County Commission advances pipeline setbacks on first reading
Several dozen people gathered at a recent rally against the Byhalia Pipeline at Alonzo Weaver Park May 1, 2021. On Monday, the Memphis City Council advanced a joint city-county ordinance that would require oil pipelines to be at least 1,500 feet from homes, schools, places of worship, parks and family recreation areas. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Commissioners went ahead with a Monday vote on the Unified Development Code changes proposed by county Mayor Lee Harris. That despite the Byhalia Connection Pipeline companies urging a delay.
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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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