Posted on 10/07/2014 5:51:25 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The public’s love affair with Martin’s Beach and efforts to reopen the contested property earned another supporter Tuesday as Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring the wealthy owner to negotiate open access or potentially face a piece of his land being seized by the state.
Just hours before the deadline Tuesday, Brown signed state Sen. Jerry Hill’s Senate Bill 968 to force Vinod Khosla and the State Lands Commission to iron out a compromise that will reinstate access to the crescent shaped strip of coast south of Half Moon Bay. If negotiations fail by Jan. 1, 2016, the SLC could use condemnation to create an access road to the beach off Highway 1.
Khosla, a venture capitalist who co-founded Sun Microsystems, bought the remote property for $32.5 million in 2008 then closed it to the public less than two years later.
Hill, DemoRat-San Mateo, said he’s proud the Legislature and the governor upheld the public’s long-established rights to enjoy the coast.
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Well, yeah, but
Jerry Brown therefore is feeling his oats.
The "oats" in Moonbeam's hands have been through the horse,....more than once.
Hey I’m not the one saying send in the Marines to chew up a state. By the way I don’t agree with it but I believe that beach access is something that that is required in California and sounds like there was for this property until the after the sale.
Thanks for the correction. =^P
Thanks for posting that. That’s pretty much the way I figured it. The guy’s basically being an a$$hole by trying to illegally close a legal, access easement. That sort of thing happens time to time here in Colorado, though mountain access rather than beach access :)
SOP in the Aloha State. If one owns a property that landlocks a beach the owner is required to provide an access path for public use.
Yup. ;)
My parents owned a lakefront property in Wisconsin. On the far side of the next door neighbors house was an easement strip down to the lake....the 100 feet of the lakefront was owned by the state...they hed the benefit of lakefront property without the high tax rate for such.....and almost noone ever used the easement!!!
Bingo, direct hit. How could a guy with that kind of loot
not see that coming?
Don’t even try to put words in my mouth...
It's been my experience, that when somebody responds to a reply and the first word they type is "so", they are always "trying to put words in your mouth".
I agree. The public access law has been in effect since the 1970s. While creating easements took property rights away from the owners then that should have been compensated for, this guy knew those easements were in effect when he bought it. Caveat emptor, pal.
There a few places where beach front property is banned from public use. One of the largest of these is section of beach near Camp Pendleton. Not many places in this country can you pull of the freeway at road side stop and watch a full scale invasion by the Marines. And people restricted from the beaches during the fun and games.
As a land surveyor I’ve seen this numerous times.
One example just recently where years ago a couple purchased a large piece of undeveloped land inside of city limits in my county. Before her passing, the mother subdivided her land into 6 lots, one for each child. The new plat given to the land also required ingress and egress thru the subdivision to each lot, as it is illegal to landlock a parcel in my state.
Eventually, one of the lots was sold to a non family member and the buyer began clearing the access easement to his lot. The remaining family members tried very hard to stop this from happening arguing that the subdivision was private land including all easements, but ultimately they were powerless. The access granted (by the original owner)could never be intended for PRIVATE use only, EVEN THOUGH it was at one time private land. The easements created must be given as PUBLIC access to the new lot(s) for future access and development
Yeah fun and interesting to watch, however I believe the bases are considered federal not state, just like I wouldn’t try to go on the beach at the Los Al naval Weapons Station.
Missed a step or two.
Send the libtard voters back to sh*thole states like
Pennsylvania and the other places they lived before
they stormed our eastern borders. Once we get our
state back some of good Californians chased away
will return and all will be happy.
they are restricted from the landing (beach) area during operations because it is really hard to get all the pink goo out of the treads of the AmTracs after we squash them like bugs.
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