Friends of Maple Mountain, Inc. v. Mapleton City

WILKINS, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

T 1 Appellants, Friends of Maple Mountain (Friends), bring this appeal in the course of their pursuit to hold a citizens referendum challenging a zoning ordinance enacted by Mapleton City (Mapleton), which rezoned a portion of the foothills of Maple Mountain. Friends appeal the district court's decision that, under the test outlined by this court in Citizen's Awareness Now v. Marakis, 873 P.2d 1117 (Utah 1994), the zoning ordinance was administrative in nature and therefore nonreferable. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

T2 Mapleton is an incorporated city administered by a…