Seizing a Billionaire Owned Land to Ensure Surfing Lives

Surfing is to Californians like guns are to Texans. You don’t mess with it. A California billionaire tried to block surfers from accessing killer waves off the coast of San Mateo County. It set off a fight.

The Californai Legislature, Courts, and now the California Lands Commission have all attempted to settle the disupted beach access. 

The California Lands Commission is mulling over using eminent domain to seize the surfer paradise from the billionaire. In 77 years, the California Lands Commission hasn’t used its eminent domain power. 

This isn’t just for Californians. Remember the post-hurricane beach access and property line disputes in Texas?

Bloomberg News via San Diego Source

Previously on Information Intelligence:

Surfers Blocked from Beach. Eminent Domain on the Horizon. 

The California legislature sought to find middle ground over public beach access through a California billionaire’s property. The courts sided with the surfer’s right to beach access. The legislature sought the more peaceful resolution for the billionaire- negotiation. Governor Brown agreed and signed the bill. But if negotiation fails, eminent domain is back on the table. A billionaire wants to keep his beach private. Surfers want to surf.

Never ending circle between the courts and the legislature over private property rights.  Happens in California. Happens in Texas. Private Property rights will always be a bone of contention. [San Francisco Chronicle]

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