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“This is huge. Other councils kept kicking the can down the road and kicking it down the road and we’re finally here. … I’m grateful that we have the momentum to change an antiquated code that has vestiges of institutional racism, and we’re fixing it.”
– Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza, upon Wednesday’s first-reading vote on the new Land Development Code.
This article appears in December 13 • 2019.
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