This is how our beach looked under Mayor Johnson. How can this be? We are lucky enough to live next to one the world's largest bodies of fresh water. The City of Rochester has a few miles of beautiful undeveloped beach at Durand Eastman Park. And they go and plant these crazy signs every 100 feet or so along the shore. We get about two months of swimming weather a year and people naturally flock to the beach. Most pay no attention these signs. The City can't afford lifeguards and the signs get them off the hook if someone drowns. It just seems uncivilized to me.

And what about the people swimming off their boat like in the picture above. Are they swimming legally? It's got to be legal to swim in the lake. Isn't it? I was in Puerto Rico last summer and San Juan has miles of beach in the city and no guards or signs. How can the city tell us we can't swim in our lake?

Mayor Duffy came into office, pulled the plug on the Ferry, and then spent City money to carve out a managed beach with ugly signs and employees working on their tans. Looks like they may have grilled some meat in their downtime.

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