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Vienna council rejects proposed limits on contractor landscaping after heated public hearing
Summary
After a public hearing with competing testimony from residents and landscapers, the Vienna Town Council voted 6–1 on Dec. 8 to defeat proposed amendments that would have banned contractor landscaping on federal holidays and delayed the start time for multiple powered landscaping machines from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
The Vienna Town Council on Dec. 8 declined to move forward with proposed amendments to chapter 10-20.1 of the town code that would have extended the town's existing Sunday restriction on for-hire noisy work to federal holidays and prohibited the use of two or more powered landscaping machines on a residential lot before 8:00 a.m.
Police Chief Eric presented the ordinance at a public hearing, explaining the two changes: adding federal holidays to the existing contractor ban now in code for Sundays, and changing the start time for "multiple equipment use" (defined in the draft as two or more gas-powered or electric landscaping machines on one residential lot) from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
About a dozen members of the public and several local landscaping businesses spoke during the hearing. Penny Ozak read…
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