Opinion ID: 200835
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Air Rights

Text: 23 At trial, CPI agreed with Coyle's appraisal of the three-year temporary taking of the Air Rights. The district court took Coyle's appraisal but adjusted upward by ten percent to account for a ten percent discount in Coyle's calculation that Coyle himself could not explain. As for the highest and best use of the Air Rights, Coyle concluded that such use was for apartments and office structures. Coyle maintained this conclusion in two separate reports. 24 In challenging the district court's awards for the temporary and permanent takings of the Air Rights, Amtrak repeats its arguments that because of use restrictions imposed by CPI's deed and Capital Center Commission regulations, 6C had no permissible use until 2017 and that therefore 6C could not be incorporated into a unified development with 6B. Amtrak claims that the district court's damage awards for the Air Rights were erroneous because they were premised on 6B's joint development with 6C. Just as it argued in its challenge to the district court's award for 6C, Amtrak also claims that CPI's purported highest and best use for the Air Rights is economically infeasible. For the reasons set out supra, we find these arguments meritless. The district court did not clearly err in its awards to CPI (1) of the fair market value of the temporary taking of the Air Rights and (2) of the fair market value of the permanent taking of Air Rights as of May 3, 2001.