The Problem
For more than a decade, Broad Beach has been trapped in a costly cycle of promises and disappointment. Since 2012, over $35 million has been collected from homeowners and funneled into a project that was supposed to restore and protect the shoreline.
Yet despite the staggering expense, the beach continues to erode. Year after year, deadlines slip, plans change, and excuses pile up. What began as a vision of coastal renewal has devolved into bureaucracy, legal wrangling, and broken trust.
The community was told the money would protect homes and rebuild natural dunes. Instead, much of it has been consumed by consultants, attorneys, and delays, with little to show on the sand itself.
The financial burden has been devastating. The relentless assessments and lack of progress have driven away longtime residents. Over 40% of homeowners have sold and left. What was once a vibrant coastal neighborhood has become a playground for the ultra-wealthy, while those who helped build the community have been priced out.
Today, Broad Beach stands as a symbol of a deeper failure: a system that spends freely, delivers little, and leaves both residents and the environment worse off.
The Turning Point
After years of waiting, watching, and paying into a system that promised restoration but delivered little, homeowners began to ask the hard questions: Where did the money go? Who is truly benefiting? And why hasn’t anything changed?
What they uncovered was unsettling: a structure that functioned less like environmental stewardship and more like a machine built to collect money without results. Millions poured into what many now recognize as a misleading and fundamentally broken system, one that rewarded consultants and lawyers instead of protecting the beach or its residents.
As residents looked deeper into the origins of the program, they discovered that its design and legal framework were shaped by individuals with deep ties to other controversial institutions. In fact, the original architect of the system had previously represented one of the most secretive organizations in the world, a connection that only deepened concerns about transparency, control, and intent.
The truth is hard to ignore: homeowners have been paying into a process that feels fraudulent in spirit, if not in law; a program that promised renewal while quietly draining the community.
But this is where the story shifts. Those who remain refuse to be silent or complicit. They are ready to demand accountability, end the cycle of deception, and rebuild a model based on transparency, trust, and genuine care for Broad Beach and the people who call it home.
The Vision
Broad Beach deserves better, and it’s time to create it. The new vision is simple but powerful: a community-led model that restores the beach, protects the environment, and rebuilds trust.
For too long, decisions about Broad Beach have been made in boardrooms and law offices, not by the people who actually live here. Homeowners have funded a lawyer-driven bureaucracy that prioritized legal maneuvering over real environmental progress. That era must end.
The future belongs to transparency and collaboration, not to consultants and legal contracts, but to residents, scientists, and local partners who care about outcomes, not billable hours. Every dollar spent should have a visible impact on the shoreline and the community it protects.
This isn’t just about rebuilding sand. It’s about restoring integrity. It’s about putting science, honesty, and shared values back at the center of coastal management. By partnering with credible environmental experts and local stakeholders, we can create a model that truly balances people, nature, and responsibility.
The goal is clear: replace a lawyer-driven bureaucracy with community stewardship, to prove that environmental restoration and fiscal responsibility can coexist when guided by transparency and genuine care.
Broad Beach can once again become what it was meant to be: a living shoreline, a thriving community, and a model for how stewardship should work.
Take Action
Broad Beach doesn’t need another decade of empty promises, it needs people who care enough to demand change.
If you believe in fairness, transparency, and true environmental stewardship, now is the time to stand with your neighbors and your coastline. Together, we can end the cycle of waste, restore accountability, and return Broad Beach to the community it was meant to serve.
Your voice matters. Your signature matters.
Each name on this petition sends a clear message: we will no longer fund failure. We will lead the renewal.