Compensation
The commonest pattern, and the one where most of the value sits in the land you keep.
Most Florida condemnations do not take a whole property. They take a strip of frontage, a corner, or a corridor across the middle, and leave the owner with the rest. That remainder is where the money usually is.
A partial taking asks two questions rather than one. What is the part acquired worth, and what has the project done to everything else.
The short answer
The value of the strip is the easy half. The value of what the strip leaves behind is the half that decides whether an offer is close.
The reduction in value of the land left behind.
Read moreHow the residue is valued afterwards.
Read moreDriveways, medians and turning movements.
Read moreTrade damaged while the premises remain.
Read moreCorridors that cross rather than trim.
Read moreThe base measure.
Read moreAt its highest and best use.
Area, interest and position within the parcel.
The first component of the award.
With the take made and the project built.
The reduction in the value of the remainder.
Where a practical fix exists, its cost may be relevant. Where it does not, the damage stands.
Section 73.071(3)(b) and its conditions.
A parcel left long, narrow or awkward may not support what the whole once did.
The remainder may be harder to enter, exit or move around.
Losing a strip can push a building envelope below what regulations allow.
Land now adjoining a road or facility is not the land it was.
A corridor dividing a holding can strand the far side entirely.
Appraisals sometimes assume a fix. Test whether it is practical and whether its cost was counted.
Small takes in poor positions frequently produce the largest proportionate damage to the remainder. The size of the strip is a weak guide to the size of the claim.
Ask how the remainder was valued and what it assumed about access, shape and use. That is where the disagreement will be.
In Florida it may add a separate element under section 73.071(3)(b), which is unusual and easily overlooked.
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