Downey Cares v. Downey Community Development Commission

Opinion

ASHBY, J.

—The Downey Community Development Commission and City of Downey appeal from a judgment granting a peremptory writ of mandate invalidating an ordinance of the City of Downey which amended the city’s 1978 redevelopment plan.

In 1978 the City of Downey adopted a redevelopment plan involving a 116-acre project area. On July 10, 1984, the city council adopted, by a three-to-two vote, ordinance No. 759, which amended tfie 1978 plan by adding another 386 acres in an area known as the Firestone Corridor. Plaintiffs Downey Cares and Paul Sarvis, opponents of the amendment, filed this…