Baymen’s townships gamed park statutes to exclude city visitors from the beaches

Evidence

And to keep such intruders away, their township boards had created, on every piece of publicly owned waterfront property that might conceivably attract visitors from the city, “parks” whose exclusive use was by statute reserved to township residents. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 647

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘park exclusion’ as a legal gadget — reserving public land to locals by statute, a lesser-known precursor to modern residential-exclusion and parking-permit tactics.