Should local governments have to pay recompense if your land is devalued due to a rezone?

Question

There are several states considering bills which would force governments to compensate land owners if their land was devalued after a rezoning effort, or if they declare the land unfit to build on due to wetlands, etc.

Here's our states effort:

http://www.propertyfairness.com/

Answer 1

Assuming such value could be reasonable calculated, then I would have no problem with a legislature passing a law like this. It meets the intent of the 5th Amendment Takings Clause, and if the state decides they want towns to play nice -- that can't be a bad thing.

The only potential downside is the cost of litigation if lots of people start suing the towns and counties to recover what they think they might have potentially lost, based on what some zoning code did in another part of town. But that's a matter of writing the law intelligently and not allowing such legal loopholes.

Answer 2

How we govern ourselves in our mutually protective social
communities is supposed to be based on the good of the greater
body. If a zoning issue is decided fairly based on the welfare of
the community then no compensation should be payed. If on the
other hand it is shown that the action was at the bequest of any
special interest groups or not really done with the benefit of the
greater community at heart then yes fair compensation should
be made

Answer 3

NO.
DO YOU PAY THEM WHEN ITS REZONED COMMERICIAL?