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heights on mountain ridges.
At the same time, four major U.S. Supereme Court cases in the past decade (Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 1987; First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v. County of Los Angeles, 1987; Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 1992; Dolan v. City of Tigard, 1994) have established legal constraints on how stringent regulations can be without constituting a “taking” — a governmental restriction for which property owners must be compensated.
So, if a person were prevented by a local ordinance from building a ridgetop home on a lot purchased for that purpose, that might well be deemed a taking, even if a legitimate public purpose were being served. (It is not
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