| Wellsville
temporarily halts subdivisions to await sewer permit
By Riki Richards
March 22, 2007 | WELLSVILLE -- The Wellsville City
Council voted to support a temporary code amendment
that block any more residential or commercial subdivisions
until the state can issue a new sewer permit.
In the meeting Wednesday the council decided that
it is in Wellsville's best interest to put a hold on
any more subdivisions before a public hearing April
4 with representatives from the state. The council will
then hear the state's recommendations to decrease the
amount of phosphorus in the city waste system to acceptable
levels.
The moratorium will remain in place until the council
can decide how to deal with the waste produced by the
city's rapidly multiplying population. The council did
not estimate the time this will take, but it was suggested
that it may be months or years before a decision can
be reached.
The council also approved an amendment to code that
regulates the hours cars can be parked on city streets
during winter.
The code, as amended, now states that people are prohibited
from parking their cars on city streets between midnight
and 8 a.m. for more than five minutes for loading and
unloading from Nov. 1 until April 1 for snow removal.
The council changed the time from midnight to 6 a.m.
because there were several cases when the roads could
not be completely cleared by 6 a.m., causing snowplows
to weave in and out of parked cars.
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