How many people are going to lose their land and homes if the state passes legislation that allows the park to remain open? Are there generations who grew up cultivating the land, tending to pets and livestock, raising children, and living in family homesteads all around Lake Fairfield, folks who will now be uprooted because the state is taking their property from them?

No, all of these homes and all this property are concepts right now, geographic shapes on a topo map. Break into singing Rain On The Scarecrow if it makes you feel better, but no one is having his home stolen by the state. The people who might have eventually lived there don't even know they may have lived there yet.

and you don't see the difference or you would not have posted this rubbish.

If a need exists for the state to buy property they can buy up land or use emininent domain to force a sale.
Here we have a law being passed to keep the owners from operating their property and forces them to use it as if the state owned it.

Bottom line is they had their chance. There is not one thing that kept them from bidding on it when it was up for sale. They waited until it sold and people protested so big brother was forced to enact a new law that makes the properties value drop off the charts.

My post above about people reaching? That is you.

Good to hear that you’re not a pice of [censored] you’re just an idiot. It’s amazing how some of y’all see this as black and white, nothing is black and white these days.

The government stole your tax dollars for your entire life without your consent then they put some of that money into an investment for the TAX payers and now it’s being taken away from you…… but you wanna talk about how the state forcing the owners to sell the land to them is “stealing”.

Was it stupid for the government to do that with your money? Investing it into something they never owned. Yes of course it was stupid. The government is filled to the brim with stupid people doing stupid stuff. But instead of correcting this issue you would rather them let it get sold and turned into something that most of us will be never be able to use again. Why would you want that? You want the tax payers to be punished because of the governments stupidity? For what purpose? Just so you can feel good that the government didn’t “steal” the big guys investment property…..

There is no “public need” for recreational activities. What does eminent domain have to do with the bill being discussed?
Where do you see the state tried to buy the property? How much did the state offer?

The state agency said state lawmakers “strongly” support helping it acquire the land that is now Fairfield Lake State Park. It said fnds now available from the constitutional amendment dedicating sporting goods sales tax to support state parks could be tapped to make the land purchase, along with federal land and water conservation funds.

”Today’s heartbreaking announcement of the closing of Fairfield Lake State Park is a tremendous loss for Freestone County and all Texans who enjoy our state’s unique parklands,” said State Sen. Charles Schwertner. “It is unfortunate that Vistra and this private developer were unable to come to an agreement that would have allowed the state of Texas to purchase the park from Vistra to maintain it for future generations of Texans.”

TPWD said it will continue to work to buy, and potentially, expand the park, but make it clear the new owner does not intend to use the property as a state park.

It is black and white. The bill introduced is a direct attack on private property rights. It’s pathetic that it would pass and have support in a conservative state. Private property rights are fundamental rights, without them we have nothing. This should scare the [censored] out of y’all, instead you have a bunch of hillbilly [censored] fishermen cheering for massive government overreach so they can keep fishing a lake that they have no rights to.