Week 14 RT Flashcards
Taken advantage of the practice essays and self-assessing and going through the rubric and say it in this way and if you didn’t, going back and studying and trying to write it out again. Rubrics are unique and tell you the fastest way to explain the rules. A whole lot of words to say what I have said in less than a paragraph on a rubric. Rubrics help you succinctly state what you need to. !!
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Zoning triage for change of use
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- see if it is a non-conforming use.
Zoning triage for change of use
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- Are the rights vested?
Zoning triage for change of use
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- Try to get a use variance
If someone is wanting to change a use see if it is non-conforming use, or then vested rights, or try for a use variance.
How do you get a use variance?
Undue Hardship Test: no other reasonable use to which the property can be put.
Effect of notice of the applicable regulation prior to acquiring the property
What case?
Palazzolo
Money damage remedy in takings cases
What case?
First English
Imposing a moratorium, and broadened analysis of the “property as a whole” rule
What case?
Tahoe Sierra
Exactions
What case?
Nolan and Dolan
Hadacheck Rule:
A regulation that prevents a common law nuisance is NOT a taking.
Hadacheck Rule: A regulation that prevents a common law nuisance is NOT a taking. If it does not prevent a common law nuisance, what do you do?
move forward with takings analysis
Mahon:
The general rule is that property can be regulated to a certain extent, but if the regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
We need to find out if the regulation went too far.
What case does this rule come from?
Mahon
First Categorical Rule: Loretto:
A permanent Physical occupation which has been caused or authorized by the regulation, it will be deemed a taking.
Second Categorical Rule: Lucas:
Where a regulation denies all economically beneficial or productive use of land, it will be recognized as a taking.
_______ the 100% rule. If somebody has lost 99% of the value of their property it is not a Lucas taking. It may have a great case for a _____ _______ taking.
Lucas
Penn Central
Exceptions or Defenses to the categorical taking rules:
Loretto: ?
Lucas:
The Loretto does not apply if the government is merely asserting a permanent easement that was a pre-existing limitation upon the landowners title to the property.
Exceptions or Defenses to the categorical taking rules:
Loretto:
Lucas: ?
Lucas: The Lucas rule does not apply if there is a Hadacheck situation.
Even if you have lost 100% of the value of your property if it was to prevent a common law nuisance you cannot recover.
Penn Central Balancing Test:
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- The Character of the governmental Action
- The economic effect of the regulation on the claimant
- The extent to which the regulation interfered with distinct investment-backed expectations.
Penn Central Balancing Test:
(1) The Character of the Governmental Action
What does this mean?
Was there a physical invasion?
Did the government act cause a physical invasion? Actual Tangible thing on your land.
Pen Central Balancing Test:
(2) The economic effect of the regulation on the claimant.
What does this mean?
(1) Before and After Test: value of the property before the government act and the value after.
(2) Property as a Whole Analysis: We do not divide a single parcel into discrete segments and attempt to determine whether the rights in a particular segment have been entirely abrogated. We have to consider the value of the parcel as a whole.
What is the property as a whole analysis you keep forgetting?
We have to consider the value of the parcel as a whole.
Penn Central Balancing Test:
(3) The extent to which the regulation interferes with distinct investment-backed expectations.
What does this mean?
How is the regulation going to impact future development? Are we discouraging this by allowing this governmental act to go uncompensated. How does it affect this particular community? New York city – land preservation act – may think about it from standpoint of the plaintiff. Palazzolo knew they couldn’t build there when they acquired the property, but they wanted to complain about it later. Did you have an expectation that you could build there if the law said you couldn’t probably not. Big picture community as a whole or zoom in standpoint of the plaintiff. Test used in 99% of the taking’s cases.
Likely you will have to do a Penn central analysis. Take the time to learn this test and how to define it and practice applying it. !!
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