FRIENDS OF CONGRESS SQUARE PARK v. PORTLAND

No. Cum-13-502.

91 A.3d 601 (2014)

2014 ME 63

FRIENDS OF CONGRESS SQUARE PARK et al. v. CITY OF PORTLAND.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: May 6, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danielle West-Chuhta, Esq. , and Jennifer Thompson, Esq. , (orally), City of Portland, Portland, for appellant City of Portland.

Sarah A. McDaniel, Esq. (orally), Douglas McDaniel Campo & Schools LLC, PA, Westbrook, and Robert H. Levin, Esq. , Portland, for appellees Friends of Congress Square Park, Frank R. Turek, David R. LaCasse, Herbert C. Adams, and Patricia M. O'Donnell.

Sarah A. McDaniel, Esq. , argued, for appellees Friends of Congress Square Park, Frank R. Turek, David R. LaCasse, Herbert C. Adams, and Patricia M. O'Donnell.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


GORMAN, J.

[¶ 1] The City of Portland appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Wheeler, J..), pursuant to M.R. Civ. P. 80B, ordering the City to issue petition forms for a citizens' initiative submitted by Friends of Congress Square Park and four Portland residents1 to amend the City's land bank ordinance. Because the proposed amendments are legislative, we conclude that the citizens' initiative...

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