the City of Friendswood and Kevin Holland v. Paul and Carolyn Horn, Mike and Lucy Stacy, Pete and Judy Garcia and Janice Frankie

OPINION

Jane Bland, Justice

After Tropical Storm Allison destroyed the Imperial Estates Section One subdivision, the City of Friendswood acquired most of the subdivision’s 42 lots through a federally-subsidized flooding mitigation program. The program required the local government to use the subsidy to buy out homeowners and then leave the lots — purchased with'the subsidy funds and within the federally and state declared disaster areas — as open space for the public benefit. The owners of four of the 42 , lots declined to participate in the program. These homeowners, Paul and Carolyn Horn,…