Definitions for "Takings"
An increasingly common allegation by private landowners that government regulation of their property violates the prohibition in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the government from taking private property for a public purpose without paying just compensation. The Public Trust Doctrine can preclude takings claims on the simple ground that the government cannot "take" from private landowners what they do not own.
A restriction of the use of privately owned land, or the actual taking of the land through eminent domain by governmental entities, without fair payment and/or without any benefit to the public.
the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"
Limitations on development activity, changes in zoning that prevent an owner from using land as intended or desired, or the requirement by a city or county that in order to gain approval, a developer must pay for additional benefits or donate land.