MORGANTOWN – Less than a week after a quorum of the Morgantown Board of Zoning Appeals voted 2-1 to deny a conditional use for a recovery home in the former […]
Tag: Morgantown City Council
Potential charter hurdle cleared, Morgantown begins election move
MORGANTOWN – With a potential charter roadblock cleared by the West Virginia Legislature, Morgantown City Council is moving forward with the state-mandated realignment of its municipal election. Morgantown City Council […]
Trumble, Downs to lead council, body approves ‘hostile architecture’ ban
MORGANTOWN – As it does to begin the first meeting in July each year, Morgantown City Council selected its leadership on Tuesday. Danielle Trumble, representing the 5th Ward, will return […]
Morgantown to consider banning ‘hostile architecture’ on city property
MORGANTOWN – To bench, or not to bench. Seemingly minor in the grand scheme of things, that is a question – the placement of benches in and around downtown Morgantown […]
Camping ban has resulted in 35 warnings, nine citations in just over a year
MORGANTOWN – In just over one year since implementation of Morgantown’s hotly debated Article 1157, more commonly known as the camping ban, the controversial law has resulted in 35 warnings, […]
Morgantown Council halts conversion therapy amendment amid backlash
MORGANTOWN – The second reading of an amendment to Article 153 of city code pertaining to the ban of conversion therapy involving minors was not on Morgantown City Council’s agenda […]
CSO plan contemplates $150 million price tag, sewer rate increases
MORGANTOWN – What’s it going to take for the Morgantown Utility Board to bring its combined sewer discharges into area waterways under the threshold set by federal and state regulatory […]
AG’s office: City ‘conversion therapy’ law is unconstitutional
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey has informed the city of Morgantown that its law prohibiting medical and mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with a […]
Money talks: City welcomes public to weigh in on fiscal sustainability
MORGANTOWN – The feedback was not unexpected. In March, Morgantown City Council broached the topic of a potential increase to its $3 Safe Streets & Safe Community Fee – commonly […]
Councilors: Red tape is stifling progress, costing the city money
MORGANTOWN – Inconsistent and overly burdensome. Members of Morgantown City Council said people looking to develop or undertake improvement projects within the city are too often met with an administrative […]
