Tiffany Family Trust Corp. v. City of Kent

¶1 Fairhurst, J.

Tiffany Family Trust Corporation asks us to find that a $364,939 local improvement district (LID) assessment was an unconstitutional taking and a violation of due process. Because Tiffany failed to use the *228mandatory statutory procedure for challenging LID assessments, the city’s assessment against Tiffany is conclusively correct and for that reason Tiffany’s state and federal constitutional claims are without substance.

I. FACTS

¶2 In 1986, Tiffany obtained a conditional use permit from the city of Kent to increase its nonindustrial usage (retail, office, and/or service uses) by…