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"At the end of a walking path at Seacliff State Beach, there is a memorial wall facing the ocean that is dotted with names and photographs of Aptos residents who have died.\u00A0The stone wall separates a multi-million dollar house from Seacliff State Beach. The homeowner, Nicole Richardson, is also the wall owner because the wall is on her private property.VIDEO: Seacliff State Beach wall controversy in Aptos deepensAn emotional controversy began earlier this month when a public notice was posted alerting the public that all memorials would be removed from the wall by August 30.The notice looked like it was posted by the State Parks Department; however, the sign was actually made by Richardson and her husband, James\u00A0Richardson.Aptos resident Cindy Jewell started an online petition, \"Save The Seacliff Beach Memorial Wall,\" and as of Wednesday afternoon, the petition had more than 2,700 signatures.Petition: Click here to sign or read the memorial wall petitionLast week, state park rangers told KSBW that they were working with the homeowner to take down the memorials. But after the public outcry, park rangers informed Richardson that they were reversing their plan, and would not help her.So on Saturday, Richardson filed a vandalism crime report with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office.Sheriff's Sgt. Kelly Kent said the sheriff will not take any action against the memorials and people who put them there.\"The complaint is vandalism, plain and simple. She's complaining that people are removing bricks and damaging her wall that borders her property on the state beach,\" Kent said.Kent said because there are so many names pinned to the wall, arresting any one person for vandalism would be almost impossible.\"Vandalism is a specific intent crime, so we would have to show that these folks intended to damage or destroy the wall. And that's not clear in this case at all,\" Kent said.Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend's district includes Aptos. Friend said the county has no authority over what happens to the wall, but he personally hopes the homeowner will be open to a mediator and talking with the community.\u00A0\"It's pretty extreme stance to want to remove everything off the wall,\" Friend said.Jewell and sheriff's deputies agreed that a mediator between the community and the homeowner would help the situation. So far the Richardsons have not responded to requests for a mediator.The Richardsons' Aptos property is their beach house. Their permanent residence is in Los Gatos, where they also faced a dispute with the city.VIDEO: Aptos wall controversyIn 2005, the Richardsons were cited for building a large private path -- 12 feet wide and 4,000 feet long -- on a hillside that the city had marked as protected open space. The Richardsons made changes required by Los Gatos and the issue was resolved in 2007.As for the petition to save the wall, people are still being encouraged to sign it, but who it'll eventually go to isn't quite clear, since state and county leaders actually have no influence over the wall's future."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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