Moratorium up on large-scale student housing in WL? Delayed debate returns near Purdue
Moratorium up on large-scale student housing in WL? Delayed debate returns near Purdue
Plus, new Lafayette parking restrictions you’ll need to know, including when you get that next ticket. And new noise ordinance hours coming in West Lafayette.
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From the Debates Delayed file, here’s one to watch this week …
There was so much to talk about after the West Lafayette City Council meeting in May – debates over tax abatements for Rolls-Royce’s $204 million facilities near Purdue (which will be back for a second round this week); the city contributions to stipends for remote workers relocating here for the Work From Purdue program; an unsuccessful bid to stop the police department from using facial recognition software – that the headline the next day boiled down to: Where to start …
Just as big might have been what didn’t happen that night.
Heading into what was billed as the first test of the city’s willingness to return to large, student-oriented housing projects – each with some sort of retail component – representatives for two developers went to the podium that night and asked to wait a month.
The reason:
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