However, the Act had a limited impact, largely because the government did not have the money to compensate landowners.

Washington would be required to compensate landowners for declines in property values that resulted from new regulations.

And the Government would have to compensate landowners if efforts to protect species resulted in any significant reduction in land values.

Most of these émigrés, illiterate and landless, took the best farming land, regardless of availability, without compensating existing landowners.

It redistributed unused lands of sizes greater than 224 acres (0.902 km2) to local peasants, compensating landowners with government bonds.

The plan also includes complex provisions to compensate private landowners who would not be allowed to develop.

The lawyer explained that while the city has the right to regulate use of the land, it also has the responsibility to compensate landowners.

They are intended to help compensate landowners in protected areas for the loss of their own development rights.

But it said nothing about compensating landowners for any decline in the value of property resulting from regulations.

They redistributed land among small farmers and compensated large landowners with commodities certificates and stock in state-owned industries.