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.
(Excerpt) Read more at smdailyjournal.com ...
Now, improved with what looks like a bill of attainder.
Bye bye, private property rights. FU, Moonbeam.
Too bad.
Vinod’s a kewel guy
so does this let gays legally use beach bathrooms for sex?
If ever we need to unleash the 1stMarineDivision, California is the state. Then a military governor is appointed to clean out that sh*thole. After that, we enforce the 1867 Reconstruction Act to remove the governor and the state legislature. Next, the entire state congressional body is thrown out of the US Congress.
Finally, the idiot voters are given multiple chances to elect Americans who swear fealty to America and its Constitution.
I’m sure the state will be more than willing to pay an annual fee for the right to use the beach, patrol it and perform daily cleanup and maintenance.
Probably, most CA laws have a fudge packing clause in the fine print, but this is mostly about "takings".
Seems everyday this guy is signing some sort of new law into place. He continues to clamp down upon freedom and the people applaud. Were I the tin foil hat type I just might think California is the test case for the end goal of applying such freedom infringing laws nation wide. The ground zero of re-education camps. As it is, Californians continue to spread throughout other states infecting them with freedom restrictive laws.
Perhaps in addition to securing the Mexican border we should also be securing the California border.
He donates too much to DemoRats. He is DemoRats blunder.
There is no evidence to dispute your theory.
This is more complicated than might be clear at first blush.
There is a public beach, which had access through the property.j
Courts have been clear that the right of access was continuous, and must be maintained. The owner decided to close it off anyway.
He subsequently lost in court, and was ordered to comply and negotiate a reasonable public point of access to this public beach.
The law signed today basically says that if the negotiations fail or are overly delayed, that the state government is authorized to use eminent domain to seize the property and create the ordered public access corridor.
This is not an assault on private property rights. The permissive easement has been shown to exist for decades, and was known about when he purchased the land. He erected gates and posted armed guards trying to effectively turn a public beach into his own private beach by cutting off public access.
Also, this is probably the better solution... where he could sell the access throughway rather than live with a section of his property being an easement.
This is not one of moonbeam Jerry’s crazy communist plots.
California’s own Useful Idiots will do her in.
This sounds like a 5th Amendment applied to the states by the 14th Amendment issue to me. If California wants to decide policy for the land’s use against the owners wishes then California can buy the property.
The weak California Republican party hasn’t put anybody worth voting for in front of the people in quite some time much less put any effort into getting what they do put forth elected.
Jerry Brown therefore is feeling his oats.
So you’re okay with with the moron liberals in Washington, oregon, Colorado and the whole East Coast, it’s just Taxifornia that has you riled up, cause I gotta tell you I see crap being done in other states that make this look downright petty.
However, the law itself is in question in any unbiased, Constitutionally based court.
Further, the law is egregiously applied in highly selective manner, contrary to the "Equal Protection" clause.
Quite a few elite high donor Hollywood DemoRat types completely close "their" public beaches with continual help from powerful DemoRats and state police agencies including the Coastal Commission.This particular law has the markings of a bill of attainder, a huge Constitutional No No.
The problem here, is only that he is not a powerful enough DemoRat, not that DemoRats obey the law.
“So you’re okay with...”
Don’t even try to put words in my mouth...
That's not the Marxist way, they don't "buy"....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.