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Since the early 1900s, the Deeney family, the land owners, allowed the public free access to the beach, but charged to park vehicles. In the early 1920s, the
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Martins Beach is made up of two shallow coves surrounded by sheer and overhanging cliffs. The coves are divided by "Pelican Rock", a tall and sharply pointed rock cone surrounded by a narrow spit of tidepools. Once part of the
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declined to hear his appeal, but in 2019 an appeals court ruled that the former owners' permitting access had not established a right of public access. In 2020, the
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stands. Also included was paid parking by the highway. In the early 1990s, the
Deeneys took over management of the beach. They allowed use of the beach in exchange for a parking fee.
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In 2008, Vinod Khosla purchased the property adjacent to the beach, gated the single road running through it to the beach, and after 2010, prevented public access despite a
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In 2016 Khosla offered to sell a small slice of the property for a public beach path for $ 30 million, about as much as he spent on the entire property in 2008.
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judge's ruling that he must open the gate. Since then, there has been an ongoing legal battle to reopen the beach to the public under the legal theory of
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ban on taking of private property without "just compensation". The first lawsuit was brought in 2014 by the
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