• 1865, the Board of Trustees of the Town of Seattle, Washington Territory, passed Ordinance No. 5, subtitled An Ordinance for the Removal of Indians, expelling...
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    after the Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5 banned all Native Americans from the town unless housed and employed by a white settler. Seattle then moved...
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    Duwamish people (category Native American history of Washington (state))
    expelled from the town of Seattle following the passage of Town of Seattle Ordinance No. 5. Efforts were made to increase the size of the already existing...
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  • motel in the same area, had also been targeted using Seattle's "Chronic Nuisance Properties" ordinance but fared slightly better; by tightening security...
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    new building ordinance resulted in a downtown of brick and stone buildings, rather than wood. In the year following the fire Seattle's population actually...
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  • 1948 that racial restrictions would no longer be enforced. The Seattle Open Housing Ordinance became effective in 1968. Although unenforceable, legal complications...
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    article of a series that covers the history of Seattle, Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. Seattle is a...
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    a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States. Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as...
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    News. April 5, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018. "City of Port Townsend Chapter 6.25" (PDF). Retrieved August 13, 2013. "Seattle Ordinance No 123775". Retrieved...
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    16, 2016. AN ORDINANCE related to human rights; and adding a new Chapter 14.21 to the Seattle Municipal Code to prohibit the practice of conversion therapy...
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    January 27, 2013. "Seattle Ordinance 122944". City of Seattle. Retrieved December 18, 2012. AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Center Department; authorizing...
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    the basis of freedom of expression in protest, or simply that exposure of breasts is not indecent (or similar terminology). Laws and ordinances barring...
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  • Processes". Department of Neighborhoods, City of Seattle. Retrieved June 29, 2011. "Ordinance 114771" (PDF). Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. October...
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    miles (24 km) east of Seattle. The population was 73,256 at the 2020 census. Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America. The city...
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    Bikini barista (category Culture of Seattle)
    the premise of the ordinance violating the Equal Protection Clause but rejecting the baristas' argument of it violating their freedom of expression. In...
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  • Seattle had become a thriving town, several members of the Denny Party still survived; they and many of their descendants were in local positions of power...
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    on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle metropolitan area, with Seattle to its west and...
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    Schultz opposed Seattle's ordinance to raise the local minimum wage to $15, which at the time was the highest in the nation. The ordinance passed. From 2005...
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    region of King County, Washington, United States. The mostly residential city is on a peninsula in Lake Washington, on the opposite shore from Seattle, bordered...
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    2017. Seattle City Council (December 17, 2015). "City of Seattle Ordinance 118584". Office of the City Clerk. Retrieved January 10, 2016. Burton, Lynsi...
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    February 19, 1959. The town's late 20th century population growth has been mostly as a commuter community for people with jobs in Seattle, Bellevue, and suburban...
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    a longhouse roughly 13.5 miles (21.7 km) northwest of Downtown Seattle near the present-day town of Suquamish. Measuring roughly 800 feet (240 m) in length...
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    overturned ordinances in those cities, sharing many of the same campaign strategies that were used in Miami. Save Our Children was also involved in Seattle, Washington...
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  • school. The defeat of this measure, and of an ordinance repeal measure in Seattle, Washington, the same day, stalled the momentum of the repeal forces...
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    Protesters held frequent town hall meetings to decide strategy and make plans. Seattle officials said that they saw no evidence of antifa groups organizing...
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    decrease the value of home. The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Village of Euclid, Ohio v....
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    advantage of the precedent of an 1896 Seattle city ordinance that allowed the city to designate tracts of land as public markets and designated a portion of the...
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    Kingdome (redirect from Seattle Kingdome)
    (December 5, 1977). "Seattle Stadium Suit a Legal Test on Cost Overruns". The New York Times. p. 18. Retrieved February 24, 2021. AN ORDINANCE relating...
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    Cochise County Cowboys (category Outlaw gangs of the American Old West)
    dirks, are included within the prohibition of this ordinance. The initial version of Ordinance No. 9, in effect in April, 1880 unintentionally allowed...
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    himself as a power in Seattle, "The Statesman", "The Boss Sport", ward heeler of the wide-open Fourth Ward. He became a power in town, and was locally famous...
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