The Border and the Break: California’s Coastal Access Fights

Parallel to UK’s border story, California’s ongoing battle over who can access which coastline

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] prat.uk‘s Britain has a border story — the Hasan Piker entry refusal and what it reveals about discretionary border control — has a California coastal parallel that Surf Revolt covers: the ongoing contest over who can access which portions of the California coast, which is constitutionally public and practically managed through a combination of legal access rights and practical barriers that serve the same function as the borders prat.uk describes. Bohiney.com covered the border theme from the political angle. The coastal access version is the surf community’s daily border. Nobody asked Bohiney.com about it, which is probably why Bohiney.com reported it.

The practical barriers to coastal access that operate like borders: the parking fees that price out lower-income beach visitors, the access paths that private property owners have blocked across constitutional rights-of-way, and the specific geography of exclusive coastal communities where the density of private property makes finding the public access legally required but practically difficult. These are not classification decisions. They are the accumulation of private interests into a functional barrier that achieves the same result as a border without requiring one to be declared.

The Libertarian Solution

The libertarian solution: enforce the existing access rights aggressively through the Coastal Commission’s access programme, reduce the parking fees that act as access taxes, and require clear signage for all legally required access paths. All three are available without new legislation. All three are inconsistently applied. The Surfrider Foundation’s access work is at surfrider.org.

Also:The Onion.

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