Monday, August 17, 2009

City Council Session -- Aug. 17

Tonight's Aurora City Council meeting is scheduled to feature the next decision in the controversial Carriage Place fence issue, a question that would create a new taxing district in one local neighborhood to establish a new brick masonry fence.
 The General Improvement District in question would fund a new masonry fence for the area, a structure planned to run more than 2,200 linear feet and to cost about $1.19 million, according to the city’s estimates.
In recent months, the question has become a hotly contested issue in the neighborhood, with supporters saying that the structure would add to the neighborhood’s property values and critics blasting the petition process behind the initiative, claiming that signatures were illegally dropped.
Tonight's session will also include an update on a proposed impound law, one that would have forced police to tow vehicles driven by unlicensed drivers. Last week, a judge put the measure on hold, ruling that a petition associated with the measure was invalid due to the failure to include the complete text of the suggested measure.

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