Parking garage plan gets first Council vote
County Homestead program becomes joint city-county ‘Building Home’ program
Memphis City Council members take the first of three votes on a proposal by member Philip Spinosa to fine the owners of Downtown parking garages who don’t maintain safety standards. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis City Council members take the first of three votes Tuesday, May 6, on a proposal to fine the owners of Downtown parking garages who don’t maintain safety standards and pick up their trash.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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