Fairfield Lake State Park is Gone
The special 3 person commission valued the 5,000 acres at $418.3 million.
I’m too angry to write more right now but the headline and subheading says it all.
We tried.
Right now we are waiting to see if the state will appeal the number because it sets a very disturbing precedent for eminent domain cases. Remember, the developer bought it for $103 million five months ago and has only destroyed the park and built some dirt roads. The land and lake sat for sale since 2018 for $110 million until last year when the developer began getting interested in the park. And recall, just two years prior to 2018, Luminant wanted all of their Freestone county property valued at $65 million.
Something is extremely rotten in Freestone County.
I’ll write more later this week when I can gather my thoughts.
You’ve fought so hard. I can’t imagine how devastated and angry you must feel. I don’t live in your community, or even in Texas, but things like this still hit home.
Every time I hear of sites that include native flora, animal and bird habitats being gobbled up by so called developers I feel sick for the loss and so ashamed of the humans who do such things. They will give you a slue of reasons of why this makes sense. But it really comes down to money. Money is a drug for some people. Once they get their hands on a big chunk of money, they want more and more. They never have enough. They will destroy anything that gets in their way of obtaining more money. They are not to be reasoned with any more than you might reason with a sidewinder.
Thank you for your effort to make people aware of this.