The increasingly testy fight over three Prairie Village petitions to put rezoning and governance measures on the ballot is now going to court. The city announced Thursday afternoon that it has filed a lawsuit seeking to have the petitions declared “legally insufficient,” arguing that both the petitions and the process to gather signatures for them violated state laws. Because of those reasons, the city argues, the petitions should not be put on the ballot. Prairie Village city officials want a Johnson County judge to reach a “declaratory judgment” that will “once and for all” decide the legal status of the three citizen-led measures before the Nov. 7 general election.
Source: Prairie Village Post