Amendment V
"nor shall private property be taken for public use without compensation."
If a community wants to "preserve" a historical district, then the community must compensate the private property owners for the cost to preserve the property in the manner in which the community wishes for it to preserved.
Remember the "preservation" is for "public use."
Precisely.
Sorry, but you're playing semantics and you're wrong. Do zoning laws open your house to the public? Are you required to allow strangers to come in and sleep or use the bathroom? No.
Sophistry is not a convincing argument.