Apostle v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal by the City of Seattle from a judgment of the King County Superior Court granting an injunction permanently prohibiting the city from proceeding with the University Addition-Northlake Urban Renewal Project.

The area included in the project and claimed to be blighted is adjacent to the southern part of the western boundary of the campus of the University of Washington, and is bounded on the north by Northeast 40th Street, on the east by University Way Northeast (which separates the campus from the project area), on the south by Northeast Boat Street, and on the west by the…