It’s a simple easement issue. If he wanted to create a new path for he public to access the beach, then nobody would care if he closed this one. It’s not as if

It’s a simple easement issue. If he wanted to create a new path for he public to access the beach, then nobody would care if he closed this one. It’s not as if this was an after-the-fact decision, the public access path existed when he bought the property, as did the existing law and state constitution. His responsibility as a property owner there is to maintain that public access.