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The Sedalia Rental Inspection Committee continued to nail down details of the inspector training program during Wednesday night’s meeting. The committee has spent the last several meetings deciding the details of the city offering a certification program. The idea is to have a city- sponsored class offered to citizens wanting to become a rental inspector . Those who complete the course would be included on an approved list given to landlords. Landlords would choose their own inspector from the list to complete the proposed rental inspections . Daniel Shaw, of the Sedalia Fire Department , has been leading the discussions on the inspector certification program , as he will most likely be conducting the course. Wednesday’s meeting began with the committee adding two more items to the checklist, for a total of 24, at the suggestion of member JoAnn Martin . No. 23 will be no large holes in walls, floors or ceilings ...

ORANGE — As Chapman University helps students move in this week, it will be housing 37 percent of its undergraduates on campus, while many more will spread out into rented rooms and houses in nearby Old Towne Orange neighborhoods . Within four years, the university expects to have 48 percent of its students living in dorms, one project away from meeting Chapman President Daniele Struppa ’s commitment to the community to get half of its students into campus-controlled housing and out of neighborhoods. For years, college life and neighborhood serenity haven ’t always mixed. The volume of residents’ complaints growing until Chapman paused expansion plans in 2015 to first address the friction. Struppa took over the reins at Chapman last year as neighbors’ frustration with parties, noise, parking and bad behavior peaked . He assured residents that getting more students into campus-run housing would be one of his first priorities. Chapman University bought property adjacent to its Pather...

Victoria’s least- dense neighbourhood would become a little more crowded under a draft plan. Townhouses and small apartments along Fairfield Road, row houses throughout the community and secondary suites in duplexes and small-lot houses are all part of the mix in the draft Gonzales neighbourhood plan . Coun. Chris Coleman, council liaison to the neighbourhood, said the plan also includes recommendations regarding alternative transportation, parks, ecological preservation, small commercial centres and heritage areas. Coleman said the proposals for extra density might be contentious for some, and council will undoubtedly hear from those folks when it holds a public meeting on the proposals this fall. “But I think the expectation in the [ Official Community Plan ] is that we would see increased density in all neighbourhoods,” he said. City staff note that with about five per cent of the city’s population — 4,175 resident...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP , MI – Grand Blanc Township officials are still keeping data on the damage that was caused by the severe flooding last month. Flint Journal File Photo Jeff And Cassandra Lawrence of Grand Blanc, Michigan inspect their SUV after it floated out of its parking spot into another vehicle in Knollwood Apartments in Grand Blanc Township May 4. At Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole, township officials gave a glimpse into the total damage that was done on May 3 and 4. Genesee County received more rain overnight on May 3 than the area usually receives in the entire month of May, said Genesee County Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright shortly after the storm. “I never saw the flooding that I saw that morning,” said Fire Chief Jim Harmes , adding that he got his first call at 3 a.m. May 3. “I don’t think I’ve seen so much water travel in this community in my career.” The flood hit many Genesee County communities hard . In Grand Blanc Township Knollwood Apartments , located off...

As Towson University students prepare to head back to campus this week, university officials say complaints of loud, unruly gatherings near the campus are down by as much as 50 percent in some neighborhoods since the Baltimore County Council passed an ordinance to deter problem behavior . After numerous neighborhood complaints of public urination, property damage and excessive noise in residential neighborhoods, the council passed the Social Host–Unruly Social Gatherings ordinance in January 2016 to target problem landlords and renters through their pocketbooks. The two-year pilot, which was introduced by County Councilman David Marks , will expire in January. With a full school year having passed since the enactment of the ordinance, neighbors, Towson University officials and county police officials say it is working to curb problem behavior . Marks said he will seek reauthorization of the legislation. "I think it's having the effect we wanted and it's had, mor...