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should make local land-use regulators think twice about a downzoning that could leave a landowner with rights only to develop in a way the market will not allow.
State officials say the Supreme Court ruling should not affect state environmental regulations such as the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act and the Tidal Wetlands Act, which place some restrictions on property to control erosion and preserve water quality.
But when future environmental laws are drawn up, legislators will have to keep property owners more in mind, said Woodrow Turner, a Leesburg attorney who represents Virginians for Property Rights, which mobilized late last year over the proposed historic designation of land in the Brandy Station battlefield site in Fauquier and Culpeper
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