The ownership of a piece of coastal land in Daly City is rather complicated, as it turns out, and convicted local art scammer Luke Brugnara was not being entirely dishonest in his (at least partial) claim to the land.
When we relayed the story last week about the connection between noted local real estate invester and convicted art fraudster Luke Brugnara and a previous report about a mysterious fence that had gone up on a bluff in Daly City adjacent to Thonrton State Beach, we noted some conflicting information.
Initially, San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa was saying that the person who put up the fench, Brugnara, had bought the property last fall, but that the fence was nonetheless illegal and blocking a longtime public right-of-way to the beach.
Then the Chronicle got in touch with a woman from Santa Cruz, Donna Pope, who claimed that the land had belonged to her family for…
