Is the road considered a “public thoroughfare”, meaning that the road is or was built or maintained by the city, county, state, etc. Or is it a private lane on private property and built/maintained by the property owner?
If there’s no easement or right of way there, then the only options are to purchase the right of way, or find another access route on public property.
The road was a long established as public access. Khosla claimed all access to the beach. Basically he wanted it to be a private beach. However the public easement was well established by at least 80 years and maybe even 100s of years of access. Khosla bought all the surrounding property, closed off access and hired some goons to run off the surfers and picnickers. Access to beaches is well established precedent in California, Khosla was just hoping he get his way. Unfortunately he neglected to appreciate the legal resources of the surfriders foundation...its not a vanilla property rights situation, article X of the state constitution asserts prior right. Khosla’s attorney tried to argue the property was founded in a Spanish land grant and couldn’t be superseded by the state constitution, but this didn’t carry as it had been a public access beach for many decades. The previous owners only charged for parking, not access, so beachgoers were not paying to access and the right was well established. And Khosla is a globalist d**k anyways, but of course that only established his motivation, not a his rights...
He has a locked gate, my guess is it is his or the govt would have had him take it down.
“the only options are to purchase the right of way, or find another access route on public property”
This is California - he will lose his property rights.