Time Oil Co. v. City of Port Angeles

—Time Oil Company appeals a superior court judgment confirming a local improvement district assessment. We are asked to decide: (1) whether the front foot method of assessment is invalid as a matter of law; (2) if not, whether the city council determined that the front foot method more fairly reflects the special benefits to the property assessed than does the square foot "termini and zone" method; and (3) whether the assessment was imposed in an arbitrary and capricious manner or was calculated on a fundamentally wrong basis. We affirm.

In 1981, the City established local improvement district…