Tampa-Hillsborough County v. AGWS

608 So. 2d 52, 1992 WL 235303
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
DecidedSeptember 23, 1992
Docket92-00065, 91-03263
StatusPublished
Cited by13 cases

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Tampa-Hillsborough County v. AGWS, 608 So. 2d 52, 1992 WL 235303 (Fla. Ct. App. 1992).

Opinion

608 So.2d 52 (1992)

TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY EXPRESSWAY AUTHORITY, Appellant,
v.
A.G.W.S. CORPORATION, Appellee.
TAMPA-HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY EXPRESSWAY AUTHORITY, Appellant,
v.
DUNDEE DEVELOPMENT GROUP, Appellee.

Nos. 92-00065, 91-03263.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 23, 1992.

William C. McLean, Jr., William C. McLean, Jr., P.A., Tampa, for appellant.

S. Cary Gaylor, Marc I. Sachs, and Alan E. DeSerio, Brigham, Moore, Gaylord, Wilson, Ulmer, Schuster and Sachs, Tampa, for appellees.

Thornton J. Williams, Gen. Counsel, and Thomas F. Capshew, Asst. Gen. Counsel, for amicus curiae Florida Dept. of Transp.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Orlando/Orange County Expressway Auth. v. W & F Agrigrowth-Fernfield, Ltd., 582 So.2d 790 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). We also agree to certify to the supreme court the question posed by Judge Altenbernd's dissent as follows:

WHETHER ALL LANDOWNERS WITH PROPERTY INSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF INVALIDATED MAPS OF RESERVATION UNDER SUBSECTIONS 337.241(2) AND (3), FLORIDA STATUTES (1987), ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO RECEIVE PER SE DECLARATIONS OF TAKING AND JURY TRIALS TO DETERMINE JUST COMPENSATION.

CAMPBELL, A.C.J., and HALL, J., concur.

CAMPBELL, A.C.J., concurring specially with opinion.

ALTENBERND, J., dissenting with opinion.

CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge, Specially concurring.

I have concurred with Judge Hall that we must affirm these consolidated cases on the authority of Orlando/Orange County Expressway Authority v. W & F Agrigrowth-Fernfield, Limited, 582 So.2d 790 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991), because I believe that case is a correct interpretation of the state of the law in Florida regarding the issues raised in these cases based upon the precedent of Joint Ventures, Inc. v. Department of Transportation, 563 So.2d 622 (Fla. 1990).

Since I am bound by the precedent of our supreme court in Joint Ventures, I conclude I must affirm. See Hoffman v. Jones, 280 So.2d 431 (Fla. 1973). Were I able to decide otherwise, I would agree with Judge Altenbernd, for I conclude his reasoning is sound. My concern arises because cases such as these which find that a taking has occurred based upon the authority of Joint Ventures may well involve landowners who have suffered no actual damage. Yet, because a taking has, under Joint Ventures, been found to have taken place, we must offer those landowners an opportunity to prove whether or not they have suffered actual damages. This could result in the state being liable for substantial costs and attorney's fees.

ALTENBERND, Judge, dissenting.

These consolidated cases involve two landowners, each having had a portion of its land temporarily affected by a map of reservation recorded pursuant to subsections 337.241(2) and (3), Florida Statutes (1987). The map was intended to preserve land for use in a future transportation corridor. Such maps and their underlying statutory basis were invalidated by the supreme court in Joint Ventures, Inc. v. Department of Transportation, 563 So.2d 622 *53 (Fla. 1990). Thus, for a period of about two years, this recorded map limited development opportunities for the portions of land inside the corridor.

After the decision in Joint Ventures, these two landowners filed inverse condemnation actions seeking monetary damages for the temporary taking of their land. The trial court followed the Fifth District and granted a partial summary judgment, holding that a temporary taking of these lands had occurred, even if the specific parcels were not substantially affected by the recorded map. See Orlando/Orange County Expressway Auth. v. W & F Agrigrowth-Fernfield, Ltd., 582 So.2d 790 (Fla. 5th DCA), review denied, 591 So.2d 183 (Fla. 1991).[1]

The issue in this case is whether the supreme court in Joint Ventures truly intended to establish a per se inverse condemnation claim for such landowners. If so, then every corridor landowner is entitled to a jury trial on the issue of just compensation, even if it sustained no substantial interference with the use of its land during the brief period these statutes were in effect.

I cannot accept the Fifth District's opinion as a true reflection of the intent of the supreme court or as an appropriate per se rule of constitutional law. I would obey the reasoning in Joint Ventures, as well as recent United States Supreme Court precedent, and hold that a landowner is not entitled to just compensation, attorney's fees, and costs as a result of these short-lived maps of reservation unless it establishes at trial that the temporary existence of such a map actually deprived it of a substantial "economically beneficial or productive use of [its] land." See Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, ___ U.S. ___, 112 S.Ct. 2886, 120 L.Ed.2d 798 (1992). Because of the ambiguity I perceive within Joint Ventures, I would also certify this issue to the supreme court.

I. THE FACTS

In the mid-1980s, the legislature enacted section 337.241, Florida Statutes (1987).[2]*54 In general, this statute allowed the Department of Transportation and any expressway authority to prepare and record maps of reservation, indicating corridors of land which could be used for road development or improvement in the future. Subsection (2) of the statute restricted development within these corridors. Subsection (3) gave an affected property owner the right to an administrative hearing, essentially to compel the state to acquire the affected property.

In January 1988, the First District upheld the constitutionality of this statute, but certified to the supreme court a question concerning the constitutionality of subsections (2) and (3). Joint Ventures, Inc. v. Dep't of Transp., 519 So.2d 1069 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988). On April 26, 1990, the supreme court answered the question and declared these statutory subsections unconstitutional in a sharply divided decision. Joint Ventures v. Dep't of Transp., 563 So.2d 622 (Fla. 1990).

The Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority (the Authority) filed a map of reservation on July 8, 1988, describing a corridor running north-south in an area generally west of Dale Mabry Highway. This occurred after the First District's opinion in Joint Ventures, but before the supreme court's opinion. The restrictions on development created by this map were effectively eliminated when the supreme court invalidated the relevant subsections on April 26, 1990.

In early 1991, Dundee Development Group (Dundee) filed a complaint alleging a temporary taking of its land under the Authority's map of reservation and seeking damages for the period from July 8, 1988, to April 26, 1990. The complaint states that, at all relevant times, Dundee owned 205.53 acres located on the north side of Van Dyke Road, approximately one mile west of Dale Mabry Highway. It claims that a "significant portion" of Dundee's land falls inside the corridor and that the corridor bisects this property.[3]

The complaint alleges a taking under several different legal tests. First, it maintains that the map of reservation had left "the property within the map of reservation with no utility or economically beneficial use." In the alternative, it alleges that the map constituted a "physical invasion" of the property.

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