I wish I had the money to buy a $500,000 home, built in the viewshed of the Lewis and Clark National Park. Why I'd go visit there a couple times a year, money in real-estate, that's where it's at.
I spent an hour on the phone last night talking with a concerned citizen about a plan to build several very expensive "summer" homes in a wetland and shorebird migration stopover site on the Long Beach Pennisula in Washington. The proposed development is immediately north of the newly designated Lewis and Clark National Park. It sits smack-dab in the middle of a tsunami zone, probable salmon habitat and forested wetlands. The forests would be cut down, the wetlands filled... and the tsunami? well. that's what we have FEMA for.
Apparently, Washington State Parks and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife want to buy the property, but developers (not to be confused with actual property owners) don't make much from deals with the state and by all accounts this developer is particularly shady.
Oh well, I'll write my letter to Pacific County and get used to the idea that when I go to North Head now, I'll be seeing large, empty summer homes when I look north...