Kerr v. Hallett

Defendants, the Medford city council and city recorder, appeal a circuit court order that, on a writ of review, reversed and remanded to the city council its decision to spread a street assessment for Poplar Drive against petitioner’s property. We reverse and remand.

Petitioner owns and lives on a 14,000 square foot, rectangular residential lot in Medford. In 1982, the city opened and improved Poplar Drive, which extends for several thousand feet north from Morrow Road to Crater Lake Highway. Petitioner’s west lot line fronts on the east line of Poplar Drive for 164 feet. His south lot line…