We are in for another season of arguing about beach driving Volusia County’s favorite political exercise.
This season was kicked off by the election of Jeff Brower as Volusia County Council chair. Brower is a staunch advocate for beach driving. In office for only a month, he snubbed a meeting at the Hard Rock because of the no-drive zone behind the hotel.
This is a topic everyone has an opinion about as witnessed by the collection of letters in Sunday’s News-Journal.
I have been covering this controversy since 1981, when I first reported on the Town of Ponce Inlet’s move to impose a beach toll along with a traffic-free zone. There was litigation and outrage, but other beachside cities soon moved to do the same thing beach tolls with traffic-free zones at the city limits.