Acts Retirement-Life Cmtys., Inc. v. Town of Columbus

ELMORE, Judge.

*456 In June 2002, the Town Council in the Town of Columbus, North Carolina (defendant) voted to reclassify two water meters from commercial to residential at Tryon Estates, a retirement facility owned and operated by ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc. (plaintiff). In response, plaintiff filed a complaint in February 2011. After a bench trial, the trial court ordered that the June 2002 reclassification and concurrent change in billing methodology was arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable, and unreasonably discriminatory in violation of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 160A-314. Defendant appeals…