{"id":840,"date":"2025-10-15T05:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T05:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:01:06","slug":"the-reader-beat-city-council-notes-from-october-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/840\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reader Beat: City Council Notes from October 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eriereader.com\/image\/scale\/auto\/auto\/articles\/502438_680531_image-from-ios.jpg\" class=\"lightbox_img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/502438_680531_image-from-ios.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following our notes taken during the City Council meeting held on October 1 at 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>I attended the City Council meeting on Oct.1 at 9 a.m. During public comments, constituent Deonte Cooley emphasized the benefit of a community police review board. &#8220;When can we talk to our police and when can the police talk to us?,&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Why is it that you all can&#8217;t establish a board to make sure that we can have those conversations?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City Council held a public hearing at the request of the Planning Department and Planning Commission about a request for Waterfront Conditional Use submitted by Arctaris Impact Investors for the construction of multiple-family dwellings consisting of fourplex and townhouse buildings totaling 61 units located on vacant parcels in a Waterfront residential zoning district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another request covered during the hearing came from Buehler &amp; Associates on behalf of the Erie County Convention Center Authority for construction of a two-story addition to an existing parking ramp located at 30 Sassafras Pier in a Waterfront commercial zoning district. The meeting went on to discuss the following ordinances:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance amending and supplementing Article 1301, known as the City of Erie Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (SALDO), specifically amending Articles I, II, III, IV, and V, which re-defines Major and Minor Subdivisions and revises the review process for SALDO applications in Erie passed unanimously.\u00a0\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance amending Part I of Article 113.09(f)(1), whereby the monetary limit for the inter-fund transfers authorized by the Mayor without prior Council approval is increased, passed unanimously.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance to repeal Ordinance 51-2025 passed and approved by City Council on July 2, 2025, as it was a duplication of Ordinance 66-2025 passed and approved by City Council September 3, 2025, had its first reading.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating $100,000.00 from the Paving &amp; Sewer Revenue fund to be used for the 2025 streets improvement program had its first reading.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nAn ordinance appropriating $365,935.52 from FEMA FY2024 Assistance to Firefighters Grant for training firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards had its first reading. &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following our notes taken during the City Council meeting held on October 1 at 9:00 a.m. I attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[990,136,138,137,989],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-city-council","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-the-reader-beat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}