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The Santa Monica City Council passed two ordinances on the homeless that require charities that offer free outdoor meals to have Health Department permits and make it illegal to sit or lie in doorways downtown at night.
Both Mr. Wager and his fellow commissioner who has sided with him on these two ordinances, Ernie Troiano Jr., say that they have been told that hermit crabs can cause salmonella poisoning and that state health officials have told them sales of hermit crabs should be regulated.
Actually, whatever the recipe, I always think of Anna when I cook pasta, remembering her two ordinances: one, that the water you cook pasta in should be as salty as the Mediterranean; and two, that pasta should not be too officiously drained, but rather be "con la goccia", that's to say, with still some cooking water clinging to it, as this makes it easier to incorporate the sauce.
But amid widespread criticism that they have gone too far, some council members are talking about softening two ordinances that give authorities wide latitude in confiscating and destroying homeless people's property.
Several sections of the city's zoning code are up for a future vote, specifically two ordinances working in tandem that will affect the Downtown Village Specific Plan and the Community Planned Development zone in order to address the growth and associated criminal problems of the industry in other cities, which occurred mostly between 2009 and 2014, according to the staff report.
Earlier this month, the Chicago City Council overwhelmingly approved two ordinances Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced to crack down on expected NATO and G8 protesters via stricter rules for parade organizers, increased fines for resisting arrest and a green light for the mayor's blanket spending authority for the summits going forward.
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On July 26 he issued four ordinances which, through their repressive measures, provoked revolution by the Paris radicals.
The City Council yesterday approved three of six ordinances proposed as part of Mayor Cory A. Booker's efforts to revamp the way City Hall does business.
The movement started in France, prompted by Charles X's publication on July 26 of four ordinances dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, suspending freedom of the press, modifying the electoral laws so that three-fourths of the electorate lost their votes, and calling for new elections to the Chamber in September.
Skokie immediately passed three ordinances aimed at preventing the group from meeting in Skokie.
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