Israel v. Town of Cave Creek

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

¶ 1 Through a series of ordinances, the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Cave Creek undertook to annex land lying north of the town limits. The plaintiff, wishing to subject the annexation to a referendum, awaited the passage of the final ordinance before initiating the referendum process. The Town denied him a referendum petition serial number, maintaining that the last ordinance was merely an administrative conclusion to the annexation and that plaintiff had waited too long to challenge the first ordinance, assertedly the referable “legislative act.” On…