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Residents ask council to explain mismatch between spoken vote and published ordinance wording
Summary
Residents at the Nov. 3 Vandalia City Council meeting asked city staff to explain an apparent mismatch between what council members said they approved at a March hearing and the text of the published Ordinance 25-02, focusing on whether traffic-study recommendations must be implemented before final plan approval.
At the start of the public-comment period a resident asked for clarification about the published text of Ordinance 25-02, saying the ordinance on the city website and on an outside legal publisher does not match what was read and apparently approved at the second reading on March 3.
Robert Shanahan said he reviewed the March 3 video and read the councilmember’s remarks that he says included a specific condition: “the completion of a traffic study prior and implementation of…
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