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Post Office Box 3273 • 357 Tequesta Drive
Tequesta, Florida 33469-0273 • (407) 575-6200
FAX: (407) 575-6203
MEMORANDUM:
TO: Village Council
FROM: Thomas G. Bradford
DATE: June 7, 1990
SUBJECT: Proposed Master Plan Action Plan
Appearing below, please find a proposed action plan to serve
as a guide as we proceed toward resolution of the future of the
Master Plan area.
1-1-90 to
9-1-90 Develop zoning and site regulations to implement Master
Plan.
Options:
o Incentive Zoning
o Modify existing zoning regulations
o Create new zoning regulations per the Master Plan
o Other
6-1-90 to
7-15-90 Prepare a sketch plan indicating alternatives to the
Master Plan based on input from property owners
including roadway locations, public building locations
(library site) and public parking areas.
6-14-90 Village Council authorization of a letter expressing
interest to the Northern Palm Beach County Water
Control District to include the Master Plan area within
their Unit of Development. This would begin the
NPBCWCD process. See attached NPBCWCD process pert
chart.
6-14-90 to
7-31-90 Begin consultations with Village Attorneys regarding
condemnation alternatives, reviewing Community
Redevelopment Agency or other appropriate municipal
powers.
6-14-90 Ascertain extent of engineering, surveying, and mapping
for creation of Right -of -Way Protection Ordinance.
Memorandum: Village Council
June 7, 1990
Page - 2
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7-21-90 Conduct staff meeting with Image Network to review
matters prior to possible mini-charrette.
8-1-90 Consider holding mini-charrette in Coral Gables with
Image Network, assuming Village Council acceptance of
action plan.
8-1-90 Complete draft Right -of -Way Protection Ordinance.
8-14-90 Finalize Right -of -Way Protection Ordinance per any mini-
charrette changes, as necessary.
8-23-90 First Reading of Right -of -Way Protection Ordinance.
9-1-90 Completion of draft Zoning Ordinance to implement
Master Plan.
9-13-90 Second and Final Reading of Proposed Right -of -Way
Protection Ordinance.
9-13-90 First Reading of Proposed Zoning Ordinance implementing
Master Plan.
9-27-90 Second Reading of Zoning Ordinance implementing Master
Plan.
9-27-90 Approval of motion of Village Council lifting Zoning in
Progress.
9-27-90 Village Council authorization to execute Agreements to
initiate preliminary engineering and planning for
infrastructure to be provided by NPBCWCD. Upon
execution of such Agreements, infrastructure
development would be handled by NPBCWCD with new
development approvals controlled by the Village
Council.
TGB/ jmm
cc: Jack L. Horniman, Planning Consultant
John C. Randolph, Village Attorney
Wendy K. Harrison, Administrative Assistant
to the Village Manager
Richard Staudinger, P.E., Gee & Jenson
Scott D. Ladd, Building Official
Pete Pimentel, Executive Director, NPBCWCD
Jaime Correa, Image Network
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Mr. Thomas G. Bradford
Village Manager
Village of Tequesta
Post Office Box 3273
Tequesta, Florida 33469
RE: Joint Ventures, Inc. vs Dept. of Transportation,
15 FLW S246 (Case No. 71,878 April 26, 1990)
Our File No. 13153.1
Dear Tom:
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R BRUCE JONES
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HENRY F LRANTHAL
I9W-1962
HARRY ALLISON JOHNSTON
1896.11163
RETIRED
WILL" A. FOSTER
OTHER LOCATION
54 N E FOURTH AVE
DELRAY BEACH. FLORIDA 33463
Pursuant to your request, enclosed please find a copy of Join
Ventures Inc vs Department of Transportation, 15 FLW S246 (Case
No. 71,878 April 26, 1990), which has recently been decided by the
Florida Supreme Court.
In Joint Ventures, the Florida Supreme Court determined that
Sections 337.241(2) and (3), Florida Statutes (1987),
unconstitutionally permitted the state to take private property
without just compensation. Section 337.241(1), Florida Statutes,
permits the Department of Transportation (DOT) to acquire rights -
of -way by preparing and recording maps of reservation which
delineate the limits of proposed rights -of -way for the eventual
widening of roads.
Section 337.241(2), Florida Statutes, provided in pertinent part
that 11(u]pon recording the map of reservation, such map shall
establish
(a) a building setback line from the centerline of any
road existing as of the date of such recording; and no
development permits . . . shall be granted by any
governmental entity . . .
Mr. Thomas G. Bradford
August 28, 1990
Page 2
(b) an area of proposed road construction within which
development permits . . . shall not be issued for a
period of five (5) years from the date of recording such
map . . . to
In 1985, DOT recorded a map of reservation in accordance with the
statute. The First District Court of Appeal in Joint Ventures
agreed with the DOT who contended that the legislature did not
"take" the property by virtue of Section 337.241, but merely
regulated the property as a valid exercise of its police power.
The First District Court of Appeal concluded that the challenged
subsections were constitutional because Joint Ventures had a remedy
by way of an action for inverse condemnation.
The state is required to compensate property owners under two
circumstances. The state must pay when it confiscates private
property for common use under its power of eminent domain. The
state must also pay when it regulates private property under its
police power in such a manner that the regulation effectively
deprives the owner of the economically viable use of that property.
Eminent domain involves the "taking" of property because of its
need for the public use while regulating private property under
its police power is to prevent use of the property in a manner that
is detrimental to the public interest. Although regulation under
such police power will always interfere to some degree with the
property use, compensation must be paid only when that interference
deprives the owner of substantial economic use of his or her
property.
The Florida Supreme Court in Joint Ventures determined that the
statute's purpose was not to prevent an injurious use of private
property, but to reduce the cost of acquisition of property should
the state later decide to condemn such property. Joint Ventures 15
FLW at S247. The court perceived no valid distinction between
"freezing" property in this fashion and deliberately attempting to
depress land values in anticipation of an eminent domain
proceeding, which has consistently been prohibited. 1-�L:
The court in Joint Ventures also determined that the potential for
an action for inverse condemnation was not an adequate remedy since
that remedy affords the affected property owner an after -the -fact
remedy where there has already been a taking by regulation. Joint
Ventures, 15 FLW S247-248. Inverse condemnation is not a
substitute for eminent domain protection facilitated by Chapters 73
and 74.
As you can see, the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Joint
Ventures provides law that is contrary to the Village's intent to
Mr. Thomas G. Bradford
August 28, 1990
Page 3
reserve rights -of -way to implement its Master Plan. Due to this
recent decision, it may be necessary for the Village Council to
reassess how it will proceed with the Master Plan.
Sincerely,
JONES, FOSTER, JOHNSTON & STUBBS, P.A.
Pamela A. McNierney
PAM/ss
15 FLW S246 _ SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA April 27, 1990
time sufficiency is declared by ARPC.
(3) This fee deposit shall set up an account for the applicant with
the Council. The Council shall keep accurate records of the actual
costs which shall be deducted from the deposit fee, with arty amount
remaining refunded to the applicant. If the coat of the review exceeds
the fee deposit, the applicant shall be liable to the Council for 100
percent of the review costs.
(4) No foes or costs are required of an applicant for the initial pre -
application conference required by 380.06(7). Further pre -application
assistance shall he provided at the applicant's request. Charges for
this assistance will be based upon reasonable fees for professional
services and mats incurred. A deposit shall be required.
'Suction 380D6(23)(d), Florida Statutes (1989), provides:
(d) Regional planning agencies which perform development -of -
regional -impact and Florida Quality Development review are
authorized to assess and collect fees to fund the costs, direct and
indirect, of conducting the review process. The state land planning
agency shall adapt rules to provide uniform criteria for the assessment
and collection of such fees. The rules providing uniform criteria shall
not be subject to rule challenge under s. 1220.54(4) or to drawout
proceedings under s. 120.54(17), but, once adopted, shall be subject
to an invalidity challenge under s. 120.56 by substantially'atTecLed
persons. Until the state land planning agency adopts a rule
implementing this paragraph, rules of the regional planning councils
currently in effect regarding teas shall remain in effect. Fees may vary
in relation to the type and size of a proposed project, but shall not
exceed S75;0W, unless the state land planning agency, after reviewing
any disputed expenses charged by the regional planning agency,
determines that said expenses were reasonable and necessary for an
adequate regional review of the impacts of a project. Regional planning
agencies shall not collect fees from an applicant to fund the cost of
appeals filed pursuant to s. 380D7.
Administrative law —Department of Transportation —Statute
prohibiting issuance of development permits for period of up to
ten years for new construction on property which was encom-
passed in DOT map of reservation —Statute unconstitutionally
permits state to take private property without compensa-
tion —Statute is not an appropriate regulation under the state's
police powers but is merely an attempt to circumvent constitu-
tional and statutory protections afforded private property own-
ership under the principles of eminent domain —State may not
use its police power to deliberately restrict land use before the
commencement of condemnation proceedings without the duty of
compensation —Fact that property owner has remedy by way of
action for inverse condemnation does not cure statute's failure to
expressly provide for compensation —Remedy through inverse
condemnation is not equivalent to property owner's remedy
under doctrine of eminent domain
JOINT VENTURES, INC., Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPOR-
TATION, etc., Respondent. Supreme Court of Florida. Case No. 71,878. April
26, 1990. Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Ap-
peal —Certified Great Public Imporunce. First District —Case No. BN-310. S.
Cary Gaylord and Alan E. DeSerio of Brigham, Moore, Gaylor, Wilson,
Ulmer, Schuster de Sachs, Tampa, Florida, for Petitioner. Maxine F. Ferguson,
E Appellate Attorney and Thomas H. Bateman, 111, General Counsel, Department
! of Transportation, Tallahassee, Florida, for Respondent.
s(BARKETT, J.) We have for review Joint Ventures, Inc. v. De-
partment of Transportation, 519 So.2d 1069 (Fla. 1st DCA
i 1988), in which the district court asked in a certified question
k whether subsections 337.241(2) and (3), Florida Statutes (1987),
unconstitutionally permit the state to take private property with-
out just compensation.I We answer the question in the afftrma-
Live, finding those subsections invalid as a violation of the fifth
amendment to the United States Constitution and article X, sec-
tion 6(a) of the Florida Constitution.
Joint Ventures, Inc., owned 8.3 acres of vacant land located
adjacent to Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. Joint Ventures had
contracted to sell this property contingent upon the buyer's ability
to obtain the permits necessary to develop it. Thereafter, the
Department of Transportation (DCJT) determined that 6.49 acres
of this vacant land was needed for storm water drainage associat-
ed with the planned widening of the highway. In November 1985,
DOT recorded a map of reservation in accordance with subsec-
tion 337.241(1), Florida Statutes (1987).= DOT's recordation of
the map of reservation precluded the issuance of development
permits for this property under subsection 337.241(2):
Upon recording [the map of reservation], such map shall
establish:
(a) A building setback line from the centerline of any road
existing as of the date of such recording; and no development
permits, as defined in s. 380.031(4),I'l shall be granted by any
governmental entity for new construction of any type or for
renovation of an existing commercial structure that exceeds
20 percent of the appraised value of the structure. No restric-
tion shall be placed on the renovation or improvement of
existing residential structures, as long as such structures
continue to be used as private residences.
(b) An area of proposed road construction within which
development permits, as defined in s. 380.031(4), shall not be
issued for a period of 5 years from the date of recording such
map. The 5-year period rrwy be extended for an additional
5-year period by the same procedure set forth in subsection
(1) -
(Emphasis supplied.)
Joint Ventures contested DOT's reservation in an administra-
tive hearing pursuant to subsection 337.241(3).' The heanng
officer found against Joint Ventures and DOT later adopted the
officer's findings and conclusions in a Final Order. On appeal to
the district court, Joint Ventures argued that the moratorium
imposed by section 337.241(2) amounted to a taking because the
statute deprived it of substantial beneficial use of its property.
In opposition, DOT contended that the legislature did not
"take" but merely "regulated" in a valid exercise of the police
power. The distract court concluded that the challenged subsec-
tions were constitutional because Joint Ventures had a remedy by
way of an action for inverse condemnation.'
Generally, the state must pay property owners under two cir-
cumstances. First, the state must pay when it confiscates private
property for common use under its power of eminent domain.
Second, the state must pay when it regulates private property
under its police power in such a manner that the regulation effec-
tively deprives the owner of the economically viable use of that
property," thereby unfairly imposing the burden of providing for
the public welfare upon the affected o•.vner.'
Under the power of eminent domain, the state has the inherent
nght to take private property for public use without the consent of
the owner. Shavers v. Duval Counry, 73 So.2d 684, 688 (Fla.
1954). In so doing, the state is obliged to make full compensa-
tions Indeed, the Florida Legislature has implemented a com-
plete statutory scheme in chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes
(1987), to assure the payment of such compensation.
However, as Justice Holmes recognized, the "seemingly abso-
lute protection" of required compensation is "qualified" by an-
other inherent power of the state, the police power. Pennsylvania
Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393, 415 (1922). Although both
powers impact on pnvate property, there is a distinction between
the power of eminent domain and the police power:
[T)he former involves the taking of property because of its
need for the public use while the latter involves the regulation
of such property to prevent its use thereof in a manner that is
detrimental to the public interest.
J. Sackman, Nichols' Tire Law of Eminent Domain d 1.47_ 21
April 27, 1990
SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
1-133 to 1-134 (rev. 3rd ed. 1988) (footnotes omitted, emphasis
in original).
Although regulation under the police power will always inter-
fere to some degree with property use, compensation must be paid
only when that interference deprives the owner of substantial
economic use of his or her property. In effect, this deprivation has
been deemed a "taking."Agin v. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255,
260 (1980); Penn Cent. Transp. Co. v. City of .Vew York, 438
U.S. 104, 138 n.36 (1978). Thus, when compensation is claimed
due to governmental regulation of property, the appropnate
inquiry is directed to the extent of the interference or deprivation
of economic use.
Here, however, we do not deal with a claim for compensation,
but with a constitutional challenge to the statutory mechanism.
Our inquiry requires that we determine whether the statute is an
appropriate regulation under the police power, as DOT asserts, or
whether the statute is merely an attempt to circumvent the consti-
tutional and statutory protections afforded private property own-
ership under the principles of eminent domain.
Under its police power, the state is deemed to enact laws for
the protection of the general welfare, that is, the public safety,
health, morals, comfort, and general well being. Hav-A-Tampa
Cigar Co. v. Johnson, 149 Fla. 148, 159, 5 So.2d 433, 437
(1941).9 In the broad sense, when the state "takes" property,
whether through its police power or power of eminent domain, it
does so to promote the general welfare. Analytically, the two
have been discussed in different terms. Regulation is analyzed in
terms of the exercise of police power, whereas acquisition is
analyzed in terms of the state's power of eminent domain.10 First
English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles,
` 107 S. Ct. 2378, 2389 (1987); Agin, 447 U.S. at 260; Penn Cent.
Transp. Co., 438 U.S. at 136; Pennsylvania Coal Co., 260 U.S.
at 413; art. X, § 6(a), Fla. Const.
In this case, DOT suggests that section 337.241 is a perrrtissi-
ble regulatory exercise of the state's police power because it was
necessary for various economic reasons. For example, without a
development moratorium, land acquisition costs could become
financially infeasible. If landowners were permitted to build in a
transportation corridor dunng the penod of DOT's preacquisition
planning, the cost of acquisition night be increased. Rather than
supporting a "regulatory" characterization, these circumstances
expose the statutory scheme as a thinly veiled attempt to
"acquire" land by avoiding the legislatively mandated procedural
and substantive protections of chapters 73 and 74.
We find analogous the distinction drawn by the court in San
Antonio River Authoriry v. Garrett Brothers, 528 S.W.2d 266,
273-74 (Tex. Ct. App. 1975):
Illn exercising the police power, the governmental agency is
acting as an arbiter of disputes among groups and individuals
for the purpose of resolving conflicts among competing inter-
ests. This is the role in which government acts when it adopts
zoning ordinances, enacts health measures, adopts building
codes, abates nuisances, or adopts a host of other regulations.
. But where the purpose of the governmental action is the
prevention of development of land that would increase the
cost of a planned future acquisition of such land by govern-
ment, the situation is patently different. Where government
acts in this context, it can no longer pretend to be acting as a t
neutral arbiter. It is no longer an impartial weigher of the
merits of competing interest among its citizens. Instead, it has
placed a heavy governmental thumb on the scales to insure c
that in the forthcoming dispute between it and one, or more,
of its citizens, the scales will tip in its own favor. . To
permit government, as a prospective purchaser of land, to
give itself such an advantage is clean e
g y inconsistent with the
15 FLW S247
doctrine that the cost of community benefits should be distrib-
uted impartially among members of the community.
Indeed, the legislative staff analysis candidly indicates that the
statute's purpose is not to prevent an inj.unous use of private prop-
erty, but rather to reduce the cost of acquisition should the state
later decide to condemn the property. Staff of Fla. H.R. Comm.
on Transp., H.B. 314 (1985) Staff Analysis (March 25, 1985).
We perceive no valid distinction between "freezing" property
in this fashion and deliberately attempting to depress land values
in anticipation of eminent domain proceedings. Such action has
been consistently prohibited. Board of Commis v. Tallahassee
Bank & Trust Co., 108 So.2d 74, 86 (Fla. 1 st DCA 1958), writ
quashed, 116 So.2d 762 (Fla. 1959). Accord Kissinger v. City of
Los Angeles, 161 Cal. App.2d 454, 462, 327 P.2d 10, 16 (1958);
Robyn v. City of Dearborn, 341 Mich. 495, 499, 67 N. W.2d
718, 720 (1954); Long v. City of Highland Park, 329 Mich. 146,
153, 45 N.W.2d 10, 13 (1950); Grand Trunk W. R. R. Co. v. Ciry
of Detroit, 326 Mich. 387, 396-97, 40 N. W.2d 195, 199 (1949);
State ex rel. Tingley v. Gurda, 209 Wis. 63, 70, 243 N.W. 317,
320 (1932).
We do not question the reasonableness of the state's goal to
facilitate the general welfare. Rather we are concerned here with
the means by which the legislature attempts to achieve that goal.
Here, the means are not consistent with the constitution. We
acknowledge that the state may properly attempt to economize the
expenditure of public funds. As DOT notes, in Department of
Transportation v. Fortune Federal Savings and Loan Associa-
tion, 532 So.2d 1267 (Fla. 1988), we considered whether the state
constitutionally could condemn an entire parcel when it required
only a portion of the parcel. There was no constitutional violation
when the state, acting pt rsuant to statute, a;,tually spent less by
condemning the entire parcel than it would have spent by con-
demning only the required portion. In Fortune Federal, the state
sought to economize in a legitimate fashion after it had com-
menced condemnation proceedings through its power of eminent
domain. It would be an unwarranted extension of Fortune Federal
to conclude that the state may deliberately restrict land use under
its police power before the commencement of condemnation
proceedings without the duty of compensation. The state may not
use its police power in such a manner. Board of Commis. Accord
Kissinger; Robyn; Long; Gratin Trunk W. R. R. Co.; State ex rel.
Tingley. Fortune Federal is inapposite in this context.
We are also unpersuaded by DOT's reliance upon Southern
Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State ez rel. Ervin, 75 So.2d
796 (Fla. 1954). There, Southern Bell contended that the cost of
removing and relocating its equipment made necessary by a high-
way expansion project ought to be borne by the State Road De-
partment. The Court noted that the influx of automobiles in this
country "makes safe, adequate highways ... one of the clearest
fields for the exercise of the police power." Id. at 799. No one
disputes that the state may exercise its power to achieve highway
safety. Here, however, the state exercised its police power with a
mind toward property acquisition. Assuring highway safety and
acquiring land for highway construction are discrete state func-
tions.
DOT contends that Joint Ventures' right to seek compensation
hrough inverse condemnation cures the statute's failure to ex-
pressly provide for compensation. We disagree. Although the
right to seek relief through inverse condemnation is implied in the
onstitutioa and a compensation provision need not be expressly
included for an owner to be entitled to such compensation, see
First English," that remedy is not equivalent to a property own-
r's remedy under the doctrine of eminent domain. Inverse con-
vs, Ft.vAIVA April 27, 1"
demnation affords the affected property owner an after -the -fact
rely, when there has already been a "taking" by regulation,12
and it is not a substitute for eminent domain protection facilitated
by chapters 73 and 74.
The property owner who must resort to inverse condemnation
is not on equal footing with an owner whose land is "taken"
through formal condemnation proceedings. The former has the
burden of seeking compensation, must initiate the inverse con-
demnation suit," and must finance the costs of litigation without
the procedural protections afforded the condemnoe. In State Road
Department v. Forehand, 56 So.2d 901, 903 (Fla. 1952), the
Court considered the due process requirements of the state's
summary method of securing possession of property pending
condemnation proceedings:
Notice to the parties, the appointment of appraisers, the
submission of testimony, the right to be represented by coun-
sel and a determination by the court of whether or not these
things have been done are all required before possession of
the land is turned over to the petitioner, including a deposit in
the registry of the court of no less than twice its appraised
value.
See also United States v. Clarke, 445 U.S. 253, 255 (1980) (rec-
ognizing that important legal and practical differences exist be-
tween the two proceedings); Department of Transp. v. Grossman,
536 So.2d 1181 (Fla. 3d DCA) (the condemnor, not the landown-
er, has the burden to proceed under chapter 74), review denied,
545 So.2d 1366 (Fla. 1989).
DOT's claim that subsection 337.241(3) is a procedural cure
for the shortcomings of subsection 337.241(2) is unavailing.
Subsection (3) merely enables a property owner to challenge a
regulation as an unreasonable or arbitrary exercise of police
power. A reasonable regulation may, however, amount to a "tak-
ing. "Pennsylvania Coal Co., 260 U.S. at 393 (cited with approv-
al in Department of Agrie. do Consumer Servs, v. Mid -Florida
Growers, Inc., 521 So.2d 101, 103 (Fla. 1988)), Under these
circumstances the remedial protections of subsection 337.241(3)
are illusory.
Accordingly, we answer the certified question in the affirma-
tive and quash the opinion of the district court.
It is so ordered. (SHAW, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., Concur.
EHRLICH, C.J., Dissents with an opinion, in which OVERTON
and McDONALD, JJ., Concur.)
'The question which the district court certified to be of great public impor-
tance is:
Whether subsections 337.241(2) and (3) are unconstitutional in that they
Provide for an impermissible taking of property without just compensa-
tion and deny equal protection and due process in failing to provide an
adequate remedy.
'oint Ventures, Inc. v. Department ofTransp., 519 So.2d 1069, 1072 (Fla. lu
-)CA 199S). We have discretionary jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const.
'Subwction337.241(1), Florida Statutes (1987). provides in part:
The department ... shall acquire all rights -of -way and may prepare and
record snaps of reservation for any road within its jurisdiction .... Any
such maps shalt delineate the limits of proposed rights -of -way for the
eventual widening of an existing road ... .
'A development permit 'includes any building permit, zoning permit, plat
pproval. or rezoning, certification, variance, or other action having the effect
f permining development as defined in this chapter." § 380-031(4), Fiji. Stet.
1987).
'Subsection 337.241(3), Florida Statutes (1987), provides in part:
Upon petition by an affected property owner alleging that such property
regulation is unreasonable or arbitrary and that its effect is to deny a
subsuraW portion of the beneficial use of such property, the department
• .. shall hold an administrative hearing in accordance with the provi-
sions of chapter 120. When such a hearing results in an order finding in
favor a the petitioning property owner, the department .. ,shall have
180 drys from the date of such order to acquire such property or file
appropriate proceedings. Appellate review by either party may be ream-
ed to, but such review will not affect the 180-day limitation when such
appeal is taken by the department ... unless execution of such order is
rayed by the appellate court having jurisdiction.
'During the pendency of that appeal, DOT condemned the land, and th,
parties entered into a monetary settlement. The district court decided that the
great public importance and the likely recurrence of the issues preserved iu
jurisdiction despite the settle men,.
'Palm Beach County v. Tessler, 538 So.2d 846, 949 (Fla. 1989) ('There is
a right to be compensated through inverse condemnation when governments,
action causes a substantial loss of access to one's property even though then: is
no physical appropriation of the property itself.") (emphasis supplied)); Key-
stone Bituminous Coal Assn v. DeBencdictis, 480 U.S. 470, 485 (1987); Agins
V. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255, 260 (1980). See also J. Sackman, MchoLs
The taw of Fininew Domain § 6.09, at 6-55 (rev. 31d ed. 1985) ('The mexlcrn,
prevailing view is that any substantial interference with private property which
destroys or lessens its value .. , is, in fact and in law, a taking, in a constitu-
tional sense." (Emphasis supplied.)).
'Me fifth amendment protections exist to prevent government —from forc-
ing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice,
should be home by the public as a whole.'" Nollan v. California Coastal
Comm'n, 107 S.Ct- 3141, 3147 n.4 (1987) (quoting Armstrong v. United
States, 364 U.S. 40, 49 (1960)).
'A limitation on the exercise of the power of eminent domain is contained in
the fifth amendment which provides that `private property (shall rail be taken
for public use, without just compensation.' That protection applies to the states
through the fourteenth amendment. Chicago, B. do Q. R.R. v. City of Chicago,
166 U.S. 226 (1897). Florida's Constitution includes a similar limitation: 'No
private property shall be taken except for a public purpose and with full com-
pensation.' Art. X, § 6(s), Fla. Conti.
"To be valid, a regulation must be rationally related to the advancement of
that end. A use restriction which fails to substantially advance a legitimate state
interest may result in a 'taking.- Keystone Bituminous Coal Assn; Agins
Furthermore, in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York, 438
U.S. 104, 127 (1978), the Court opined that 'a use restriction on real propert�
may constitute a 'taking' if not reasonably necessary to the effectuation of a
substantial public purpose' (citation omitted).
"Me power of eminent domain derives from the same source as the police
Power, to wit, the power based upon the sovereignty of the ante. Sackman,
supra note 6, § 1.14, at 1-22 to 1-23.
"There, the church was prohibited by ordinance from constructing on its
property because the property was located within an interim flood protection
area. The church filed a complaint which, in part, sought to recover in inverse
condemnation. The issue before the Court was whether the fifth amendment's
just compensation clause required the government to pay for 'temporary" regu-
latory takings in inverse condemnation. The Court held that 'where the govern-
rrent's activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, to subse-
quent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensa-
tion for the period during which the taking was effective." First English Evan-
gelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles, 107 S.Ct. 2378, 2389
(1987). The Church did not argue, nor did the Court consider, whether the
challenged ordinance was constitutionally valid. Thus, First F-rrglish offers no
guidance to our resolution of the constitutional challenge against subsection
337.24)(2)snd (3), Florida Statutes (1987).
"Schick v. Florida Dept. of Agric., 504 So 2d 1318, 1319 (Fla. tat DCA)
('a cause of action for inverse condemnation will lic against ■ government
agent', which, by its conduct or activities, has taken private property without a
formal exercise of the power of eminent domain-), review denied, 513 So.2d
1060 (Fla. 1987); Village of Tequcsu v. Jupiter Inlet Corp., 371 S0.2d 663,
669 (Fla.) (Florida's Constitution recognizes a right of the owner to compel
compensation when his property is appropriated for public use), cent, denied,
444 U.S. 965 (1979).
"Moreover, subsection 337.241(2) permits the development moratorium to
last as long as ten years, after which DOT could abandon its road building plans
and forego condemnation proceedings.
(EHRLICH, C.J., dissenting.) The majority holds that subsec-
tions 337.241(2) and (3), Florida Statutes (1987), are facially
unconstitutional because they permit the state to take private
property without just compensation or the procedural protections
of the eminent domain statute. 1 must disagree.
A "taking" occurs when the government by its action deprives
a landowner of substantially all beneficial or economically viable
use of his property. See Williamson County Regional Planning
Commission v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172 (1985); Agins v,
City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980). If there is a taking, the con-
•
stitutions of the United States and the state of Florida require that
just and full compensation be paid. U.S. Const. amend. V; an. X,
§ 6(a), Fla. Const. In order for this Court to find subsections
337.241(2) and (3) facially unconstitutional, every conceivable
application of those subsections must be unconstitutional, i.e.,
effect a "taking" of private property without just compensation.
Members of the City Council v. Taxpayers for Vincent, 466 U.S.
789, 796 (1984). This is simply not the case.
Although in most circumstances imposition of a map of reser-
vation on vacant land will deprive the owner of substantially all
beneficial use of the property, it cannot be said that every conceiv-
able application of this statute will effect a taking. Subsections
337.214(2) and (3) apply to all types of land, from residential to
commercial, whether vacant or improved. Application of this
statute to land with existing structures which are in use likely will
not effect a taking, because this statute permits continued use of
and virtually unlimited renovation of existing residential
structures, and renovation of existing commercial structures up to
twenty percent of the appraised value of the structure. As it is only
by analysis of each circumstance in which the statute is applied
that it can be determined if a taking has occurred, the statute can-
not be unconstitutional on its face.
Confusion as to the operation of the statute underlies the whole
of the majority's analysis. The majority apparently acknowledges
the goals of this statute to promote highway safety and to save the
state money, and that those goals legitimatelypromote the general
welfare of the state. However, the majority finds fault with the
statute because it restricts land use prior to commencement of
compensation proceedings and without paying compensation to
the land owner. However, in circumstances such as those dis-
cussed above where the restrictions do not deprive the owner of
substantially all beneficial use of his property, there is no taking,
and no constitutional right to compensation.
Further, it is not constitutionally required that explicit provi-
sion be made in the statute for compensation to be raid in those
circumstances where application of the statute effects a taking,
because the owner has the right to file an inverse condemnation
action. The right was reaffirmed in First English Evangelical
Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles, 107 S. Ct. 2378
(1987), and was applied to takings resulting from government
regulatory action similar to that in this case. The United States
Supreme Court considered an ordinance which provided that
"'lal person shall not construct, reconstruct, place orenlarge any
building or structure, any portion of which is, or will be, located
within the outer boundary lines of the interim flood protection
area,' id. at 2381, but did not provide for compensation to be
paid to affected landowners. The Court noted that the right to
bring an inverse condemnation suit is based on the
"self-executing" nature of the just compensation clause:
'The fact that condemnation proceedings were not instituted
and that the right was asserted in suits by the owners did not
charge the essential nature of the claim. The form of the
remedy did not qualify the right. It rested upon the Fifth
Amendment. Statutory recognition was not necessary. A
prornise to pay was not necessary. Such a promise was im-
plied because of the duty imposed by the Amendment. "
Id. at 2386 (emphasis added) (quoting Jacobs v. United States,
290 U. S. 13 (1933)). Further, the Court in First English explicitly
recognized that "(w)hile the typical taking occurs when the gov-
ernment acts to condemn property in the exercise of its power of
eminent domain, the entire doctrine of inverse condemnation is
predicated on the proposition that a taking may occur without
such formal proceedings." 107 S.Ct. at 2386. While I agree that
"(i)nverse condemnation affords the affected property owner an
after -the -fact remedy, when there has already been a 'taking' by
regulation," majority op. at 12, and it is true that under inverse
condemnation it is the property owner who has the burden o]
seeking condemnation, the majority does not explain why this
remedy is not constitutionally sufficient if the statute otherwise
provides basic due process protections.
Due process is required whenever the government takes prop-
erty, as that is a deprivation of property under the due process
clauses of the United States and Florida Constitutions. U.S.
Const. amends. V, XIV; art. I, § 9, Fla. Coast. However, in the
context of eminent domain, due process requires only that the
property owner be given reasonable notice and an opportunity to
be heard. Dohany v. Rogers, 281 U.S. 362 (1930). The legisla-
ture has great discretion to determine the applicable procedure as
long as that procedure is adequate to provide just compensation
and satisfies the demands of due process and equal protection.
Crane v. Hahlo, 258 U.S. 142 (1922). The additional protections
afforded in the Florida eminent domain statutes, chapters 73 and
74, Florida Statutes (1987), are statutory in nature and are not
mandated by either the Florida or federal constitutions.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recognized the sufficiency
of inverse condemnation as a remedy in United States v. 101.88
Acres of Land, 616 F.2d 762, 772 (5th Cir. 1980):
IAl condemnation proceeding exists for the purpose of a] -
lowing the sovereign expeditiously to acquire precisely the
interest in land that it believes is required for some project it
will carry out and to pay the landowner compensation for only
those interests it has acquired, plus any damages that flow
directly from the acquisition itself. The sovereign need not, of
course, first proceed by formal condemnation. It may use land
and leave the landowner to ask the courts to award just com-
pensation under a theory of inverse condemnation. Or it may
proceed by formal condemnation and inverse condemnation
simultaneously.... The 51h Amendment, while it guarantees
that compensation be just, does not guarantee that it be muted
out in a way more convenient to the landowner than to the
sovereign.
(Emphasis added.) The fact that there are procedural differences
between condemnation under eminent domain and inverse con-
demnation does not in itself make the latter deficient as a remedy
so long as the basic constitutional requirements are met. See also
Port of New York Authority v. Heming, 34 N.J. 144, 167 A.2d
609 ("The Legislature may establish alternate procedures [for
condemnation) which may be resorted to at the election of the
condemnor provided each procedure itself meets the demands of
due process and equal protection."), cerr. denied, 367 U.S. 487
(1961).
State Road Department v. Forehand, 56 So.2d 901 (Fla.
1952), cited by the majority, does indeed stand for the proposition
that a taking must accord with due process. However, the portion
of that case quoted in the majority opinion, majority op. at 10,
when read in context, is not a statement by this Court of the proce-
dure required by due process, but instead is merely a recital of the
provisions of chapter 74, Florida Statutes, the statute at issue in
that case. Forehand does not stand for the proposition that due
process requires the full range of protections provided in the
eminent domain statutes, chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes. *
The statute at issue provides for reasonable notice and oppor-
tunity for the owner to challenge the agency action, thereby satis-
fying the requirements of due process. Prior to the filing of the
map of reservation, a public hearing is required to be advertised
and held, with notification to all affected property owners at least
twenty days prior to that hearing. After the map is filed, the owner
may challenge the action itself as unreasonable or arbitrary and
15 FLW q�p
SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
because it denies
April 27, 1990
,
property r substantial Portion of the beneficial use of the
F1Or>IdaSthttr�ad9 mrzt.ve hearing Pursuant to chapter 120,
If the
GREE MURDER IS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGH-
TER, WHICH CONVICTION IS REVERSED FOR
tjePartnYat ha, 189 . owners challenge is successful, the
nation days to acquire the
A NEW
TRIAL DUE TO TRIAL ERRORS, AND UPON REMAND
Property or file a condem-
below Pr�eedIng, 1 337.241(3), Fla. Stat. The district court
be correct
A NEW INFORMATION CHARGING MANSLAUGHTER
IS FILED AND TIMELY PROSECUTED AND ALL PAR
by th' tf this Procedure were the only means
which °�'ner could receive relief, then
-
TIES ARE FULLY AWARE THAT THE SAME CRQNI-
NAL EPISODE
the statute would be
unconai• However, this is
IS INVOLVED, IS THE PROSECUTION
not the case; the statute does
� Prohibit
OF THE SECOND INFORMATION A CONTINUATION
OF THE
United
prem Payment of compensation, and the
whose Suprepertyme Court has clearly found that a
ORIGINAL PROSECUTION SO THAT THE
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS REMAINS TOLLED
person
>i°VCm t regulationis"men'" even temporarily, as the result of
may sue for
THROUGHOUT T14E PROSECUTION?
compensation in inverse
CO°��a�. F)rst English. Moreover,
Id. at 650. We have jurisdiction. Art. V 3
§ rotive. Fla. Corte
filesao iuwer1e if the property owner
We answer the certified question in the affirmative and approve
q
action and the court determines that
a U&'ng has occurred' then the owner is
attorney',
the decision of the district court.
The facts
fees, as � entitled to reasonable
would in
of this case reflect that on December 4, 1981, Ed -
instituted a condemnation proceeding
the gdvernment. See State
ward Adam Fridovich shot his father in the head with a shotgun,
Road Dept. v. Lewis, 190
So.2d 598, 600 (Fla ist DCA) (It
killing him. He was charged by indictment with first -degree mur-
der, but
would be absurd that if the
department-�mplie8 with the law
the jury found him guilty of the lesser included offense of
of this state by instituting an
eminent d<,rnatn action, it is liable for attorneys fees; but if it
unlawfully
t"
manslaughter. Fridovich appealed his manslaughter conviction to
the Fourth District Court of Appeal, which reversed the convic-
an�pnatea a citizen's property without instituting
it thus escapes liability for
incurred
lion due to the trial court's erroneous refusal to allow a medical
examiner to testify
by the the attorney's fees
499 (F�� aggneved owner. "), cert. dismissed, 192 So.2d
)• Therefore,
that the shooting was accidental. Fridovich v.
State, 489 So. 2d 143 (Fla. 4th DCA), review denied, 496 So. 2d
a valid mechanism exists for the
payment of compensation and the federal and Florida constitu-
tions are lattafted
142 and 500 So. 2d 545 (Fla. 1986). The district court remanded
the case for a new trial and further proceedings by issued
Further, where, as here, the government ac
lion e regulation that will effect
mandate
August 1, 1986.
a taking only in certain circum
stances, it i, uric
, easonable and illogical
On September 18, 1986, the state filed an information entitled
"Re
to require the institutionof
formal CO°dernnstion proceedings in
-File Information for Manslaughter," charging Fridovich
every case,
For the foregoing reasons I would answer the certified ues_
tion in the negative
with the killing of his father. Prior to the second trial, the trial
judge ruled that evidence would be restricted to that
q
and approve the decision of the district court
below. (OVERTON and McDONALD, JJ.,
probative of
manslaughter. At the second trial, the slate's principal witness
Concur.)
was a blood -splatter expert, who opined that the shot that killed'
�' CI'he• �3
Fridovich's father was fired from a distance of one inch or less.
cuucd the tcW U.S. 253 (1980), cited by the majority, din-
domain and practical difference, between condemnation under eminerM
wtiara, Condemnation
Fridovich objected to this testimony before it was presented,
arguing that it was clearly "murder" evidence, but the trial
in the context of interpreting 25 U.S.C.
!i 357. The Cou" determined that the �
did not include term 'condemned-
court
the testimony. He then made a motion for a mistrial,
as used in the suture
and not txcauae'^�'erae Condemnation based solely on statutory interpretation,
urver,e condemnationwu in an w,
Y y conuitutwrullydcficient.
which
which was denied.
At the instruction conference, Fridovich moved for a directed
• + •
Criminal law +mitation
verdict of acquittal, claiming that the information on which he
tned barred by statute of
with r of actions— Where defendant was
charged withfarsldegreemurderandconvictedofmanslaughter
but appelt
Florida Statutes (1981) t Fridovich conhe
tended tha�tctlon becau7ce the
roLry reversed and remanded, and where, upon
remand, a new inform Limn
information was filed four -and -one-half years after the alleged
offense and contained language
timely prowuled
charging manslaughter was filed and
criminal a with all parties being fully aware that the same
P rdr wus involved,
no linking it to the earlier, timely
filed indictment, the action was barred. The trial judge denied the
tntormaUo,a wYy the prosecution of the second
contnruation of the original
the statute of Ii,rtil,tlNrns
motion for acquittal, and the jury subsequently returned a verdict
of guilty of manslaughter.
t prosecution so that
remained tolled throughout the prosecu-
tion —State is not m 4tttredto
On appeal, the district court noted that the refiled information
for new trijel file a new information upon remand
untk r such
charged the same defendant with the same crime of which he had
circumstances —Fact that case number
was different on refried informalion did not constitute an aban-
donment of origirt)tl indkl,nent
originally been convicted and that it involved the same parties, the
same subject matter, and the same dates. The court stated that
and lesser offense for which
defendant warrouvicted
Fridovich had not been prejudiced by this "continuation of the
EDWARD ADAAt I RID()VICII
original prosecution," 537 So. 2d at 650, and held that the statute
pendent. Su re petitioner, v, STATE OF FLORIDA, Re_
p '^` t �rtrt of FI"rid+_ Case No. 73,921. April 26, 1990. Appli-
,lion for Review „f the Dc, ision of the District
,rest Public imtw.„„ke.
of limitations was tolled by the filing of the original indictment
and that it continued tolled throughout the prosecution under the
Court of Appcal—Certified
Y). Steven D. Mcr "'. Flwrth District—Csae No, 87-0-to9 (Broward Coun-
reftled information. Id.
og+rtY. Me Y "kt Lind+ Jilin McNamara of Glenn, Rasmussen,
•lorida, for Pelt*. Rusao. Tampa, Florida; and Glen L. Brock, Lakeland,
kr. R„i,e„
There is no rule or other authority which requires the state to
file a new information upon
p0 remand for
'uller• Asaiatan ra Butte r "°^h. Attorney General and Deborah
OVEAtr' ^kY General, Neat Palm Beach, Florida, for Respondent.
N,
a new trial in these Cir-
curnstances. Pursuant to the mandate of the district court, the state
648 (Fl
d 648 (Fla. 4th I)CA 1989
1h C have for review Fridovich v. State, 537 So.
).
need file only a motion to set the case for trial with the trial court.
judge
The trial jud a is then obligated to instruct the jury
41
to which the Fourth District Court
Mf Appeal certtlic•d tl)r tolltwving
mPortance:
on the crime
With which the defendant is charged and to set forth the charge in
question to be of great public
accordance with Florida Standard Jury Instruction (Criminal)
WHERE A PERSON CHARGED WITH FIRST DE-
1.01. The state is not required to file a new charging document
setting forth the lesser included
I
offense on which the defendant
i
1