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Iowa City takes final actions on ordinances aimed at student apartments
Gregg Hennigan
May. 16, 2012 4:00 pm
The City Council Tuesday night adopted the final two pieces of a set of three ordinances aimed at limiting the number of new large apartments near downtown and the University of Iowa campus.
The council voted 6-0, with Terry Dickens absent, to pass an ordinance preventing the construction of multifamily dwellings with more than three bedrooms per unit.
The other ordinance requires more parking spaces for larger apartments in a defined zone that's generally near the UI campus. That vote was 5-1, with Jim Throgmorton dissenting.
The council
voted earlier this month to prohibit more than three unrelated people from living together.
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