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Danville commission posts revised cemetery rules for 90-day public comment after debate over 'grandfather' items
Summary
After public concern about long-standing memorials, the Danville City Commission voted to post revised cemetery rules and regulations for 90 days of public comment and to develop an appeals/waiver process before enforcement.
The Danville City Commission voted to post revised cemetery rules and regulations for 90 days of public comment and asked staff to work with the cemetery committee on a waiver and outreach process before enforcing changes.
The rules, presented to the commission as a final update to an iteration originating in 2006, tighten limits on flower beds, extend holiday display windows, ban new benches and fences, add service-animal language and remove a long-standing “grandfather” exception that had allowed older decorations and fixtures to remain.
“I had concern ... they were not going to grandfather in things that were already in the cemetery,” resident Tammy Stipes told the commission during the public comment period, saying she worried a family Jesus statue that has…
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