[Redbob]

You want to make a park?

Buy the land.

How would you like it if for example, the law was amended to read that "backyards belong to all the people of Texas"?
Can I come over Sunday and have a picnic in your backyard?
You won't mind cleaning up afterwards, will you?

Or how about rivers and riverbanks? Don't you think that rivers and their banks should belong to all the people of Texas?
Well, you might have a slightly different view if you happened to own some property in the Hill Country, and you wanted to prevent drunk, rowdy tubers and canoers from trashing your waterfront and perhaps tearing up your property, while serenading your family with their boomboxes and profanity.

But no, what YOU want is to take the use of someone else's property, or rather, have the State do it for you, without compensating the landowners.
How very Socialistic of you.

[tx4guns]

The state isn't taking anything. It already belongs to the state. The homeowners built the homes knowing the law (they're required to sign a waiver form that they understand the Open Beaches Act when they close on the propery), but now they want private beaches and to take it away from access to the public. Same for riverfront owners. The toobers have always been there, like it or not. It's part of the territory.

I question the sanity of someone who builds a house on the beach or on a riverbank anyway. How careless and foolish can you be with your money?