"Among the many potential impacts associated with bringing SpaceX to Florida - including hearing damage to local residents and flight delays across the state, per various opponents - is the repeat closure of Playalinda Beach, a remote location on the Canaveral National Seashore that's one of Florida's four main public beaches where nudity is legal. Popular among the clothing-optional set, Playalinda could be closed up to 60 times per year due to Starship operations - and Deborah-Sue Stevens, a former regional director for the nudist organization's Western branch, says those closures will harm many members of her community."
"[There are] probably a quarter million people that travel and think like I do," Stevens said, calling into the Zoom meeting from California, "who look for destinations that are beautiful and surrounded by like-minded people." Erich Schuttauf, the executive director of AANR - which bills itself as the largest and longest-established nudist organization in the US with foundations dating back to 1931 - added that Playalinda closures might affect the non-nude community too."
SpaceX Starship operations at Kennedy Space Center could produce repeated closures and local impacts across Florida's Space Coast. Opponents cite risks including hearing damage to residents, statewide flight delays, and frequent shutdowns of Playalinda Beach. Playalinda sits on the Canaveral National Seashore and is one of Florida's few public beaches where nudity is legal, drawing clothing-optional visitors. Closures could occur up to 60 times per year and may harm many nudists who travel for nude-friendly destinations. The American Association for Nude Recreation warns that displaced nudists might relocate to nearby Apollo Beach, creating potential conflicts with clothed beachgoers.
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