Opinion ID: 2630928
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Heading: Did the City's failure to issue a building permit to the Fricks constitute a taking?

Text: The moratorium issue ties into the Fricks' next contention that the City's failure to issue a building permit constituted a taking. The Fricks essentially assert that the City's failure to issue a building permit is a taking of property without payment of just compensation or without having afforded rights of due process. As previously noted, it is generally recognized that the mere imposition of a permitting or regulatory process does not imply that a taking has occurred. It is only under extreme circumstances [that a land use regulation will] amount to a `taking' of the affected property. Riverside Bayview Homes, 474 U.S. at 126, 106 S.Ct. 455. The City argues this situation cannot be considered such a circumstance because a completed building permit application was never submitted. The City further argues the issue is not ripe because a permit has never been denied.