Burien's beach access is controlled by the powerful "Three Tree Point Association."

Burien doesn't dare oppose the takeover of this beautiful Public Access area and Beach Park located 15 minutes away from downtown.

You get around 40+ feet of waterfront across the street from your property. You can put in a 12-ft. high concrete bulkhead. It appears you can pave and build any kind of structure you want utilizing all of this space, apparently without any building codes or restrictions of any kind. You can even get water and electrical hookups and put up no trespassing and private property signs.

On the property that you actually own, across the street, you can rebuild or remodel what was once a beach cottage into a multi-story mega mansion utilizing almost every square inch of the lot, right up to the very edge of the road.

That is unlike the rest of Burien that has extremely stiff building and right-of-way limitations where you can even be fined $1000 a day for snipping a wayward wild blackberry branch on your own property.

There still is a beach access, reduced to a postage stamp size piece of property.

Now the residents have decided to disallow any nearby parking and had the city install no parking signs. But that bit of beach is still accessible to all, if you can walk there, but it probably won't be for long.

What could have been a tremendous asset to Burien has become the best buy in town for a few savvy buyers.

Sure, Burien has Seahurst Park where they recently took down all the concrete bulkheads after they realized the damage to the eco system that they were causing. That's a big park.

Burien also has Eagle Landing Park with a steep trail to the beach.

They don't need this public access area, which has quietly, dishonestly been stolen from the city.

The Highline Times will never publish this letter because the Robinsons live on Three Tree Point, although not at this location.

Jennifer Johnson

Burien