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There’s parking for about 8 cars there. Just open the path and the people will be happy and let it go.
Why not use eminent domain for something good for once?
My family. It is I MARK ANTHONY WISE MAY ELEVEN 1987 WE ARE HERE TO CALL FOR OUR TIME. WILL YOU STAND WITH US? WE ALREADY KNOW ONE ANOTHER
Nothing but criminals and Grevious people in that town!
nobody should be able to own the beach,
About ten years ago, a RI DEM officer confronted me for walking out to the point at Quonochontaug to do some striper fishing as I had always done since I was a kid. I told the DEM officer that the law in RI was ten feet from the high tide line was public property. She reluctantly agreed and had to let me continue my walk to the point. That land was always allocated as a wildlife refuge and accessible to the public. Then suddenly the town of Westerly started selling it off to the elites so they could build their palaces. To me, that is the real crime here. How and who allowed this land to be sold for profit?
Sad part is where I live tiverton little Compton areas all private. I served my country protected my country but yet I can’t get to the beach. Ridiculous. Can’t have just one public path. Nope. The public beach’s in this area are insanely expensive..but so is everything in today’s world. 🤷♂️
It only took about 34 years for the VA to send me out for the PTSD exam and I had to see 3 separate people to get a diagnosis and they all rated me the same but yet the VA denied my claim, I asked to be examined by a VA doctor again the results same, and have been under weekly therapy for two years set up and paid by the VA. The active army would not even examine me so for 44 years I have walked around with PTSD. It took 44 years to get my in service come ted TBI, and the VA denied my claim, the VA set up the examine and paid for it then not except the results because they are in my favor. Veterans face service connected PTSD but the worst we have to deal with should be called VA PTSD the VA causes veterans pain, angwesh no hope so vets start to see taking their own lives as a way to end the pain, and the VA acks like this is a new this it's happened to vet's from every war and conflicts, we vets have walked through the gates to hell countless times, but the hardest road for us is the highway to hell that leads us to the VA.
This is happening all over the country.
My neighbor owns all the way up to the water on my end of the property. he says I can't access the water because he owns it. little does he know the water in our state is mostly owned by the electric companies... So good luck trying to keep me off the pond... Oh yeah, and by the way, he doesn't live there, eleven months out of the year.
Omg the “private property” over shoreline. Stop letting people build houses on shorelines & keep beaches as nature intended.
These women truly rock! I love them!!
It is private private property with an easement to allow public access . A 50 foot right of way has been shown to exist on a private property , thus , thus is the public . New jersey went through this in 1984. 40 years ago is about right
The people who think they own the beach are not Rhode Island Natives . 🖕
The music is too much
Is somebody paying taxes on these areas?
Cued Speech is better than ASL
I'm a bit astounded at some of the comments. It seems some people think that you can cross anybody's property to get to the beach. Some commenters think if you own property next to the ocean, Narragansett Bay, a state/town park or forest, etc. think you can't prevent them from crossing over your property to get to the public property. Since the 1600's Rhode Island salt water shoreline is open to the public up to the recognizable high tide line. Yes, that's easy to do if you have a rowboat or kayak. But to get access over land in the past hundred years the towns and State has purchased lots of land to make access readily available to over seven miles of shoreline, such as Misquamicut, Narragansett Town Beach, Goddard Park, Colt State Park, etc. In addition, the CRMC has maps of public access points to dozens of shoreline places. True not every mile of shoreline has access from a town road but if the town or state really wants public access they can acquire it through eminent domain. As for this case it seems the RI Superior Court will make the judgement based on the law and evidence presented by the RI Attorney General and the Fire District.
I research about Total Communication. It was so risky because I had bad sign language, poor English, and a lack of speech in a mainstream school when I grew up there. My parents spoke Spanish and didn't even know how to sign language. I looked like I was a language deprivation. I wish they chose Cued Speech or Auditory/Oral for me instead of Total Communication.
As of July 19th, 2024, RI is 24 thousand units short, 72 percent increase in homelessness in 2023, both, and housing secratary resigned, fair market rate is not affordable
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Clear the old access
Keep beaches public! Poor moody beach in Wells Maine was taken from us, only now making headway on getting it back.
And when Mother Nature comes calling and washes it all away, these same private land owners will demand and receive governmental , the public’s assistance in restoring the damages. All their private insurance is backed by the government ( public) for their multi million dollar homes too. Motivation to eliminate simple access via a few parking spots??? Is it because the public comes down there, leaves their trash, ie: dirty diapers in the bushes while blearing their radio too? No respect, happens at all the other public beaches 2 sides to the coin here.
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Visited this site in 2013. Was told that my great-grandfather's likeness is depicted in one of the images. I grew up in Providence, RI and never knew about this site.
But there is no private beaches there private property, but i believe Rhode Island has that in Law no private beaches
Correct, but ten feet above (inwards) of the recognizable high tide line is usually private property. There are many exceptions where it is public property, such as Narragansett Town Beach, Colt State Park, Misquamicut State Beach, Goddard Park, etc.
The ones up here don't bite people, I know this from in person experience
The exhibit was over by the time I watched this.
Rich white people
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I am so moved by her story! Thank you for sharing. ❤❤❤
People who own property think they own the beach. They shouldn’t be able to own the beach.
True, and that is guaranteed by the RI Constitution and Royal Charter since the 1600's. But inwards of the recognizable high tide line plus 10 feet the land may be privately owned.
These types are thieves of the public use
The filthy rich act filthy.
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I want to win the lottery and become filthy rich, just like you
@@Do.Christ Some people won't be filthy rich because they share the wealth tho.
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Not only beach access but parking also
they don't want the great unwashed on their beach.
I think they want to reserve daytime access for three months of the year to the homeowners in their fire district that pay the fire district tax whether they have washed or not. My fire district tax is about $500 per year on top of my town property tax, so I suspect their district taxpayers want something for their money.
The ocean state! But only for the rich!
This video posted b4!! KZread video “ 1 minute ago… after 87 years, Amelia Earhart’s plane location finally found “….
I had read that the sign language came from England along with congenital deafness with the early settlers. No mention of Nora Groce? That’s odd.
Absolutely terrible behavior blocking people to public spaces.
So you think the general public should able to cross the yard of the neighboring house at any time to get to the beach? Or go across my yard to get to the town forest behind my house?
who pays taxes on it?
Sounds like Bob is a real a-hole
Bob needs to get over himself. Karma !!!! You don’t own the beach!!!
True, he doesn't own the beach and he didn't claim that he did. The fire district claims they own the land inwards of the 'recognizable high tide line'. Below that line (the water side) is public.
@@roynajecki1100 He is trying to stop people from using a beach access that has been available to the public for years and years, it even has a parking lot. I am sure there are many homes and businesses near by that utilize this access. He might as well have claimed he owns the beach! I live in a beach town in SC, homeowners and HOAs make it near impossible to access the beach. If they took away a public access in my town it would be devastating to those who can’t afford to own an oceanfront home.
@@refosco1993 In Rhode Island there are dozens of legally recognized rights-of-way to coastal areas. The CRMC on their website has a map of them. And in Westerly there is already a public access beach over a mile long, so it's not as though folks in that town don't have easy access to the beach. As to the Fire District parcel having a right-of-way that's a matter for Superior Court to decide. I've read the RI General Law on the subject and not being a lawyer I don't fully understand it. But in my reading of the law it sounded like the right-of-way had to have continuous use (ie at least once a year) by a wheeled vehicle like a farm cart, wagon, etc, or the land owner had to acknowledge that the public had a right to cross the land. Anyway this shakes out it will be interesting to read the Superior Court decision. "Privately owned paths to the shore, that have been used for a period of ten consecutive years by the public, may become public ROWs if the requirements of Chapter 34-7 of the Rhode Island General Laws are met. This method is commonly referred to as an easement by prescription. In order to create a public ROW by this method, the public has the burden of establishing actual, open, notorious, hostile and continuous use of a way under a claim of right for 10 years. In addition, the law specifically does not allow a public ROW to be established by footpaths; the pathways must have been used by carriages or vehicles."
@@roynajecki1100 Ok boomer…. Don’t waste your energy on me though, trust that I won’t be raising from the south anytime soon to go to the beach in Rhode Island, especially if this is how the locals act!
Crooked state
I’m originally from Maine As you know, lobster fishing Is important industry. The rules and regulations are much stricter in Maine than in Massachusetts & Rhode Island , 3 pound lobsters are the limit to harvest in Maine however those restrictions are not adhere to in other states. The very large lobsters are referred to as breeders, some having thousands of eggs. female lobsters are also marked! Demand for larger lobsters is one contributing factor to the reduced population ! My fear greed will continue to affect the lobster population along with other Mitigating circumstances !