Remember that zoning code we've been working on for four years? Just finished and about to become codified? Well, city council wants to make some changes.
If you recall, our old code was a byzantine disaster area, from so many changes and caveats, from 50 years of city councils claws sinking in... Get ready to start that process again!
"This does not bode well," says Harris Steinberg, executive director of nonprofit design group PennPraxis. "Council had their fingers in the old zoning code so deep that nothing could get done, and that's one of the reasons why we had to have a new code."
Council President Darrel Clark's amendment was the most interesting, making it more difficult and making punishments more severe for working as a nonunion contractor. Punsihments now include siezing your truck and all your tools! I guess the Post Brothers are really scaring the shit out of Union City....
City Planning commision, you know, the people who study this issue, make it thier career to understand all related issues, look to other cities for working examples, and then try to guide our city forward, were, understanably, nonplussed.
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