city council votes

After demonstrations by both supporters and opponents of a proposed ban on plastic single-use shopping bags, Austin City Council members voted to continue research on the ban 12 hours after their meeting began.

The City Council postponed voting on the issue until the end of their meeting that started at 10 a.m. and included an extended lunch break.

Members also postponed voting on whether to delay implementation of extended hours for downtown parking meters until a later meeting.

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See this account of a developer's struggle to gain approval for I'On, a New Urbanist community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, just outside Charleston:

See this account of a developer's struggle to gain approval for I'On, a New Urbanist community in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, just outside Charleston: