Miller v. City of Tacoma

Weaver J.

Plaintiff, a resident and taxpayer of Tacoma, Washington, is the owner of real property “improved and enhanced with a valuable house which is a good, sound, sanitary, modern and well-kept building.” The house is within the boundaries of the Center Street Urban Renewal Project. He initiated this action on behalf of himself, and others similarly situated, for a declaratory judgment (RCW 7.24) to challenge the constitutionality of RCW 35.81 (Laws of 1957, chapter 42, as amended by Laws of 1959, chapter 79), known as the “Urban Renewal Law,” RCW 35.81.910. Plaintiff sought injunctive…