State ex rel. Oster v. Lorain County Board of Elections

On June 7, 2001, the Council of respondent city of Lorain, Ohio, enacted Ordinance No. 77-01, which reclassified approximately 202.7 acres of land from R-1A “Residential” to R-PUD “Residential Planned Unit Development.” Intervening respondent, Committee for the Referendum of Ordinance No. 77-01, Citizens for a Better Lorain (“committee”), circulated a referendum petition requesting that Ordinance No. 77-01 be submitted to Lorain voters at the November 6, 2001 general election.

Circulators of the petition applied the following procedure, which is the usual and customary manner in which petition…