Billionaire Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access
- Friends of Martin’s Beach asked court to keep coast open
- Ruling revives cause after Supreme Court refused to take it up
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Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s long-running fight to block public access to a stretch of Pacific Ocean beach adjacent to his property got new life thanks to an appeals court ruling that could make it harder for surfers and sun seekers to get to the crescent-shaped cove an hour south of San Francisco.
The beach had been open to the public for decades before Khosla bought the 89-acre property in 2008 for $32.5 million and shut off the lone road leading there.