Opinion ID: 2755001
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Text: ¶1 On petition for writ of extraordinary relief, petitioners Lana Mawhinney, Christine McClory, and James Whitehead (collectively, Petitioners) ask us to order the City of Draper (City) to certify their petition for referendum. Specifically, they seek to refer Resolution No. TRSSD 14-02 (Resolution) to the voters of the Traverse Ridge Special Service District (District) in the November 2014 general election. The Resolution, enacted on June 24, 2014, levies a tax on the property within the District. MAWHINNEY v. DRAPER CITY Opinion of the Court ¶2 The City refused to certify the petition, asserting that the tax levy was a nonreferable administrative action and that the subjurisdictional referendum statute, pursuant to which the petitioners sought the referendum, unconstitutionally limits the number of Draper City residents who are entitled to vote on the issue. We grant Petitioners’ requested relief because the Resolution was improperly rejected by the City. The Resolution, which levies a tax, is properly referable to the voters because it is legislative in nature. And we are unpersuaded by the City’s constitutional challenge to the subjurisdictional referendum statute.