My my is this still going on? The beach exclusion principles employed by Mr Khosla make him sound like a dick. Gareth Morgan tried something similar recently and it backfired, although he was only trying to raise awareness for the public effort to purchase the Abel Tasman, New Zealand beach for the public, which may have succeeded. His response was &quot;I will donate 600k if I can keep a private residence&quot;. 30M sounds like a lot of money for the right of access here. Not the California I remember. I am on the fence on this one, but think a solution should exist which respects both parties concerns and doesn&#x27;t cost either more than a million. It is not uncommon to restrict access to beaches via private land in New Zealand, but the neighbourly thing to do is come to some arrangement that is mutually beneficial, and I don&#x27;t know what the laws are with respect to trespass in California. If the property was to be developed by Mr Khosla and it was in New Zealand, the council would likely require a public access way to be gifted. As a pilot, devils advocate, not a lawyer, the first thing that springs to mind is can you legally land a helicopter or a drone on the beach to see what all the fuss is about? ;)