California tells ranch owners, 'Your land is our land' Lawsuit challenges lawmakers' plan to simply

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California tells ranch owners, 'Your land is our land'
Lawsuit challenges lawmakers' plan to simply take private property
WND Staff By WND Staff
Published January 18, 2020 at 12:53pm


The owners of the exotic 14,400-acre Hollister Ranch on the coast of California are suing the state for a host of alleged constitutional violations after lawmakers adopted a statute that gives the state free access to the land.

Further, the lawmakers are claiming the right to punish anyone who "obstructs" or "impedes" that access.

The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the complaint in U.S. District Court for the Central District.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/california-tells-ranch-owners-land-land/

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Explained PLF: "The law at issue, AB 1680, calls for an update to older state plans to create a public access way on private land on the 14,400-acre Hollister Ranch, which borders the Pacific coast. This general goal represents an outgrowth of 2018 legislation vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown, who recommended a sensible and fiscally responsible Ranch access update. Hollister Ranch did not oppose early versions of AB 1680 that sought to encourage an expanded public access plan and that set out reasonable deadlines for action."

However, lawmakers amended the bill with "unexpected provisions that represent an overreach of the state's authority."

The provisions also "run afoul of constitutional protections of due process and free speech and constitutional prohibitions of illegal search and seizure and the taking of private property without compensation," PLF said.

For example, the state lawmakers approved allowing state agencies "to enter Hollister Ranch and to search and use all common areas, including those with employee housing, barns, and other structures, for the purpose of gathering data to be used to create public access across ranch lands."

AB 1680 was signed into law in October, 2019. The California Coastal Commission was a monstrosity created some 50 years ago at the Enviros' behest. It needs to be gutted, flayed, and incinerated, IMO. The Pacific Legal Foundation had decades of experience and success in fighting the CCC's tyranny.