350 TAHOE-SIERRA PRESERVATION COUNCIL, INC. v.
TAHOE REGIONAL PLANNING AGENCY Rehnquist, C. J., dissenting
'adjusting the benefits and burdens of economic life' . . . in a manner that secures an 'average reciprocity of advantage' to everyone concerned," Lucas, supra, at 1017-1018 (quoting Penn Central Transp. Co. v. New York City, 438 U. S., at 124, and Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U. S., at 415), and more likely that the property "is being pressed into some form of public service under the guise of mitigating serious public harm," Lucas, supra, at 1018.
The Court also reads Lucas as being fundamentally concerned with value, ante, at 329-331, rather than with the denial of "all economically beneficial or productive use of land," 505 U. S., at 1015. But Lucas repeatedly discusses its holding as applying where "no productive or economically beneficial use of land is permitted." Id., at 1017; see also ibid. ("[T]otal deprivation of beneficial use is, from the land-owner's point of view, the equivalent of a physical appropriation"); id., at 1016 ("[T]he Fifth Amendment is violated when land-use regulation . . . denies an owner economically viable use of his land"); id., at 1018 ("[T]he functional basis for permitting the government, by regulation, to affect property values without compensation . . . does not apply to the relatively rare situations where the government has deprived a landowner of all economically beneficial uses"); ibid. ("[T]he fact that regulations that leave the owner of land without economically beneficial or productive options for its use . . . carry with them a heightened risk that private property is being pressed into some form of public service"); id., at 1019 ("[W]hen the owner of real property has been called upon to sacrifice all economically beneficial uses in the name of the common good, that is, to leave his property economically idle, he has suffered a taking"). Moreover, the Court's position that value is the sine qua non of the Lucas rule proves too much. Surely, the land at issue in Lucas retained some market value based on the contingency, which soon came to fruition (see supra, at 347), that the development ban would be amended.
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