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Council adopts rewritten residency restriction ordinance with 1,250-foot buffer; attorney warns on available-unit counts
Summary
The Common Council adopted a rewritten residency restriction ordinance for registered offenders with a 1,250-foot buffer on Aug. 19 and created a mayor-appointed three-member appeal board to hear administrative appeals.
The Franklin Common Council on Aug. 19 adopted an ordinance to repeal and recreate the municipal code section on residence restrictions for registered offenders, setting a 1,250-foot buffer between offenders’ residences and specified child-focused facilities and establishing a mayor-appointed three-member council appeal board.
City Attorney briefed the council on mapping updates completed after the last meeting; three parks had been added to the maps and staff recalculated the number of “available living units” under several buffer distances. The attorney presented computed percentages of available residential units at each tested distance:…
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