itself, no compensation is due. ¶ 9. Landowners concede that they base their business losses on the change in the flow of traffic from the construction of the median strip. Like the property owners in Sand Bar and Spear, they contend that because the median strip was part of the same project that resulted in the taking of portions of their land, they are entitled to compensation for the effects of the highway project as a whole. They rely on several out-of-state cases, including a closely analogous case from South Carolina, to argue that when a project results in a taking, the owner of the land that has been taken is entitled to compensation for all incidental effects of the project on the value of the remaining land. S.C. State Highway Dep’t v. Wilson, 175 S.E.2d 391, 396 (S.C. 1970) (<HOLDING>) (quotations omitted); see also State ex rel.
holding that a landowner could recover for placement of a median strip that could not have occurred but for the taking of the landowners property because the inquiry is how much has the particular public improvement decreased the fair market value of the property taking into consideration the use for which the land was taken and all the reasonably probable effects of its devotion to that use holding that a taking occurred where flooding of the plaintiffs property amounted to an almost complete destruction of the value of the land holding that if respondents suit is one for permanent damages to the land the measure of damages is the decreased value of the land holding that a landowner who lost a strip of property to a highway widening project could not recover losses caused by concurrent placement of a median strip because when less than the entire property is taken compensation for damage to the remainder can be awarded only if such damage is caused by the taking and cjonstruction of the median not the taking caused the alleged damage holding that in condemnation proceedings the landowner has the burden of establishing the value of the property