Texas General Land Office and Jerry Patterson, in His Capacity as Texas Land Commissioner v. Sonya Porretto and Rosemarie Porretto

OPINION ON REHEARING

JANE BLAND, Justice.

A little more than fifty years ago, the Porretto family began acquiring tracts of beachfront property on Galveston Island, gulfward of the seawall. The family eventually came to own property along the shoreline between 6th and 27th Streets. They turned the property between 6th and 10th Streets into Porretto Beach and provided paid parking and concessions for beachgoers. They did not develop the tracts between 10th and 27th Streets, known as Porretto Beach West (PBW).

In 1994, the State, acting through the Texas General Land Office (GLO), leased the…