The Tacoma City Council's plan to put dueling tenant-protection measures on the November ballot has been rejected by a Pierce County Superior Court Judge, who ruled this week that one of the proposed ballot measures was "not a true alternative" for voters.

As a result of Judge Timothy Ashcraft's ruling, a more expansive tenant-protection measure, proposed by a citizen-led initiative called Tacoma for All, will remain on the ballot while a competing ballot question—crafted by the City Council—will not appear on the ballot.

Here's what the City Council did: when Tacoma for All gathered 7,000 signatures to put its tenant-protection measure, called Measure 1, on the ballot, the Council passed an ordinance enacting a more-restrictive tenant-protection ordinance.