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SOFRAN CORP. v. CITY OF GREENSBORO

No. 531PA89.

393 S.E.2d 767 (1990)

327 N.C. 125

SOFRAN CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation; Theodore Allen Dunford; Clarice F. Dunford; Walter M. Forbes, Sr.; Aleane D. Forbes; Joseph Cooper Teasdale; Clara Cox Teasdale; Robert Lee Kabler; Cynthia Inez Kabler; Carl W. Rumley; Emily K. Rumley; W.E. Layton; Bessie M. Layton; Independent Faith Mission, a non-profit religious corporation; Robert Horace Swiggett, Jr.; Bobby S. McGuire; Doris S. Kerr, Paul F. Lackey; Rosemarie Lackey, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. The CITY OF GREENSBORO, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 26, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Brough & Associates by Frayda S. Bluestein and Michael B. Brough, Chapel Hill, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jesse L. Warren, City Atty., and A. Terry Wood, Deputy City Atty., Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.

WHICHARD, Justice.

This appeal arises from the reconsideration by the Greensboro City Council on 1 May 1989 of a zoning ordinance originally approved and adopted on 17 April 1989. Subsequently, petitions were filed calling for the repeal of the ordinance or a referendum thereon, a form of challenge to ordinances authorized by the Greensboro City Charter. We hold that because the referendum petition was not filed within the time limitations mandated by the charter...

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