Neighborhood group Save Vancouver Streets will proceed battling in court docket for an initiative requiring voter approval to take away metropolis visitors lanes to achieve the poll.
On Friday, the grassroots group filed an attraction within the state Court docket of Appeals, Division II, difficult a Clark County Superior Court docket choose’s latest determination.
Choose Derek Vanderwood dominated in late June that the Vancouver Metropolis Council acted inside its authority in declaring the initiative legally invalid.
In his order, Vanderwood reiterated a lot of the metropolis’s unique argument. The initiative seeks to usurp the town’s complete plan adopted beneath the Progress Administration Act; impacts the town’s beforehand adopted plans versus creating new legislation or coverage; and embraces a number of topics, making it invalid beneath the Vancouver Metropolis Constitution, he wrote.
Greater than 6,500 folks signed the poll initiative final yr, in keeping with Save Vancouver Streets, after neighborhood backlash concerning the town’s plans to take away automobile lanes for bike or bus lanes on McGillivray and Mill Plain boulevards, amongst others.
A spokeswoman for the town of Vancouver declined to remark however mentioned the town is reviewing the attraction.
