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r <br />JUN 6 1984 BooK 57 F'h,E3°78 . <br />buying what and who is paying for it has not been answered. <br />He believed there is no question but that the beach is an <br />asset to this county, but he did not know what it is worth <br />to the person who lives on Kings Highway as compared to the <br />business in Sexton Plaza. Another question to be answered <br />is what happens if we don't do anything. Commissioner Lyons <br />believed that undoubtedly the sea will continue to rise and <br />probably at an accelerated rate, and we are going to have to <br />continue to try to save the property that is there. If we <br />don't nourish the beach, then we get sea walls and the beach <br />will disappear there, but there still will be a lot of <br />beaches south of those sea walls that will benefit from this <br />erosion. Therefore, there is the option of not doing <br />anything except build sea walls which the property owners <br />can build themselves, and just forget that beach. <br />Commissioner Lyons continued to stress that all he is <br />convinced of is that we are pouring sand down a rat hole; <br />that he does not have the answer to what the value is to <br />people in different places in the county; and that he would <br />like to have further analysis. <br />OMB Director Barton stated that to put it all together <br />in an economic feasibility study to come up with the answers <br />Commissioner Lyons desires can only be a "what if" scenario. <br />There are probably 15 to 25 variables you could play with in <br />every situation, and each one will provide a different <br />answer. <br />Commissioner Bird noted that he went to Miami Beach <br />when they had sea walls, and he has been there since the <br />renourishing of the beaches, and it is an 1,000% more <br />attractive place today than it was with the sea walls. <br />Discussion continued re sea walls, and the Chairman <br />noted there is a permitted sea wall for The Spires right <br />now. <br />83 <br />