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Akron committees advance sewer rate amendment and multiple public-works contracts; planning committee moves to restrict vape shops
Summary
Planning committee gave favorable report and suspended rules on smoke-shop licensing and zoning changes to remove vape shops as conditional uses; Public Service committee approved sewer ordinance changes and several contracts including Lock 3 landscaping; Public Safety committee recommended extension for Leeds Online database service.
Multiple Akron City Council committees met and advanced several measures that will move to the full council for final action.
Planning and Economic Development Committee: The committee moved to give a favorable report and suspend the rules on two related ordinances to add smoke-shop licensing (Title 11) and to amend the zoning code (Title 15) by adding definitions and development requirements for smoke shops and by eliminating vape shops as a conditional use in certain sections. Councilmen Fusco, Kammer, Connor, Boyes and Hannah provided a roll-call affirmation on the motion; the committee recorded a…
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