Board of County Supervisors v. United States

ORDER

MOODY R. TIDWELL, III, Judge:

This case is before the court on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, “to determine just compensation due the [plaintiff] for the taking of its land which it held in unencumbered fee simple.” Board of County Supervisors v. United States, 48 F.3d 520, 528 (Fed.Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 116 S.Ct. 61, 133 L.Ed.2d 24 (1995).

FACTS

In 1986, Hazel-Peterson Companies (“the Developer”) purchased nearly 550 acres of agricultural land in Prince William County, Virginia. Because the land was zoned as “Agricultural,” development could…