QUICK v. CITY OF AUSTIN

No. 96-1154.

7 S.W.3d 109 (1998)

Jerry J. QUICK, Kaira G. Quick, John M. Bryant, Ruth E. Bryant, Joe Cox, Dolores Cox, Florence Turck and Circle C Land Corp., Petitioners, v. CITY OF AUSTIN, Save Our Springs Legal Defense Fund, Inc. and Al St. Louis, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided May 8, 1998.

Opinion Granting Rehearing September 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Q. Minton, John L. Foster, Bob E. Shannon, Joseph R. Knight, Robert I. Howell, Scott K. Field, Joe R. Greenhill, Austin, for Petitioners.

William G. Bunch, Thomas H. Watkins, Andrew F. Martin, Elizabeth G. Bloch, James K. McClendon, Frank C. Cooksey, Pamela Stanton Baron, Austin, Michael A. Hatchell, Tyler, Dick DeGuerin, Houston, Teresa L. Todd, Marfa, for Respondents.


Justice ABBOTT delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are confronted with a challenge to the City of Austin's Save Our Springs Ordinance, a water pollution control measure enacted in 1992. Petitioners, who own land within the City of Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction, brought this action contesting the Ordinance. Petitioners claim that the Ordinance is arbitrary, unreasonable, and inefficient. Petitioners also assert that the Ordinance is void because it was...

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