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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 08:10:57+00:00

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a change in the property’s highest and best use.
part of a highway improvement project and the compensability of severance damages to the remainder.
best use” of the property from commercial to residential.
residential use despite the existence and extent of direct access to two other public roads.
remaining access points, and the status of development plans were undisputed.
condemned land and $402,616.80 in severance damages, and the court of appeals affirmed. __ S.W.
evaluated in light of a property’s highest and best use.
derives from a constitutionally cognizable injury. See Felts v. Harris County, 915 S.W.2d 482, 484 (Tex.
is materially and substantially impaired. City of Waco v. Texland Corp., 446 S.W.2d 1, 2 (Tex. 1969).
State v. Heal, 917 S.W.2d 6, 9 (Tex. 1996)).
whether other access points remain after the taking and whether those access points are reasonable.
light of a property’s highest and best use. See City of Houston v. Fox, 419 S.W.2d 819, 819-20 (Tex.
access for which the property was specifically intended was rendered unreasonably deficient).
improvements of any kind.” Id. at 460.
State v. Carpenter, 89 S.W.2d 194, 200 (Tex. 1936)).
commercial development plans, or a contract for commercial use.
and substantially impaired merely because other access points are significantly less convenient. 218 S.
future commercial development of the southern remainder is purely speculative. Cf. Santikos, 144 S.W.
needed or likely to be needed in the reasonably foreseeable future.’” (quoting Olson v. U.S., 292 U.S.
compensable and noncompensable injuries, the harmed party is entitled to a new trial.”).
otherwise support a rendition of a judgment in the State’s favor on that claim. See State v. Heal, 917 S.
W.2d 6, 11 n.2 (Tex. 1996).
opinion. See Tex. R. App. P. 59.1.
was substituted as a party.
correct spelling, but the City of Hewitt website uses the spelling we have adopted in this opinion.
See http://www.cityofhewitt.com (accessed September 23, 2008).

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