[The threat of litigation by the owner of a rental property has the Fayetteville City Attorney Kit Williams ready to defend the city’s definition of a family.] I almost always recommend the City Council do the safest thing. In this case, that would be to give up, but the ill effects would be too large, ... Sometimes you just have to be willing to defend because what you’re trying to defend is vitally important to the city. |
A liquor-by-the-drink permit tells the state you are a restaurant. I think it's inconsistent to call yourself a restaurant at the state level and tell the city that you're a bar. |
and decide that you can’t spend more to collect it than you’re going to collect. |
hundred of thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees. |
I am not saying that Fayetteville could not be sued if this conditional use is denied. However, I cannot concede that the city and its citizens have absolutely no right to protect single-family residential neighborhoods if a use is deemed incompatible. |
I think this will be better because (violators) won?t get as far behind, so it?s easier, hopefully, for them to catch back up. |
I'm not sure why there's that much. It could be because we sped up the process. We had several that were fairly large payments, so we collected quite a bit of money. |
It was in the city's interest to get rid of this blight and bring a quality hotel, parking deck and convention facility to the square, and that's why it's worth the investment to do that. That's why the City Council voted in favor of this, |
live the dream Dr. King spoke of. |
The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation. |
The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law. |
This thing would pay for itself to the city over time. This will generate new sales tax. I don't think anything would have happened on that site. It would have sat there and decayed without the help the city has provided through this redevelopment district. If the project would have worked without the city investing $3 million, then that site would have been developed a long time ago. |