The following letter is in response to “Lewes Beach belongs to everyone” by Juliet Bercaw, which appeared in the Aug. 15 edition.
I would be interested to know if Juliet Bercaw lives on Lewes Beach. I'm defining Lewes Beach as the land area on the east side of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal. I do live on Lewes Beach.
Any weekend, especially holidays, Cedar Street is wall-to-wall parked cars both sides of a two-lane road as well as the side streets and cul-de-sacs. People open car doors without notice, and there are people with beach equipment and coolers, strollers being loaded with babies, and children in the roadway. Then add people and children on bicycles and walking to the mix, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Residents of Lewes Beach make sure they have everything they need for a weekend, including their guests, before day-trippers swarm the beach. It takes hours just to get to Weis or Lloyd's markets. Some residents do not use their homes on weekends to avoid the overpopulation of Cedar Street and instead come during the week.
Now, as for local business, there is no local business on Cedar Street. Dairy Queen and the Lions Club operations are on Savannah Beach. The Daily Market and beach supply store are on Savannah Road.
The public that uses the Cedar Street beaches leave their trash in the cans provided as well as piled up all around, including broken beach chairs, bottles and cans, dirty diapers. Lewes city/beach taxpayers pay to have this cleaned up.
Lewes Beach residents have repeatedly asked for solutions to the overcrowding of Cedar Street and the side streets. The only forthcoming solution from the mayor and city council is to enforce not parking close to the corners on Cedar and the side streets.
The parking on Cedar Street must be addressed before someone is hit, or an ambulance or fire truck cannot get down the road to handle an emergency.
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