This document outlines 6 problems with the current SMP update and proposes reasonable solutions to better protect the environment and property rights. The proposed solutions include using site-specific rather than generic buffers and setbacks, declaring existing homes conforming, encouraging shoreline armoring with voluntary mitigation, permitting docks and floats to encourage recreation, establishing an academic peer review panel, and focusing on engineered solutions that mitigate loss rather than overly protective designations.

1. Six BIG problems
with the SMP update.

2. Six reasonable solutions
that protect the environment
and our property rights.

3. Generic
buffers and setbacks
that ignore site-specific conditions.

4. Site-specific
buffers and setbacks
that tailor regulations to
real-world conditions.

5. Existing, legally built
homes declared
non-conforming.

6. Declare existing homes
conforming.

7. Cumbersome restrictions
on shoreline armoring.

8. Encourage armoring with
voluntary mitigation
to “feed” the beach.

9. A reluctance to permit
docks and floats.

10. Welcome docks & floats
to encourage recreation.

11. Reliance on best available
science that isn’t.

12. Create a regional academic
peer review panel.

13. A dramatic increase in
protected designations.

14. Engineered solutions that
mitigate loss.

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