Must be a “Property Owner” to Avail Yourself of the Bert J. Harris, Jr. Private Property Rights Protection Act

In a prior article, I discussed the Bert J. Harris, Jr., Private Property Rights Protection Act. This Act is designed to provide statutory protection to a property owner when governmental action inordinately burdens (directly restricts or limits) the owner's use of their property without the governmental action amounting to a taking. Vale v. Palm Beach County, 43 Fla. L. Weekly D2591a (Fla. 4th DCA 2018). This Act, however, does NOT apply if governmental action does not inordinately burden YOUR property, i.e., property you own. For example, in Vale, a group of homeowners purchased property in a planned used development next...