Juanita Irizarry, of Friends of the Parks, which has advocated for a public lakefront, said there’s a balance between the beauty and privilege of living on the water and what comes with that. “Friends of the Parks certainly wants to be sensitive to people’s immediate pain, but we also hope that this is an opportunity to engage people about what climate change might mean in the long term and what we might want to do for long-term planning for that space,” she said.