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Provo council approves three ordinances on planning commission candidacy, truck idling and rental-license fines
Summary
The Provo Municipal Council unanimously approved three council-sponsored ordinance items March 24: requiring planning commissioners who run for office to take leave, enacting anti-idling restrictions for certain commercial trucks, and allowing unpaid civil fines to be grounds for denying or suspending rental dwelling license renewals.
The Provo Municipal Council on March 24 approved three council-sponsored ordinance items aimed at clarifying ethics and enforcement rules and addressing neighborhood impacts.
Tanner Toguchi, the council's policy analyst, presented each measure and answered council questions as the items moved forward as implied motions. The measures passed unanimously, 7-0, in separate votes.
The first ordinance would require members of the planning commission who become candidates for public office to take a leave of absence during their candidacy rather than having to resign. Toguchi said the proposal is intended "to ensure that the planning commission remains a nonpolitical advisory body" and noted the city modeled the language on an existing provision for neighborhood district executive boards. Councilors raised operational…
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