The trial court correctly dismissed this developer’s inverse condemnation claim for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. A city employee orally modified a grading plan for plaintiff’s townhouse project while the project was under construction. Plaintiff proceeded under the modified plan and grading permit without appealing the modification to the city’s permit appeals board. The decision rejects the plaintiff’s argument that it was economically infeasible for it to appeal since it was in the midst of construction. It could have gone ahead with the grading it would have had to perform anyway under the unmodified plan while requesting an expedited appeal of the modification.