{"id":153,"date":"2015-01-26T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/01\/26\/seizing-a-billionaire-owned-land-to-ensure-surfing-lives\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:41:00","slug":"seizing-a-billionaire-owned-land-to-ensure-surfing-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/seizing-a-billionaire-owned-land-to-ensure-surfing-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Seizing a Billionaire Owned Land to Ensure Surfing Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing is to Californians like guns are to Texans. You don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The Californai Legislature, Courts, and now the California Lands Commission have all attempted to settle the disupted beach access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The California Lands Commission is mulling over using\u00a0eminent domain to seize the surfer paradise from the billionaire. In\u00a077 years, the California Lands Commission hasn&#8217;t used its eminent domain power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just for Californians. Remember the post-hurricane beach access and property line disputes in Texas?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sddt.com\/News\/article.cfm?SourceCode=20150123fab&amp;_t=Lands+Commission+backs+surfers+access+to+California+beach#.VMaKLMY-AwR\">Bloomberg News via San Diego Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on Information Intelligence:<\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>Surfers Blocked from Beach. Eminent Domain on the Horizon.\u00a0<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Posted Oct 06, 2014 02:56 PM<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/?category=beaches\" style=\"color:rgb(119,118,119);text-decoration:none;\">beaches<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/?category=legal-trend\" style=\"color:rgb(119,118,119);text-decoration:none;\">legal trend<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/?category=legislation-trend\" style=\"color:rgb(119,118,119);text-decoration:none;\">legislation trend<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/?category=private-property-rights\" style=\"color:rgb(119,118,119);text-decoration:none;\">private property rights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The California legislature sought to find middle ground over public beach access through a California billionaire\u2019s property. The courts sided with the surfer\u2019s right to beach access. The legislature sought the\u00a0more peaceful resolution for the billionaire-\u00a0negotiation.\u00a0Governor 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.<\/p>\n<p>Never ending circle between the courts and the legislature over private property rights. \u00a0Happens in California. Happens in Texas. Private Property rights will always be a bone of contention.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Legislature-passes-bill-to-ensure-public-access-5704641.php\" style=\"color:rgb(53,152,252);text-decoration:none;\">[San Francisco Chronicle]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing is to Californians like guns are to Texans. You don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The Californai Legislature, Courts, and now the California Lands Commission have all attempted to settle the disupted beach access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The California Lands Commission is mulling over using\u00a0eminent domain to seize the surfer paradise from the billionaire. In\u00a077 years, the C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaches","category-compensation","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}