Court Opinion

ID: 9794617
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:08:33.53818+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:18:13.274756
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Utter, J.
(concurring) — I concur in the result reached by the majority. I seriously question, however, whether the facts of this case amount to a "taking" or "damaging" as prohibited by Const. art. 1, § 16. I would prefer to follow the approach of the New York court in Fred F. French Investing Co. v. New York, 39 N.Y.2d 587, 350 N.E.2d 381, 385 N.Y.S.2d 5 (1976). There the court held that regulations which require the owner of private property to keep it as parks, without buildings and open for public use, did not amount to a taking because they did not enrich the City in its "enterprise capacity". Liability was found, however, on the ground that the regulations unreasonably deprived the owner of property rights in the land, thereby depriving him of private property without due process. For an excellent discussion of the problems involved in our current approach *572to unconstitutional takings of private property without just compensation, see Stoebuck, Police Power, Takings, and Due Process, 37 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1057 (1980).
Reconsideration denied July 20, 1983.