Council delays Waste Connections plan vote
Yvonne Nelson (left) covers her nose against the odor during a tour of the Waste Connections of Tennessee facility on Brooks Road on June 12, 2019. The Memphis City Council delayed a vote Tuesday on an expansion of the facility. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
A light City Council agenda Tuesday got a bit lighter with delays in decisions on a controversial Whitehaven planned development and amendments to the Unified Development Code.
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