WHAT Fairfield Lake State Park?

Todd Interests, taking a page from the playbook of Strangeabbott on the Rio Grande, has already started the bulldozers and earthmovers at the former Fairfield Lake State Park, apparently essentially daring the state to not only go ahead with an eminent domain lawsuit, but also to get injunctions issued to stop them.

Ain't happening, and this whole thing is a head fake on the part of the state, IMO, and the Trib agrees:

The agency has yet to file paperwork to initiate condemnation in court.

Remember, this isn't the only Tex-ass state park that's actually on private land. I blogged about this months ago. With Fairfield now former, and that ain't being reversed, there are still 14 others like it, I noted. That includes state parks near the Metromess like Ray Roberts and Joe Pool. Most are on the sites of former coal-fired power plants, and Texas Parks and Wildlife has done no more to acquire their land than it did Fairfield.

Update, Aug. 25: Not that this will affect TPWD's plans to head fake but actually do nothing about Fairfield Lake (or likely the other 14) but yesterday, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission officially adopted a policy limiting its eminent domain only to addressing issues like this. (Again, which it won't actually do.)

Update, Sept. 2: A week after that, TPWD has started the eminent domain process. They'll lose. Todd has already, as noted, started work, and therefore, their "fair value" now has been hugely reset. It ain't $103 million now; it's Todd's expected 30-year or whatever value on that as a development.