Landgate, Inc. v. California Coastal Commission

*1010Opinion

MOSK, J.

In First Lutheran Church v. Los Angeles County (1987) 482 U.S. B04, 321 [107 S.Ct. 2378, 2389, 96 L.Ed.2d 250],1 the court held that “where the government’s activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, no subsequent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensation for the period during which a taking was effective.” In so holding, the court cautioned that the holding did not extend to “the quite different questions that would arise in the case of normal delays in obtaining building permits, changes in zoning ordinances, variances,…