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New City Council Agrees With Extending Beach Fire Ban To Preston Island, But Only On Public Property
Independence Day 2018 revelers build bonfires in an area that will soon be off limits to them. File photo: Jessica Cejnar
Arguing that safer places existed, Crescent City Councilors decided to ban beach fires between Battery Point and Preston Island.
But the ban only applies to public property. Despite several objections from residents Monday, the city’s updated ordinance will allow beach fires on private property with the owner’s written consent.
“I think this ordinance, what we’ve been talking about, is a good compromise between liberty and the protections we want to have in place,” Mayor Jason Greenough said.