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Calmer Days at Old Capitol Mall Bus Stop?: Iowa City Daily Links, Feb. 18
A quick rundown of local news.
You know in retrospect, Kevin Costner wasn't that bad of an actor.
On to the Links.
From this Site
The Iowa City Bike Library is moving to a different location from its current spot in the old Wilson's Sports building.
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At a general assembly Thursday night, Occupy Iowa City decided not to appeal the city's decision to not issue the group another permit.
A local man is trying to translate his taco truck's success into a new sit down restaurant.
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Our Iowa editor writes about viewing police officers from the other side of the shield.
Our feature Iowa City animal shelter pet of the week was adopted. I'll have another animal to feature tomorrow afternoon.
From Other Sites
The developers of the property that used to be the Red Avocado aren't too pleased about the city council discussing zoning laws regarding high density apartments now.
City Officials are claiming there has been positive change at the Old Capitol Town Center bus stop that had become notorious for disturances.
Another story on the higher than expected cost for the Johnson County Justice Center.
Remember yesterday I mentioned a class action suit alleging racial discrimination against the Iowa State government? Well the Iowa Department of Transportation became the target for a second law suit for discrimination.
A nice article on United Action for Youth's School of the Arts, starting this week.
I'll be interested to learn more about how this happened.
The City of Literature locations has its own Google Map now.
A Templeton Rye documentary will be showing at the Bijou Theatre at the beginning of March.
Iowa City Daily Links Excerpt of the Day
As a result, they bought the land and paid for design work, and hoped to break ground soon. If the zoning rules change and force them to alter the scope of their project and devalue the property, they’ll seek compensation from the city for the difference, they said.
Their attorney, Michael Pugh, said much the same in a letter to the City Council Thursday.
Council member Terry Dickens said that while he’s open to discussing changes to the zoning code, he is opposed to a moratorium.
“When a person has already done all he was supposed to … to suddenly say you can’t do that, that’s wrong,” he said.
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