San Telmo Associates v. City of Seattle

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• noting that RCW 82.02.020 would not prohibit the State from imposing the exaction at issue in the case
• ordinance restricting rights of low-income housing owners to convert to non-residential use deemed unconstitutional tax
• “[W]hile Const, art. 7, § 9 and Const. art. 11, § 12 authorize the Legislature to grant municipalities the power under certain conditions to levy taxes, there must be a specific legislative pronouncement allowing for the tax in order for the tax to be valid.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).