SANDERS: Fences make bad neighbors

Is this serious? Allowing homeowners to put fences on Sanders Beach will ruin one of our few expanses of beach here in beautiful Coeur d'Alene. The beach, even if it is private is a signature part of our town. Anyone that comes onto our lake as a tourist (who spends money here) will see this and think it is a trashy look to our wonderful lakeside properties.

The private beach issue is fine, but do we have to make the beach look ugly, too? Why don't we just throw trash on it, too.

This is like allowing all the private hotels in Maui or Wakiki beach to build fences down to the ocean. That would not look pretty to me.

Please, before you build a fence, think about how the landscape looks here in Coeur d'Alene.

I spend lots of time on Sanders Beach in the summer and now that the privacy has been established, I hardly see even the homeowners on their own piece of beach. So why do they really need a fence, what will it do for them? Please leave the view alone. The one fence that is there is ugly enough.

CATHY GEPHART

Coeur d'Alene