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With modest waterfront cottages lining narrow, tree-covered streets, the area seems more like Cape Cod than the South Fork.
The results are staggering: The once-traffic-choked road along the waterfront has been narrowed in favor of a popular walkway, while cars are diverted underground.
The planning commission can build on these efforts by making sure that its new zoning rules include a requirement for substantial set-asides -- more, that is, than a narrow esplanade -- for recreation and waterfront access.
But soon there were complaints that the faster boats' wakes were eroding shoreline in the narrow Rich Passage, including the beaches around some waterfront homes.
Residents here fiercely protected her privacy, didn't ask for autographs and often misdirected sightseers looking for the narrow unmarked lane that led to her waterfront home.
As I drove down the eastern Florida coast, the view had gone from high-rise ocean-view condos to luxe waterfront homes to just a narrow strip of grass and shrubs, with Atlantic waves breaking on the other side.
By the end of Wednesday's opening-night gala, where the audience greeted Pedro Almodóvar's "Mala Educación" ("Bad Education") with a rapturous ovation, police vans lined the narrow streets off the Croisette, Cannes's waterfront thoroughfare.
Bethany Marten, owner of Home Buyers Resource Centerr in Riverhead, said there is so much waterfront diversity on Long Island, from narrow canal to expansive ocean, that with the right mix of commitment and compromise, anything's possible.
