Legal Opinion
Jorgenson v. City of Aurora
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided September 8, 1988No. 86CA1434PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BABCOCK, Judge.
Plaintiff, Lane B. Jorgenson, appeals the dismissal of his damage claims against the City of Aurora for inverse condemnation and deprivation of his civil rights. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Jorgenson alleged that in 1982 he applied to Aurora for approval of a plan for land he was proposing to develop. The plan was to detain storm runoff water in a series of ponds which would in turn drain at a historical rate of flow into the Highline Canal, an irrigation ditch bordering the land, owned by the City and County of Denver.
Aurora disapproved Jorgenson’s drainage plan, and…
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