I've followed along here and I'm trying to get to the facts. So far, I see that the President came and had a ceremonial announcement of a title transfer of land behind the Sosua beach area that might include the land now used by the vendors. The vendors participated in a meeting with Sosua officials to voice their opinions and request their participation in whatever happens next. Several people here mention the 60 meters rule, and how that may impact everything else. After that point, there are a lot of other ideas around what this all means. Are there any other big, known facts in this story? Who got title to the land?
The government was gifted the extra land from the landowners that have the land up the hill to the main road, and I understand that they own the land south of the main road as well further up the hill. The President of the DR was in town for this gifting of land to accept it.
The land owners planned to build three structures, but that has yet to be done and may never be done.
The casitas on public land or in part on what was once private land now given to the government (hence with no titles of ownership of said land possible) are likely to be replaced by buildings on each end of the beach with only a few vendors in each (plans are decades old) - also those are plans and talk with little action so far.
Most vendors will no longer have shops since there would only be a few shops at each end of the beach. IFF the plans happen to be completed.
Public access to the beach will be preserved, at least at either end of the beach.
That is how I understand the situation put as simply as possible.