Starr v. City and County of San Francisco

Opinion

EMERSON, J. *

Appellants herein are taxpayers of the City and County of San Francisco (hereafter referred to as the City). They sought a declaratory judgment voiding two contracts between the City and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (hereafter the Agency). These contracts dealt with the construction and subsequent leasing of the Yerba Buena Center (hereafter YBC or the project). We shall refer to the contracts as the project lease and the repayment contract respectively. The trial court upheld the validity of both contracts and entered judgment in favor of the City. This appeal…