Opinion ID: 2590389
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: Disposition: the City Hall Petition is administrative because of the weight given to the third guideline under these facts.

Text: In weighing the four guidelines to the City Hall Petition, we find it is principally executive or administrative in nature. We do so even though we find it legislative in character under three of our four guidelines. This is because its prohibition against locating the city hall facilities is so extensive that it makes unavailable more than 90 percent of the City's geographic territory. This has the practical effect of dictating where the City locates its city hall facilities. Such a restriction necessarily limits and intrudes to a substantial extent into areas of city administration requiring specialized knowledge about city affairs, regulatory requirements, long-range planning, and financing. These are all subject matters typically left to city administrators. We find this intrusion into the efficient administration of the City's operations is so overreaching that it outweighs the three guidelines that arguably appear to have more legislative character to them. The district court was correct in describing the City Hall Petition as administrative.