Black v. City of Killeen

JAN P. PATTERSON, Justice.

Appellant Ira W. Black, Jr. appeal's the district court’s declaratory judgment entered in favor of the City of Killeen. Black owns five apartment buildings built between 1986 and 2000 in the City of Killeen, a home rule municipality. See Tex. Const, art. XI, § 5; Tex. Loc. Gov’t Code Ann. .§ 5.004 (West 1999). At issue in this appeal are tap fees assessed by the City for apartment buildings Black constructed in 1998 and 2000. 1 Prior to 1998, Black paid the City a tap fee per building connection. 2 In 1998 and 2000, pursuant to a 1997 amendment to the tap fee…