DOWNTOWN PALO ALTO COM. FOR FAIR v. CITY COUNCIL

Docket No. A024556.

180 Cal.App.3d 384 (1986)

225 Cal. Rptr. 559

DOWNTOWN PALO ALTO COMMITTEE FOR FAIR ASSESSMENT et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY COUNCIL OF PALO ALTO et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

April 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Thoits, Lehman & Love, Diana Berghausen, Vivian L. Kral and Stephen C. Gerrish for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Diane M. Lee, City Attorney, Anthony C. Bennetti and Clark E. Guinan, Jr., Assistant City Attorneys, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

NEWSOM, J.

Appellants are operators of businesses in the downtown area of the City of Palo Alto (hereafter sometimes the City) who are affected by an ordinance enacted by respondent creating a Downtown Business Improvement Area and permitting annual charges to be assessed against businesses in the designated improvement area. By way of a petition for writ of mandate filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court, appellants challenged...

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