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beachfront owners who don’t sign easement for dunes to face ridicule ?
Christie tells beachfront owners to sign easement for dunes or face ridicule
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Last updated: Tuesday March 26, 2013, 5:25 PM
BY MELISSA HAYES
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record
Governor Christie put oceanfront property owners on notice Tuesday, saying those who don’t give the state permission to build sand dunes on their land will be named publicly.
“We’re going to start calling these folks out in the next few weeks if they haven’t signed the easements to let us build the dunes because they need to be called out and they need to be told that there is something more important than their own self interests,” he said during a town hall-style event in Middlesex Borough.
The threat is Christie’s latest attempt to persuade private property owners to permit the Army Corps of Engineers to build sand dunes on their land. Christie said superstorm Sandy wiped out any argument against dunes, because communities with engineered beaches suffered significantly less damage than those without.
“I’m not going to put up with people that decide their view of the Atlantic Ocean is more important than the lives and the properties of their neighbors,” he said.
