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To: combjelly who wrote (417323)	9/15/2008 10:39:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583412

When I moved to Galveston in the mid-70s, the West End didn't have many structures on it. And the ones it had were on the bay side. That started to change in the 1980s, and the pace has been accelerating. And a lot of those houses were really nice. The property owners put enough pressure on the city that beach access has been greatly restricted. Possibly illegally so. Used to be there was a sand road that cut through the dunes about every mile or so. Those are all gone now. What replaced them was several parking lots with no vehicle access to the beach. So the property owners have been, in essence, granted a private beach. I don't think FEMA money should be used to rebuild those houses. If insurance companies want to pay the money, that's fine but its stupid for the feds to encourage development in that area.