For years, many South Carolina residents have wanted to slow development and save coastal lands. The beach, sand, and surf have and will always attract people. The atmosphere around the beach is always a fun, laid back, and relaxing feel. With all the people that visit our beaches it is sure that some will return with plans for development. The loss of land is no ones fault but our selves, now is as good a time as any to slow down development and save what little undisturbed land is left. Precious coastal land that is lost everyday is gone forever. This land is not only lost to development and other ways of man, erosion is also a very big factor. Coastal development should be slowed because of the valuable lands are being lost or damaged. .
The houses that are built along the coast are expensive and not just small weekend get away cottages. These houses are two and three stories and very expensive. It seems that every new house that is built has to exceed the standing ones. Whether it is in looks, size, or the price. The coastal land is expensive as well. Sometimes a lot by itself with nothing on it could cost into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The houses that are built on this hundred thousand dollar lots will cost near a half million dollars. Author Earl J. Baker says in a USA Today article "As more and more homes are being built along the shoreline, their vulnerability to nature's fury becomes a problem with which legislation must deal"(Baker). As long as there is more building around the coast this chance of large disaster will be a problem. In August of 1992 Hurricane Andrew hit the southern coast of Florida this storm did an estimated 20-30 billion dollars in property damage. The suffering and astronomical amount of money lost brought up a very important issue, should there be a limit on what kind of developments could be built in areas with high hurricane potential (Baker).
