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Votes at a glance: Easly City advances franchise, peddler rules and several annexations
Summary
Council approved a second reading franchise agreement with a regional fiber provider, advanced a peddler ordinance, and moved multiple annexations and incentive agreements for further reading; votes were by voice and items will return for additional review.
Easly City Council recorded the following procedural outcomes and votes Monday (voice votes unless noted):
- Ordinance 20-26-17 (franchise agreement with Wired 3/Wire3 fiber ISP): motion to accept passed with no opposition after a company presentation on local service and construction notice plans.
- Ordinance 20-26-19 (add chapter 123 for solicitors, canvassers and peddlers): first reading held; council voted to advance the ordinance and directed staff to prepare agreed amendments between first and second reading.
- Ordinance 20-26-20 (annex ~13.16 acres, Latham Road LLC; office/institutional zoning for proposed charter school): advanced for further review and public input.
- Ordinance 20-26-21 (mobile food vendors amendment): first reading advanced; council agreed to refine amendments (add beverages, revise agency oversight from DHEC to Department of Agriculture, change local official responsibility) before second reading.
- Ordinances 20-26-22 and 20-26-23 (Freeman Real Estate LLC annexations totaling ~15.827 acres; designate GC): both accepted and advanced for additional review.
- Ordinance 20-26-24 (rezone ~17.05 acres from residential to GC): accepted and advanced.
- Ordinance 20-26-25 (incentive agreement with R.T. Calhoun Memorial LLC): accepted and advanced; council debated incentives, FOIA-related provisions and a clause referencing the city’s consideration of eminent domain for access rights.
Several motions were advanced by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript. Council asked staff to return with further traffic, fiscal and contract-language clarifications prior to final readings.
