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Winchester commission outlines neighborhood task force to address recurring code and service complaints
Summary
Commissioners agreed to form a resident-centered task force to hold neighborhood meetings, prioritize recurring code-enforcement problems (weeds, large-item pickup, accessibility) and recommend updates to outdated ordinances; members' names are due by the second week in September.
Speaker 1 on the commission opened a work-session discussion about frequent resident calls and invited the commission to form a task force to take those concerns into neighborhoods and report back.
The task force would be a small, neighborhood-focused group. "Has 4 or 5 people that are basically this is the task force and then they would lead open discussions in several different areas of the community," Speaker 3 said, describing meetings at libraries, churches and neighborhood sites so local residents can set priorities rather than the commission identifying individual properties.
Commissioners and staff described several…
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