Stay tuned to this space for news of the next public meeting. Right now it looks like we’ll have a Saturday morning meeting at the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust Building on April 9, from 10:30 to noon, and we will update the community on the lawsuit brought by the 25 homeowners to privatize the beach.
If you feel strongly, one way or the other, you should attend. If you want to ask questions of the Save-Our-Beaches team, or Larry Mead as he represents the Town of Kennebunkport’s efforts to keep the beach free to the public for recreational use, keeping a century of traditional access, then come to the meeting. If you feel that there are legitimate reasons that a portion of the community would sue the rest of the community, come to this meeting.
We have been respectuful and polite to those that do not agree that Goose Rocks Beach should continue to be enjoyed by everyone, and are all interested in hearing why we have to have lawyers and judges decide the future of a community instead of electing representatives to speak to issues.
We will update this space this week, the first week in spring, as our thoughts turn to warm weather and renewed interaction with one another. Please come and enjoy coffee and conversation April 9, and a follow up meeting in May, and then a meeting before the annual budget vote in June. We’ll answer all questions, listen respectfully to all comments, and respond with our hearts and not our lawyers at these meetings.
Save-Our-Beaches has made, and will continue to make, efforts to keep our community whole as we overcome the lawsuit brought by a few. It is difficult not to get angry when we contemplate that our children could be kicked off a sandy beach by someone charging down over a dune. It is difficult not to get angry when we hear someone in the suit say that they don’t intend to kick anyone off, but wants the right to, which would be something anyone purchasing that land could enforce, having never lived here and enjoyed our 100 years of co-existance on the beachfront. But we remain committed to being civil and hope that some will change their minds about participating in the lawsuit, costing us all money and creating a rift, for what?
Don’t forget, as the Judge in this case has not forgotten, if the few homeowners were to win the suit they brought nearly 18 months ago, the individual homeowners can keep other Plaintiffs off of their beach as well! The irony here is that if one of the 25 homeowners were to lose this suit, their children would have access to the entire beach. If they win, their heirs will have access only to their small section of oceanfront!
Let’s talk about all this! Stay tuned to this space for confirmation of all the details. Save-Our-Beaches thanks all of you that wear the buttons, the hats, or have the decal on your car, and we’ll have all of those things at the meeting! See you there.