Shepherd v. City of Wentzville

STEWART, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff challenges the denial of his petition for a declaratory judgment in which he sought to have two ordinances establishing utility rates of defendant City declared unreasonable, arbitrary and unconstitutional. The trial court entered judgment in defendant City’s favor.

We affirm.

The City of Wentzville owns and operates a water and sewer system. Ordinance 695 sets the billing rate for city water using a regressive rate schedule, the cost per hundred gallons decreasing as the volume used increases.1

The regressive rate schedule applies to commercial and residential…