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Columbia council advances ordinance packet; lengthy debate over rental-property rules and temporary certificates
Summary
Council workshop advanced multiple ordinances for advertisement and flagged a comprehensive rental-property rewrite (I-66) for detailed review after extended line-by-line debate on temporary certificates of occupancy, off-street parking and accessory dwelling-unit definitions.
Columbia Borough Council on March 3 moved forward with advertising a set of ordinances while devoting the bulk of the workshop to a contentious, detailed review of a proposed rental-property ordinance.
The packet of proposed ordinances reviewed for advertisement included measures on key-lock boxes, volunteer-service tax credits, fire-code alignment, food-truck operations and revised River Park parking rules; councilmembers asked staff to remove obsolete references (for example to a 1968 Pennsylvania agreement) and to consolidate advertising notices to reduce cost. Council also scheduled further review for the food-truck ordinance after the solicitor…
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