City Council punts vote on Chickasaw Gardens gates to new year
Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. moved for the delay. (Benjamin Naylor/Daily Memphian file)
The proposed gates have been met with opposition, with an attorney for those in surrounding neighborhoods saying it gives “at least the appearance of being elitist and exclusionary.”
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