Lost Tree Village Corp. v. City of Vero Beach

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the relevance of the working relationship between the landowner and the governmental entity in determining whether a decision is final and whether the submission of an additional application would be futile
• providing that when a regulatory takings claim is ripe, it becomes clear that the agency lacks the discretion to permit any development, or the permissible uses of the property are known to a reasonable degree of certainty
• determining whether a complaint stated a cause of action for an as-applied regulatory takings claim based on the sufficiency of the allegations to demonstrate a final decision or alternatively to establish that further applications were futile
• determining whether a complaint stated a cause of action for an as-applied regulatory takings claim based on the sufficiency of the allegations to demonstrate a final decision or alternatively to establish that further applications were futile
• “[T]his court should review Lost Tree’s allegations de novo to determine whether it pled valid and ripe claims.”
• “ ‘A court may not go beyond the four corners of the complaint and must accept the facts alleged therein and exhibits attached as true.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).