Texas will make the drastic move to use eminent domain to seize a popular state park south of Dallas at the center of a monthslong battle between the state and a private developer.
It also brought to the forefront concerns over landowner rights. Aplin and other commissioners assured property owners that Saturday’s vote to use eminent domain would not set a precedent. Parks officials are developing a written policy to restrict the agency’s use of eminent domain to “extraordinary and unusual situations.”
Several commissioners said they were loath to use eminent domain, but that Fairfield Lake posed an unprecedented challenge. Drawing roughly 80,000 visitors a year, the park offers miles of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding, but its biggest draw is catfish and bass fishing. , a move environmentalists argued would devastate the lake and that worried residents in Freestone County.
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