CITY OF DES MOINES v. CITY DEVELOPMENT BD.

Nos. 00-0419.

633 N.W.2d 305 (2001)

CITY OF DES MOINES, Appellant, v. CITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF THE STATE of Iowa, Warren County, Iowa, The Iowa Rural Rights Association, Robert Dunn, June Tenhagen, David Van Patten, Raymond E. Phillips, Jr., Steve Klinefelter, Peg Klinefelter, William Don Harbert, Jim Shelley, Wayne Jones, Jo Jones, Bruce Strain, Debbie Cunningham, Car Cunningham, and John Francis Anderson, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 6, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Godwin, Deputy City Attorney, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General and Christie J. Scase, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee City Development Board.

Robert H. Freilich of Freilich, Leitner & Carlisle, Kansas City, Missouri, and Kevin Parker, Warren County Attorney, for appellee Warren County.

James E. Van Werden of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Adel, for individual appellees and appellee Iowa Rural Rights Association.

John F. Anderson, Des Moines, pro se, appellee.


CADY, Justice.

In this appeal, we must decide if the district court had jurisdiction to hear a petition for judicial review of a decision by the City Development Board of Iowa to stay proceedings on a petition for annexation filed by the City of Des Moines. We conclude the district court did not have jurisdiction and affirm the decision of the district court.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

In June 1998, the City of Des Moines (Des Moines) filed...

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