The DOT actually paid the Camerons about $16 million in 2008 after a jury ruled it was fair compensation for the state backtracking on a deal to allow access to more than 200 acres of the family's land from the parkway.</p><p>Cameron officials said at the time that the controlled access rendered the property, including the 35 acres now up for the city's consideration, useless.</p><p><a href=http: