Regus

Defendant City of Baldwin Park (City) on 3 and 8 July 1975, adopted ordinances No. 709 and No. 708 approving a redevelopment plan for the Puente-Merced/South Baldwin Park Redevelopment Project (Project) submitted to it by the Baldwin Park Redevelopment Agency (Redevelopment Agency). On 29 August 1975 plaintiffs filed their complaint challenging the project, pleading both a validation action (Code Civ. Proc., § 863 and Health & Saf. Code, §§ 33500, 33501) and a taxpayer’s action to enjoin illegal municipal expenditures (Code Civ. Proc., § 526a). Individual plaintiffs are residents and taxpayers of City who own real properties assessed for taxes within one year last past by the County of Los Angeles and by taxing agencies levying taxes upon property within Project boundaries. Plaintiff League to Preserve Constitutional and Civil Rights (League) is an unincorporated association composed of City residents. No individual plaintiff or member of League resides within or owns or pays taxes on property within Project boundaries.

The trial court concluded that none of plaintiffs had standing to prosecute the action, but it nevertheless reviewed the administrative record before the…