The Arizona Republic reports. The clerk and her staff now must determine the validity of the signatures; it will take 9,093 valid voter signatures to get the question on the ballot.The Mesa City Council adopted the ordinance March 1, banning discrimination in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, veteran’s status, marital status, genetic information, or familial status.
It is set to go into effect June 29. Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, is Arizona’s third-largest city, with about 500,000 residents; only Phoenix and Tucson are more populous.Mesa Mayor John Giles, who supported the ordinance, lamented.