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Portland didn't bother with a noise ordinance until this past year, when residents grew weary of trash haulers banging about before daylight.
There was widespread outrage and within days his government was forced to backtrack, suspending the ordinance until a committee had reviewed it.Charges were also dropped against 200 journalists who had protested in the capital, Islamabad, in defiance of a ban on such demonstrations.
"There was this surge of predatory lending with all of these subprime loans that were pressed upon the community," said Carol Lamont, who has worked in Bay Area affordable housing for more than two decades and managed East Palo Alto's rent control ordinance until this year.
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Although about 50 cities have passed living-wage ordinances, until now the laws have been applied only to city contractors, companies leasing city land or those receiving economic development money.
To add insult to injury, their children may not participate in meaningful ordinances until they are eighteen, at which point they must disavow their parents' marriage.
The new "replacement" law similarly invalidates pre-existing local anti-discrimination statutes protecting LGBTQ people, doesn't allow passage of new anti-discrimination ordinances until 2020 (when Republicans will surely attempt to extend the law ) and prevents localities and public entities from protecting access to rest rooms for transgender people.
Further, the new policy forbids children in these same-sex households from receiving a christening blessing, being baptized, doing missionary service, or participating in other ordinances until they are over 18 years old, move out of their home, and "disavow" support for same-sex marriages.
With the mayor waiting to introduce these ordinance changes until the holiday season, few in the city know their provisions.
The ordinance, rarely enforced until now, sought to promote an open, uncluttered look for residential streets and to prevent tall hedges from blocking views or casting shadows on neighboring properties.
The ordinance was rarely enforced until recently, when residents in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, complained that crowded sidewalks blocked the way for morning churchgoers.
"I call on the City Council to pass an ordinance barring these deals until the next mayor and the next Council take office," said Alan G. Hevesi, the city comptroller and Democratic candidate for mayor.
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