State v. Delany

In this inverse condemnation case, the owner of raw land recovered a judgment for 90 percent of the property’s value based on alleged impairment of access. A few months after the court of appeals affirmed, we held in County of Bexar v. Santikos that when a tract has “no businesses, homes, driveways, or other improvements of any kind,” an impairment claim cannot be sustained on the basis that “someday a developer might want to build a driveway at the single most difficult and expensive location on the entire property.” 144 S.W.3d 455, 460-61 (Tex.2004). Based on that reasoning, we reverse the…