system
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human
CMV:If a piece of property you own is found to be undevelopable because of a protected species, the government should have to buy your land from you for what you paid for it.

I live in an area with a lot of environmental protection laws and regulations. I frequently hear stories of people buying a piece of land and then not being able to do anything with the property because the government determines there are tree frogs or owls of some sort. These people just end up losing out. To a lesser extent there are times when people are delayed for a decade before they can develop because there is an investigation because someone reported they saw a certain snake or something. I have no problem with environmental protection laws, but they should not punish landowners. If an animal is important enough to stop any development for, the government should have to buy the land and turn it into a sanctuary.
gpt
Perhaps a market-based insurance solution would work better here.

Landowners who don't want to bear the risk of not being able to develop their land due to environmental restriction could buy special insurance that would pay out if the land does in fact become non-developable.

It would be win-win-win: the landowners transfer their individual risk to a risk pool, the government doesn't get stuck buying land it doesn't want to own, and insurance companies get a new market.