Opinion ID: 547055
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Inverse Condemnation

Text: 49 The district court held that because the permits were properly denied under the pending new ordinance, the denial did not result in an inverse condemnation. National claims on appeal that the denial rendered its billboard leaseholds worthless. 50 Regardless of the basis for the denial of the permits, or of whether a taking occurred, National's claim for a regulatory taking based on a zoning ordinance must be dismissed as unripe. See Williamson County Regional Planning Comm'n v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172, 194-95, 105 S.Ct. 3108, 3120-21, 87 L.Ed.2d 126 (1985). In Williamson County, the Court indicated that a property owner has not suffered a violation of the Just Compensation Clause until the owner has unsuccessfully attempted to obtain just compensation through the procedures provided by the State for obtaining such compensation. Id. at 195. National has not indicated in this case that it has unsuccessfully sought compensation under the eminent domain procedures of Colorado. See Colo.Rev.Stat. Secs. 38-1-101 et seq. (1982). These procedures are available to an inverse condemnee to obtain compensation for an alleged taking. See Linnebur v. Public Serv. Co. of Colo., 716 P.2d 1120, 1123 (Colo.1986) (en banc) (citing Ossman v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co., 184 Colo. 360, 520 P.2d 738 (Colo.1974) (inverse condemnation action to be tried as if eminent domain proceeding)). We accordingly affirm the district court.