CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH v. BELL

Record No. 971117.

498 S.E.2d 414 (1998)

CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH v. Richardson C. BELL, Trustee for Bell Land Trust.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Steven Emmert, Senior Attorney (Richard J. Beaver, Deputy City Attorney, on briefs), for appellant.

Patrick Alan Genzler (Robert L. O'Donnell; Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, on brief), Norfolk, for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KINSER, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider first whether the City of Virginia Beach (the City) is a proper defendant in this action for inverse condemnation. We next determine whether the denial of a permit required by the City's Coastal Primary Sand Dune Zoning Ordinance (the Ordinance) constitutes a regulatory taking and thereby requires the City to compensate the property owner for the value of the property taken. Because the denial of the permit was pursuant...

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