Council Approves CIP

been an issue for a while now — and some residents want more severe punishments. they talked with city council tonight — 47 abc’s michelle mackonockie was there. 02:22:46″over housing is bad for everyone.”02:22:48 track 1 too many people living in one house — a problem the city of salisbury has been dealing with for about thirty-five years now — according to mayor jim ireton’s office. there are about ten thousand homes in salisbury — and only four hundred and ten are allowed to have more than one family living in them. perhaps to be expected in a college town where students are renting. but kathie brittingham is a resident — concerned that too many houses are packing people in. 02:23:12″you have children that are more and more dilenquent because there’s more and more people per block.”02:23:17<butts ot 02:23:35″and this is not just a college situation that we’re seeing this is more just a general description.”02:23:40 track 2 according to the mayor — within the past year — 48 rental homes have been found to be illegally housing more than allowed. when that happens — the landlord is slapped with a 5-hundred dollar fine. residents like brittingham want that fine hiked — to a thousand. but city council president jake day says drastic action could poison the relationship between local government and young residents. and he argues — that relationship is central to revitalizing the area. 2:19:15″it largely has been focused on college students and again you look at the great revitilization and success stories around america, most of them are college towns and if they’re not, they’re still embracing millenials, they’re embracing young people.”02:19:28 track 5 day says he’s lived next door to a college students home for six years and has enjoyed every minute of it. and stresses that any good solution — will have to be a compromise. 02:20:36″you’ve got to set up the law to a way that its fair to everybody and then similtaneously we’ve got a responsibility as leaders to embrace young people and embrace students and embrace salisbury university.”02:20:46<b uttsot 2:18:42″the only way we’re going to get there is if there’s a great relationship between the university and the community around it.”2:18:46> tonight’s meeting was simply an open discussion– and there is no word on when a solution will be made. after a cold front pushes