Martin v. City of Tigard

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment on a writ of review brought to challenge the city’s formation of a local improvement district (LID) for the construction of a public street and the city’s assessments levied for that purpose. We find no merit to plaintiffs’ particular challenges to the formation of the LID. The parties concede, however, that a portion of the planned improvement1 is not within the legal boundaries of the LID and that, therefore, the cost of constructing that portion cannot lawfully be included in the assessment. We agree. See ORS 223.389.

When a defect in an LID assessment…