Trial now set for April in high-profile showdown over San Mateo County coast
A beachcomber takes a walk at Martins Beach near Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015.
Jeffrey Essner, a San Jose attorney representing Khosla, did not respond to requests Friday for comment. The standoff began in 2008, when Khosla purchased 88 acres of coastal land along Highway 1 that surrounds the beach that had been used by families for generations for $32.5 million. Two years later, he locked the gates, hired guards and posted no trespassing signs.
The Coastal Commission told Khosla that he must apply for a permit to lock the gate. The Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit group, sued him over the issue. After he lost that case in the lower courts, he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the state’s landmark Coastal Act, approved by voters in 1972, was “Orwellian” and unconstitutional.
In the current lawsuit, the Coastal Commission and the State Lands Commission contend that generations of families who used the beach and the road leading to it before Khosla’s ownership guaranteed an irrevocable public right of access under long-established legal precedent that he cannot revoke. In that case, the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled that because beach-goers paid parking fees in the past to the property’s previous owner, a public right to the road had not been established.
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