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		<title>Sewer backups, stormwater regs put city in a bind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large crowd showed up to the Boone County Commission chambers Wednesday night to discuss a dirty topic: sewer overflows and their connection with recent stormwater regulations mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency. A three-person panel of Bill Weitkemper, Columbia sewer superintendent; Karen Miller, Boone County southern district commissioner; and Ken Midkiff, conservation chair of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council clears way for huge downtown apartment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City Council’s Monday-night-approval of zoning enabling a 100-unit, four-story apartment building could well boost downtown’s population by nearly 300 people next year. The City Council unanimously gave the go ahead to rezone 2.5 acres from residential to open commercial at the corner of College Avenue and Walnut Street. The Odle family, owners of Trittenbach Development, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council cracks down on rental units</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300918/2011/01/19/council-cracks-down-on-rental-units/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city beefed up its oversight of rental units Tuesday night, though one council member expressed concern that the new regulations would be too onerous on landlords. The council voted 5-2 to amend the city code to keep a rental permit from being transferred to a new owner when a property is sold. New owners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City sticks with building code commission&#8217;s regs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council Tuesday night decided against hiring an outside consultant to review revised building codes recently finished by the 20-member Building Construction Codes Commission, foregoing a process that could have substantially changed the commission’s recommendations. Every three years, the city updates its own construction regulations as the International Code Council revises national codes. Columbia’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z takes issue with rezoning for downtown apartment building</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300909/2011/01/07/pz-takes-issue-with-rezoning-for-downtown-apartment-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a proposal to rezone land at the corner of College Avenue and Walnut Street so a development company could build a four-story, 100-unit apartment building on the downtown site. After opponents cited concerns with traffic congestion, lack of parking and lax zoning restrictions, the commission Thursday night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Mo. misses millions in federal money</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last night dropped the effort to pass the $1.2 trillion appropriations bill funding the federal government through Sept. 30 after some Republican senators who said they would support it changed their minds. In the process, Missouri lost out on more than $100 million worth of earmarks that had been attached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council briefed on IBM storm water variance</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300878/2010/12/07/council-briefed-on-ibm-storm-water-variance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the City Council&#8217;s work session last night, the city staff added an additional report to the end of the agenda. The report was a &#8220;response to the Nov. 26, 2010 Columbia Business Times article regarding the IBM site along Lemone Industrial Boulevard.&#8221; If you didn&#8217;t read it, the article pointed out that the IBM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richland annexation prompted valuable dialogue throughout process</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300871/2010/12/06/richland-annexation-prompted-valuable-dialogue-throughout-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Black has been showing up at city hall periodically for about two years. As the president of the Lake of the Woods Neighborhood Association when developer David Atkins put forward his proposal to annex 270 acres into the city along Richland Road, he&#8217;s been the face of the resistance through the long, strange process. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State tax credit trims not enough to stop higher ed cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations from the Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission could save the state $220 million annually, but they are still not enough to stave off big cuts to higher education funding, said commission member Craig Van Matre. Missouri has 61 tax credit programs, and since 1998, total tax credit redemptions have grown by an average of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City finance director gives final budget briefing</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300850/2010/11/29/city-finance-director-gives-final-budget-briefing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a farewell address of sorts, Columbia Finance Director Lori Fleming gave the City Council one last overview of the budget Monday night before she heads south of the border to take a job with the U.S. Treasury Department in Honduras. Fleming, whose last day is Friday, has been Columbia&#8217;s finance director since 1995. In [...]]]></description>
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