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Regulatory Takings And Property Rights Confront Sea Level Rise: How Do They Roll?, John R. Nolon
Regulatory Takings And Property Rights Confront Sea Level Rise: How Do They Roll?, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Under the Beach and Shore Preservation Act, the State of Florida is authorized to conduct extraordinarily expensive beach renourishment projects to restore damaged coastal properties. The statute advances the State’s interest in repairing the damage to the coastal ecosystem and economy caused by hurricanes, high winds, and storm surges. The effect of a renourishment project conducted under the statute is to fix the legal boundary of the littoral property owner at an Erosion Control Line. Plaintiffs in Walton County v. Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. claimed that the statute took their common law property rights to their boundary, which would, …