The battle over Fairfield Lake State Park's ownership continues... Todd Interests, which plans to turn the former park into a high-end subdivision, has a week left to respond to the state’s final offer for the property. via TexasTribune:
Construction continues at the former Fairfield Lake State Park property, which is embroiled in a battle between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the developer that bought the property., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
the 5,000-acre property and seize it through eminent domain — is still holding out hope that Todd Interests will agree to sell the land to the state despite months of unsuccessful negotiations. “I can't speak to what [Todd Interests is] thinking is at the moment, but I can say from our side that we would certainly like to come to an agreement and avoid having to move through that [court] process,” said Cory Chandler, the agency’s deputy communications director., TPWD said it sent Todd Interests two offer letters since commissioners gave the agency authority to use eminent domain. The final letter was sent Aug. 3, and the company had two weeks to respond.
Andrew Morriss, a Texas A&M law professor who specializes in eminent domain, said the first step would be a petition for condemnation filed in a Freestone County court, which would then appoint a panel of local landowners tasked with setting a fair market value for the property. The state would have to pay that amount for the land.“In this case, it’s definitely better to be Parks and Wildlife than the developer,” Morriss said.
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