Shelby County mayor suggests new way to stop pipeline project
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is asking the Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board to consider changing local land use codes to keep pipelines from being built within 1,500 feet of homes, schools, churches, parks or recreation centers. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris believes he may have found a way to stop the Byhalia Connection oil pipeline. Or at least give the community a tool for better regulating projects like it in the future.
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Blake Fontenay
Blake Fontenay’s 27-year journalism career has taken him to many newspapers in four states. However, he had never returned to work in any of the other cities where he had been before until the opportunity to report for the Daily Memphian presented itself. He covers business for the Daily Memphian.
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