Opinion ID: 553906
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Heading: Counts Four and Nine of Complaint

Text: 18 Counts four and nine of the plaintiffs' complaint allege that the Board's actions amounted to a confiscation of property. A claim that a government regulation effects a taking of property without just compensation is not ripe until the government entity charged with implementing the regulation has made a final decision regarding the application of the regulation to the property at issue. Williamson County, 473 U.S. at 186, 105 S.Ct. at 3116; Eide, at 720. Moreover, if the government has provided an adequate process for the property owner to obtain compensation, and if resort to that process yields just compensation, then the owner has no just compensation claim. Williamson County, 473 U.S. at 194-95, 105 S.Ct. at 3120-21. Reverse condemnation proceedings are one procedure for pursuing just compensation. Id. at 196-97, 105 S.Ct. at 3121-22. 19 In First Lutheran Church, the Supreme Court held that when a state regulation temporarily deprives a property owner of all use of his property, the state must provide compensation under the just compensation clause. First Lutheran Church, 482 U.S. at 315, 107 S.Ct. at 2386. The Florida courts have recognized that under First Lutheran Church property owners have the right to bring reverse condemnation proceedings seeking compensation for regulatory takings. Joint Ventures, at 622. Accordingly, under Williamson County the plaintiffs' claims that the government has confiscated property without just compensation (counts four and nine) are not ripe for adjudication because the plaintiffs have not pursued compensation through a reverse condemnation proceeding. Williamson County, 473 U.S. at 195, 105 S.Ct. at 3121 (a property owner has not suffered a violation of the just compensation clause until the owner has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain just compensation....); see also Anthony v. Franklin County, 799 F.2d 681, 684 (11th Cir.1986). 13