City Council marks one year of exile from City Hall chambers
Repairs at City Hall, including a leak in the City Council Chambers room, caused council members to meet elsewhere even before the pandemic. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The first online council meeting of the year comes with some changes in committee chairmanships and votes on down-zoning two parts of Summer Avenue as well as new penalties for illegal street racing.
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