After years of negotiations, a developer hoping to build estates on an old San Joaquin River golf property will cede some of the land to build a public path for people to access the water.
In a deal reached last month, Fig Garden Investments, which bought the shuttered Fig Garden Golf Course in 2019, agreed to allow the creation of a 50-foot-wide easement along the property’s northern edge, near the river. The roughly 4,696-foot-long path will connect to Van Ness Road and “open to the public immediately,” the agreement says.
The firm will also pay $451,980 to the State Land Commission’s Kapiloff Land Bank Fund as part of the deal. The state fund helps provide public access to lands managed by the commission, according to its website…