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Spartanburg council adopts tighter code-enforcement rules and rewrites protest sound rule
Summary
The City Council approved changes to the property-maintenance and enforcement sections of the city code, tightened rules on storing trailer coaches on public streets and removed a blanket ban on amplified sound from the picketing ordinance, instead regulating amplification under the noise ordinance; council adopted the revisions by voice vote with one recorded nay.
The Spartanburg City Council voted to adopt edits to multiple sections of the city code intended to clarify property-maintenance definitions, strengthen enforcement for repeat offenders and change how amplified sound during protests is regulated.
Assistant city staff presented language tightening the definition of "structure," adding specific removal-required items (fallen tree limbs, rotting food, accumulated rubbish) and instituting a one-year notice for repeat offenders so that enforcement is not repeatedly reset by repeated notices.…
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