Tenants & Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION; ORDERS ON MOTIONS FOR DISMISSAL AND PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Plaintiffs are individuals who reside within the Yerba Buena Center Redevelopment Project Area D-l in San Francisco and an unincorporated association (Tenants and Owners in Opposition to Redevelopment — “TOOR”). On their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, they charge that their statutory and constitutional rights are being violated in connection with that Project.- Plaintiffs ask for declaratory relief and for an injunction prohibiting' the defendant San Francisco Redevelopment Agency from dislocating residents of the Yerba Buena Project Area and prohibiting the Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter “HUD”) from further funding of the Yerba Buena Project until defendants have complied with their statutory and constitutional obligations to plaintiffs.

The Court undertook to assist the parties in reaching a settlement of the complicated practical problems which must ultimately be solved in the interest of fair and effective resolution of their controversies. Since it has become clear that the parties are unable to…