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- Title: Weatherford v. City of San Marcos
- Author : In the Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
- Release Date : January 09, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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In this cause, we are confronted with a dispute between a property owner, his neighbors, and a city over the property owners attempts to develop his property for commercial purposes. The property owner, Jack Weatherford, his neighbors, and the City of San Marcos met, negotiated, and agreed in principle that some commercial development of Weatherfords property was possible. Weatherfords subsequent rezoning requests, however, were denied. He sued the City of San Marcos and the City Council (collectively, the "City"), claiming their denials violated his rights to due process and equal protection, violated chapter 245 of the government code, constituted a regulatory taking, and were proprietary in nature and thus subject to estoppel. The City moved for summary judgment arguing that the negotiated land-use plan established only the basic framework for future development and did not formally vest in Weatherford the right to develop his property commercially. The district court granted summary judgment for the City, and we affirm.