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MARGOLIS v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE

Nos. 80SA110, 80SC43 and 80SC59.

638 P.2d 297 (1981)

Larry MARGOLIS, Wayne H. Roth and Robert Wiegand, II, Petitioners, v. DISTRICT COURT In and For the COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE and State of Colorado and the Honorable George B. Lee, Jr., one of the Judges thereof, Respondents. Robert R. WRIGHT, Edna S. Webster, and Norma D. Beard, Petitioners, v. The CITY OF LAKEWOOD, a Municipal Corporation; Charles E. Whitlock, Mayor of the City of Lakewood; and James Lee, John Morgan, Carolyn Bacher, Raymond Fink, James Eitzen, Paul Thompson, Sharron Carr, Lester Willson, Carl Neu, and Gaylor Smith, individually and as members of the Lakewood City Council of the City of Lakewood, Respondents. Jerry G. YANZ, Sandra K. Yanz, Walter E. Mader, Jr., Suzanne S. Mader, Raymond L. McLaren, Joanne E. McLaren, Paul H. Morris, Marie E. Wirsing, Herbert T. vonGoetz, Ruth C. vonGoetz, Peter de Steiguer, Bonnie S. de Steiguer, Gregory E. Lewis and Peggy J. Nelson, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF ARVADA, a Municipal Corporation, and Kenneth M. Gorrell, Vesta H. Miller, Robert Frie, and Jewell E. "Judy" Ford, individually and as members of the City Council of the City of Arvada, Harold N. "Hal" Heller, Rita Schnidt, and Rosemary J. Dooley, as members of the City Council of the City of Arvada, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McMartin, Burke, Loser & Fitzgerald, P. C., Ronald S. Loser, Herbert C. Phillips, Englewood, for petitioners in No. 80SA110.

Banta, Hoyt, Malone & Banta, P. C., J. Mark Hannen, Englewood, for respondents in No. 80SA110.

Blake T. Jordan, Wheat Ridge, for amicus curiae Colorado Municipal League in all cases.

Skelton, Oviatt & O'Dell, Jeffrey J. Kahn, Wheat Ridge, for petitioners in No. 80SC43.

Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Robert E. Warren, Jr., Susan K. Griffiths, John S. Pfeiffer, Denver, for respondents in No. 80SC43.

Calkins, Kramer, Grimshaw & Harring, Richard L. Harring, Denver, for amicus curiae Home Builders Ass'n of Metropolitan Denver.

Myles J. Dolan, Charles T. Flett, Arvada, for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 80SC59.

Benjamin King, Arvada City Atty., Arvada, Greengard, Blackman & Senter, Richard D. Greengard, Thomas S. Rice, Denver, for defendants-appellees in No. 80SC59.

LEE, Justice.

These three cases have been consolidated for the purpose of oral argument and opinion. They present the question whether zoning and rezoning by municipal governing bodies are legislative acts subject to challenge by popular referendum. We find that, in the context of these cases, zoning and rezoning are legislative in character and thus subject to the referendum and initiative powers reserved to the people under Colo.Const. art. V, sec. 1.

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