State ex rel. Committee for Proposed Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 146-02 v. City of Lakewood

{¶ 1} On December 16, 2002, respondent Lakewood City Council enacted Ordinance No. 146-02 as an emergency ordinance approving the community development plan for the city’s west end district.

{¶ 2} On August 18, 2003, relator Committee for the Proposed Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 146-02, West End Blight Designation, filed with respondent Lakewood Clerk of Council Mary Hagan an initiative petition containing 1,817 signatures for the proposed ordinance. On that same day, the petition was delivered to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections to verify the signatures. On August 26, 2003, the…