The council hopes Okaloosa County can join with Destin and Walton County to make beach renourishment a regional effort. The TDC is hoping beach renourishment would not only delay erosion of beaches but create an area of sovereign land for public use. Tom Rice, member of the TDC and Destin City Council, explained that if beaches are renourished, property owners would own the property only to the state's new erosion line. Deeds to the properties would be changed. Land beyond the erosion line would be sovereign land and therefore available for public use.
Deeds now mark the property line at mean high water line.
However, Rice proposes that property owners be allowed to request to be excluded from the renourishment process. He and the rest of the TDC hope beach renourishment would serve both tourists and residents. Renourishment would serve residents by creating a beach area in Destin for public use, and tourists by maintaining the size of the beach and color of sand.