Mr. David Lucas had purchased two plots of land on an island offshore of Charleston, S.C., in 1992. When he bought them, they were zoned for development; by

the time he was ready to build, the law had changed, and so he sued under the Fifth

Amendment, charging that the government had taken the use of his land unjustly. A

splendid debate on a complex question. NR: "There's a real effort and a movement

afoot in this country to take back some of the property rights that have been eroded over

several decades of [environmental regulations] that have swung the pendulum so far that

people are mad as hell...." AS: "For as long as I have been in this business, which is

more than forty years, people have been mad as hell about it. It just depends on whose ox

is being gored."