Palm Beach County v. Wright

Palm Beach County (defendant) adopted an unrecorded thoroughfare map, amendable twice yearly and incidental to its comprehensive development plan, barring land uses that would impede future road construction; property owners including Wright (plaintiffs) challenged the map as facially unconstitutional under a prior Florida Supreme Court decision (Joint Ventures) that struck down a state transportation department's reservation maps designed to keep future eminent-domain acquisition costs low. The trial court and intermediate appellate court agreed the map was facially unconstitutional, and the county appealed.