W-B Parking Ban Garners Supporters: Council Members Discuss Proposed Ordinance on Large Vehicles.
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By Kevin Amerman, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 22--WILKES-BARRE -- A majority of city council members seem to be on board with an ordinance that would ban drivers of tractor-trailers and other large vehicles from parking on city streets for extended periods.
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By The Commercial Appeal  The City Council will vote Oct. 3 on proposed changes to a local tax freeze program.
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By The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 2--The Bloomington Police Department is beefing up its corps of civilian volunteers who enforce handicapped-parking regulations -- something we advocated on this Opinion page a year ago.
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By Shawn Cetrone, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 16--Statesville's proposed ordinance to ban panhandling will not face a second reading at the City Council meeting Monday night.
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Residents will get a chance to tell the city council what they think about an ordinance that would halt the conversion of single-family houses into rental units for at least six months.
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Activists backing plans for congestion charging in Edinburgh seek to harness support as the ballot nears.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to decide by Wednesday whether automobile emissions tests could be mandatory for communities in the metropolitan area.
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By Laura Figueroa, The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Members of the Miami Lakes Town Council were back to a familiar discussion point at Tuesday night's council meeting: the fight to eliminate the county mitigation fee.
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By Brian Barber, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 28--Tulsa's City Council is considering an ordinance change that would allow commercial trash haulers to choose where they dispose of their waste.   The city now requires commercial haulers to take their loads to the Walter B.
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By Andrew Villegas, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 8--A resident group examining the feasibility of a regional transportation authority called Thursday for the Fort Collins City Council to reconsider its stance on the proposal.
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By Caryn Tamber  Maryland's top court has said the city of Frederick followed all the rules in condemning a property to build a parking garage.   The Court of Appeals yesterday agreed with two lower courts that the city was within its rights to condemn property owned by the J.P.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--BAY ST. LOUIS -- The 10-year anniversary of when Charles Gray first pushed his idea of a historic preservation ordinance to the Bay City Council is this summer.
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By Bernard Harris  Mayor asks for patience, but says city will not back away from single-hauler system that begins in October.  It was too late for the crowd that turned out in opposition to the city's new trash plan on Monday night.
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A much-debated plan to create &quot;African Town&quot; in Detroit got the go-ahead from the city council Monday, but this resolution is different from the one that some called unconstitutional.
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By Larry Sandler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 8--A measure to crack down on loitering by suspected gang members won new life Thursday with the backing of a Milwaukee Common Council committee.
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By Janice Rombeck, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 7--A proposal to significantly raise housing developers' fees to generate more parkland got unanimous support Wednesday from a San Jose advisory commission that has wrestled with the issue for two years.
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By Mike Torralba, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--MONROE -- The City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal that would have loosened restrictions on the number of duplexes in Monroe's historic residential district.