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SALEM When is a driveway no longer a driveway and why can’t a resident still park there if there’s no longer a garage and no street parking available?
Those are some of the questions the Rules and Ordinances Committee grappled with Wednesday night in a discussion about residential parking.
No decisions were made, but the committee plans to reconvene on the issue at 6 p.m. April 14 after researching how many neighborhoods in the city may be affected by any action.
Councilwoman Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey, who chairs the committee, said the issue came up after someone complained about a building project on Southeast Boulevard. When the zoning officer checked the residence, he found that the homeowner was enclosing the garage to create additional living space in the house and never got a permit.
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SALEM Residents in the city’s gas aggregation program paid more than expected for both February and March after supplier Volunteer Energy increased the locked-in rate without warning.
“It was a shock to all of us at city hall,” Mayor John Berlin said.
Under the new two-year contract with Volunteer Energy, the city had agreed to a locked-in rate of 41 cents per one hundred cubic feet (Ccf) for the natural gas aggregation program, which allows the city to gain buying power by banding everyone together to buy gas from a certified supplier, such as Volunteer Energy.
The new price was to go into effect with the February billing cycle, so when Berlin received his gas bill, he was surprised to see the rate was 49 cents per Ccf. In March, it shot up even higher, to 57 cents per Ccf. He asked city Service/Safety Director Joe Cappuzzello to check with the supplier and with AMPO Inc., who represented the city’s interests in the program.