Reference no: EM133855006

Question

Dr. R.E. Shands purchased the 7.9-acre Little Fat Deer Key in 1956, and seven acres of adjacent bay bottom in 1959, before any state land use policies existed. In 1986, Monroe County adopted the State Comprehensive Plan and development regulations that altered Shands Key's zoning status to Conservation Offshore Island (OS), and placed it in the Future Land Use category. When the City of Marathon incorporated in 1999, it adopted the 1986 Monroe County comprehensive land use plan, and Shands Key was within the City bounds. In 2005, the City adopted the City of Marathon Comprehensive Plan; the land use and zoning designations of Shands Key remained unchanged. Essentially development of the property under the new zoning designations were limited to bee keeping and camping, After a dock permit was denied, and administrative relief sought and denied, Shands brought suit that the new regulation constituted an inverse condemnation taking. What result?