In the last edition of the Mirror, our lead story was that Cape Charles has revealed a comprehensive Beachfront Master Plan designed to enhance the town’s coastline, integrating a variety of public spaces and amenities while preserving the area’s natural beauty.
Many of you voiced comments, both pros and cons on the Mirror news portal, as well as on social media, Facebook and X (Twitter). While those comments are important (the Mirror compiled and submitted them to the Town), they will not be recognized as legitimate as Cape Charles moves forward with the project. In other words, they will not be taken into consideration as the Town meets with the consultants to finalize the concepts that are presented in the beach plan.
It is important that your voices are heard, and the Town does want to hear your opinions. Just because you don’t own property in town, or no longer reside inside Cape Charles, the fate of Public Beach, while it is still public, concerns you and your family. Locals have a stake in what happens to the beach and need to speak up.
Let them know what you think.
All comments should be submitted either through the Beachfront Master Plan Virtual Public Meeting Room, or by email to our Town Clerk Libby Hume – Email: clerk@capecharles.org.
It is also important that if you email your comments to Libby, be sure that they appear in the proper survey format:
- Enter your Full Name:
- Enter your address:
- Submit your relationship to the town: Full-time resident living within the corporate limits of Cape Charles, Resides in Northampton County but outside the corporate limits of Cape Charles, Owns property within the Town of Cape Charles but maintains a primary residence outside of the town, or Resides outside Northampton County but a frequent visitor to Cape Charles
4. Comments:
For all emailed comments, please also email capecharlesmirror@gmail.com so that there is a second record. Using the Bcc line will also work.
To use the comment form in the Virtual Public Meeting Room:
- Go to: https://vmr.vhb.com/v/76j0K2xlzK9
- At the bottom of the page, click on the ‘Boards and Surveys’ link.
- From there, in the center of the page, click on the ‘Comment Form’ link.
Here is the link to the Beach Master Plan Virtual Public Meeting Room: https://vmr.vhb.com/v/76j0K2xlzK9
The Virtual Meeting Room documents have also been converted to PDF. Please click here to download the PDF document.
There will be a Town Hall on October 3rd. Please try and submit your comments before the meeting.
CCM: While those comments are important (the Mirror compiled and submitted them to the Town), they will not be recognized as legitimate as Cape Charles moves forward with the project.
In other words, they will not be taken into consideration as the Town meets with the consultants to finalize the concepts that are presented in the beach plan.
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That second sentence is the important one here.
The town, not having knowledge itself of what to do, or any ideas of its own, has spent taxpayer money on “EXPERTS” to do its thinking for it.
So, the way these things go, for somebody, anybody, to challenge this plan, they need an expert of their own, unless, somehow, they too have credentials of their own.
So, what makes these consultants “EXPERTS” where an expert witness is a person with specialized knowledge, skills, education, or experience in a particular field who is called upon to provide their expertise to assist with understanding complex technical or scientific issues, like managing dunes at Cape Charles beach, or siting toilets, etc.
That is what something called VOIR DIRE is for.
To show that the witness, in this case the town’s “c0nsultants” is indeed an expert, a qualification inquiry, often called a VOIR DIRE, is conducted where the witness will typically be questioned about the expert’s experience and education.
In other words, what is it that really makes them more knowledgeable about sand dunes than somebody who has lived in Cape Charles all their life.
So, in essence, this is a rigged game for the citizens of Cape Charles, given the town has already paid these experts to come up with this master plan, which the citizens will bear the burden of disproving.
And disproving with facts, as opposed to emotion.
Going to be an interesting process.
Yes, somewhat interesting.
However; the big money interests already have this one sewn up.
It’s a done deal. Inevitable in other words.
And so it goes.
Like taking candy from babies!
Who are the big money interests??? Back your answer up with some facts.
David Kabler says @ September 2, 2024 at 2:52 pm: Look ahead 20 years and picture Cape Charles with 3000 full time residents and accommodation for 5000 short term visitors.
That is our reality!
It’s a bold vision for the most attractive asset of our town and we must get started right away.
At 150 sq. feet per person, Mr. Kabler is proposing a minimum of 750,000 sq. feet of new construction in Cape Charles to accommodate 5000 short term visitors.
With the average cost per square foot to build an apartment complex in the U.S. being $310, what Mr. Kabler is presenting would cost some $232,500,000, which sounds like big money to me, anyway, although I suppose in Cape Charles, that could be considered mere chump change.
The new Dubai of the Cheasapeake Bay!
Yep, looks like some
folks could make a nice chunk of change by going along with the program.
Can you imagine what a real fun place Cape Charles beach is going to be with 5000 short term visitors with their golf carts there on a sunny day with their beach tents set up?
Should be just grand I would think.
Not only that, the food truck’s will be serving dog’s and cat’s!
Vote Harris / Walz and stop the Trump / Vance ridiculous rhetoric!
The food trucks in Cape Charles will be serving dogs and cats if Mr. Kabler’s proposal to add high-rise condos to the beach plan for Cape Charles to accommodate 5,000 short term residents comes to fruition?
How do you work that logic, or see a connection between the two – high–rise condos like they have in Florida along the beaches causing the ingestion of dogs and cats by these visitors?
Of course, if in fact there was a demand for food trucks serving cats and dogs, which is always possible, given they are considered a delicacy by some ethnicities or demographics, the marketplace could be trusted to meet that demand and that would be another plus for Cape Charles in terms of cuisine offered to satisfy the tastes of different palates, as should be the case in a truly cosmopolitan beach town like Cape Charles aspires to be under the steady guidance of Mr. Kabler and his futuristic plans for Cape Charles, to include nude beaches like San Francisco, Nice, and Cape Cod have, plus a Grand Prix through the streets of Cape Charles featuring the top Formula One teams in the world, which will draw in the A-listers like Taylor Swift, and where the A-listers go, their many fans are sure to follow.
And if those fans eat dogs and cats, then the food trucks will be su7re to serve them!
Simple economics, afterall, which is how things work in a capitalistic country like ours that is governed by the law of supply and demand.
As to ridiculous rhetoric from HARRIS/WALZ, how about Kamala Harris’s Starbucks Cups Gaffe: A Bizarre College Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbe-Dt_LMk
“We talked about those lids.”
“So here’s what I said to her.”
“Here’s what I said to her.”
“So you know how those lids — well I’m just going to speak ok so this is it.”
“So you know how those lids on the Starbucks cups, they’re white, right?”
“And so if you wear lipstick, they get all over the lid.”
“And so then I find myself in meetings, if I’m the only woman — so I keep taking the lid off and having my cup out so I don’t have that big lipstick mark on the lid.”
“So I said, can we do something about the color of the lid?”
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As if the lipstick wouldn’t show up on every other color lid other than one that was the actual color of the lipstick, which bit of logic went right over the empty head of Kamala Harris, and who other than some pretty shallow people would give a damn in the first place in a meeting where Kamala Harris was the only woman that she was leaving lipstick stains on her white Starbucks coffee container lid, and why is Kamala Harris in a meeting obsessing about lipstick stains on a coffee container lid that nobody else in the meeting gives a damn about, instead of paying attention herself to what the meeting is really about?
Cape Charles, with a thousand or so more Golf carts, should be quite entertaining whilst they interact and have incidents around town.
Lately I’ve noticed them zipping around the roads more than 10 miles from the town limits
with what appears to be children driving.
What could possibly go wrong?
Paul, I think they mean serve the cats and dogs as in: Wealthy nifty people bring their groovey pets with them. These food trucks are for those critters.
AH!
That makes sense!
Thank you so much for clarifying that!
It is appreciated!
I thought she was implying that Mr. Kabler’s plan for high0rise Florida type condominium complexes along the Cape Charles beach was going to draw an influx of Haitians.
No Haitians yet but Pomonkey Indian Casino corporation is looking at Cape Charles for a Casino and the Hiphop mogol Pferral is thinking of having a Something in the Water festivals on the beach.
Haitians actually avoid Cape Charles.
Someone put out the rumor Cape Charles residents eat Haitians!
If Joe Biden hears that being said, he is going to flip right out and who knows but what he would flood the town with FBI agents to see who is saying that people in Cape Charles eat Haitians because according to Joe, there is absolutely no place – absolutely no place, in this country, you know, certainly in our political discourse for this type of vitriolic, smearing hateful language, that people in Cape Charles actually eat Haitians.
They need something like that Burning Man festival held in Black Rock City, a temporary community in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada about 141 miles north of Reno, Nevada, it being an annual week-long arts festival that focuses on art, self-expression, self-reliance, and community, which sounds so Cape Charles ambiance to me, anyway, so that Cape Charles is the logical place for one on the East Coast which will draw in A-Listers like Paris Hilton, Victoria’s Secret model Kelly Gale, and her fiancé, Suicide Squad actor Joel Kinneman, and Katy Perry, Heidi Klum, Karlie Kloss, Kara Delevingne and supermodel Cindy Crawford, with their private jets, and where the A-Lister’s go, some 70,000 people are sure to follow, which should give a real good goose to the economy of Cape Charles, along with the Cape Charles Gran Prix with some of the top Formula I drivers racing through the streets of downtown Cape Charles and along the Esplanade along the Cape Charles beach where they could probably get up to 150 mph.
Whether or not any of that would serve to draw Haiti8ans to Cape Charles is as of yet unknown, and skilled consultants are working on addressing the question of how to lure Haitians to Cape Charles as we speak.