Back In The Day...

Back in 2004, we fought to get special permits for beach and dune mitigation at the driveway entrance. This took months and thousands of dollars of engineering, but we were able to get approved for certain work to pe done annually.

These permits last 10 years at a time and were thankfully, just renewed. But along the way, mother nature has had her way with the land and areas not specified in the permits and these areas now require attention.

It is important to note that until an area is at a certain level of issue, the Commission will not discuss special permits to do any work.

Time Marches On...

As sand build-up, combined with years of vegetation growth, have created line-of-site issues when leaving the resort, and the special permit to reduce the dune by the entry street sign is no longer enough to provide line-of-site for exiting the resort, we sought additional permitting to do more dune mitigation as well as request vegetation mitigation.

This process has taken 18 months and cost over $5000 in engineering, but we have finally been granted the ability create a plan to reduce the dune and vegetation in front of the 400 & 500 buildings.

Moving Forward...

Over the next month, we will seek a landscaping vendor that is qualified to do the work necessary. Once we identify that vendor, we will have to have a series of meetings with them, our engineering firm, and the Conservation Commission, to create an agreeable plan. When that plan is approved, we will get a cost.

Based on the preliminary report, this will be a substantial expense as it calls for removing all the sand and vegetation to bring the land down to base grade, then replacing the vegetation with approved, low growing, plantings like beach grass, along the approximately 2700sqft of space. Our guess is that this project could cost somewhere between $35,000-50,000, but until we have an approved plan and a bid, this is a best guess.

This level of expense will need to be prioritized into our ongoing annual capital spending plan.