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CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS v. WURTELE

Nos. 50256, 50257, 50283 to 50285.

291 N.W.2d 386 (1980)

The CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, petitioner, respondent, v. Angus WURTELE, et al., respondents-below, Bessie M. Seeley, et al., respondents-below, Appellants, R. E. Short Co., respondent-below, Appellant, Robert R. BIGLOW and Hartley Nordin, respondents-below, Appellants, v. OXFORD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, intervenor, Oxford Properties, U. S., Ltd. and MCC Development Company, Inc., intervenors, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 28, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moriarty, Whaley, Jansen & Woods and Louis J. Moriarty, Minneapolis, for Seeley, et al.

Foster, Jensen & Short and Brian P. Short, Minneapolis, for R. E. Short Co.

Robert R. Biglow and Hartley Nordin, Minneapolis, for Biglow and Nordin.

Robert J. Alfton, City Atty., and Jerome F. Fitzgerald and Joseph M. LaBat, Asst. City Attys., Minneapolis, for City of Minneapolis.

Mackall, Crounse & Moore and Connor F. Schmid, Faegre & Benson and James A. Dueholm, Minneapolis, for Oxford Properties, U. S., Ltd., et al.

Fredrikson, Byron, Colborn, Bisbee & Hansen and Marsha A. Freeman, Minneapolis, for Credit Pub. Co., amicus curiae.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

PETERSON, Justice.

The Development District Law, Minn. Stat. ch. 472A (1978), was designed to allow municipalities to designate as "development districts" areas which, while not yet "blighted," show a trend toward decreasing economic utility and tax base. Designation of a development district allows a city to implement a program of improvements and to acquire through purchase or eminent domain whatever property it needs for implementation of its program.

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