can prevent the rental of nearby properties as no one wants a vacation consisting of construction noise and dust.
In a way there is poetic justice. The previous builders of party houses can't experience the expected revenues because new party houses are being constructed, and the noise and dust discourage rentals.
Regardless of the poetic justice, what is underway is the genocide of Inlet Beach. And under America's utterly barbaric laws, it is all perfectly legal.
So much for American "freedom and democracy," another great myth. In the Great Myth that is America, no one has any rights except the latest money on the scene.
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