California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Pacific Legal Foundation v. California Coastal Commission, 129 Cal.App.3d 44, 180 Cal.Rptr. 858 (Cal. App. 1982):
It is a salutory objective to expand and develop public access to the beach and shoreline but the whole concept underlying the constitutional prohibition against taking private property for public use without just compensation is that individual property owners should not be forced to bear a disproportionate burden in the providing of public facilities. (Armstrong v. United States, 364 U.S. 40, 80 S.Ct. 1563, 4 L.Ed.2d 1554.)
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