Robert Randall Co. v. City of Beaverton

This is a declaratory judgment proceeding in which plaintiffs seek to establish that defendant City of Beaverton’s water rate structure, as set out in Ordinance No. 3267, is arbitrary and unreasonable and, therefore, unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.1 The trial court held in favor of the city, and plaintiffs appeal. We affirm.

Plaintiffs are owners of, or property managers for, apartments and apartment complexes located in the City of Beaverton. The city supplies plaintiffs’ businesses with domestic water. In 1979, the city’s voters authorized a…