A landowner’s petition claiming California courts misapplied precedent on land-use exactions when they upheld a fee for road improvements a county charged him to get a permit to build a house on his property was granted certiorari by the US Supreme Court Friday.
El Dorado County, Calif., required George Sheetz to pay $23,420 to finance road improvements. He claimed that the exaction was calculated without consideration of the impact his project would have on the nearby roads and challenged it under the takings clause of the US Constitution.
Sheetz argued that in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission and Dolan v. ...
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