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At the Mayor & Council meeting on Tuesday, we voted to approve a purchase order for substantial renovations to the first floor of City Hall. These include things like carpet replacement and reshuffling office space, but most notably they involve building walls around the lobby and installing key-card doors. When the work is complete, you…

At the Mayor and Council meeting on Tuesday, we unanimously passed a resolution prohibiting street parking inside the cul-de-sacs in Brunswick Crossing that have an island in their middle (i.e., where there’s a circular curb inside the cul-de-sac rather than just pavement). Since the vote was unanimous, I won’t dwell too long on it, but…

At the Mayor and Council meeting on Tuesday, the council was asked to consent to a purchase order of just under $200k to hire consultants to help with the upcoming zoning ordinance rewrite. I voted in favor of it, as did the other council members. But since my knee-jerk reaction to hearing the word “consultant”…

I took my first contested vote last Tuesday, so I’ll explain my reasoning for it here. The Planning Department had proposed an ordinance to ban furniture manufactured for indoor use from being placed outside. The justification for it was that indoor furniture poses a risk of turning into a health hazard outdoors through mold and…