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Building inspectors said design for expansion must include tornado shelter under International Building Code
City of Erie Building Code Board of Appeals refused to grant variance that would have eliminated shelter requirement; Prep-Villa takes case to court
The multimillion-dollar expansion of the campus of Cathedral Preparatory School has landed in court in a fight over tornadoes and the risk of them touching down in the city of Erie.
Erie Catholic Preparatory School, the entity that makes up the all-boys Prep and the all-girls Villa Maria Academy, is suing in Erie County Court to get an exception to a building code requirement. It mandates that Prep-Villa include a tornado shelter as part of the three-story addition to Prep s main building as it faces West 10th Street in downtown Erie.
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Downtown North East sees boom as new businesses open, old ones expand
NORTH EAST Michael Yori was still a teenager when he and his then-girlfriend, Lynn Yori, opened Michael s Pizzeria on South Lake Street in November 1987.
Yori, now 52, has seen a lot of businesses come and go from downtown North East over the past three and a half decades. He s got one word for what he s seeing now, though: A boom. I don t think we ve seen this in 20, 25 years, where it seems like all of a sudden everybody wants to do something nice and make North East the place you want to show up to and be here, said Yori, who also owns Yori Wine Cellars. The more businesses that come, the more people it attracts and that benefits all of us.
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