With the help of $500 million more from partners like Beartooth Capital, the group has bought or obtained easements on more than a million acres of land.
You obtained easements to transform it into a private club; open to members since 1985, it sports more gold than ever (including a new 20,000 square foot ballroom decorated with millions of dollars of gold leaf).
Mr. King said today that the state would instead obtain easements to the two parcels offered by Sappi.
After the Hodgsons' deaths, their children protected the house from alteration or demolition, obtaining easements from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the organization to which Johnson gave the Glass House.
In that deed, Mr. Saint, in essence, obtained an easement from the state allowing him to proceed with the project and to operate the museum, an easement that some say supersedes local zoning laws in Litchfield.
It is easier, she said, to become a co-op marina, with a corporation owning or leasing a strip of land, obtaining an easement for use of the water and selling shares to use the docks.
The absence of a nexus left the Coastal Commission in the position of simply trying to obtain an easement through gimmickry, which converted a valid regulation of land use into "an out and out plan of extortion". Ibid., quoting J. E. D. Associates, Inc. v. Atkinson, 121 N. H. 581, 584, 432 A. 2d 12, 14-19811981).
The Coastal Commission contends that by using the road for decades, the public obtained a "prescriptive easement" on the property — and that Khosla was well aware of that easement when he bought the land.
The agency hopes to obtain land easements for the remaining 500 acres.
"We don't need a presidential permit in order for us to obtain the easements that we need for the right of way for this project," says TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha.
The last place on the Army Corps' list is a stretch of Deal, where the state has not obtained the necessary easements.
