The public will have an opportunity to weigh in on a proposed city ordinance that would allow neighborhoods with one entrance and cemeteries to have a public-access gate.
City Council members set a public hearing at 6 p.m. July 19.
Ward 1 Councilman Quentin Whitwell scaled his citywide gated-community proposal earlier this month to specifically address a single neighborhood, Avery Gardens on County Line Road.
Current city policy requires that 100 percent of a neighborhood's residents agree to build a gate and that residents of the enclosed neighborhood take over street and infrastructure repair on everything behind the gates. Whitwell's earlier proposal an ordinance would have released the 100-percent-approval requirement for the gate construction in addition to freeing gate seekers from the financial responsibility of maintaining infrastructure behind the gate.
Whitwell encouraged the media and citizens to attend the public hearing.
"I want everyone at the table," he said.
Also see: Whitwell Alters Gated Proposal
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