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Good morning, Memphis, where there was big news in the local culinary community with the upcoming move of Restaurant Iris and the purchase of Leonards Pit Barbecue.
City Councilman Martavius Jones raised the potential Tuesday to increase the rate to $3 per $100 of assessed value from $2.71. For a house valued at $200,000, that would represent an additional $580 annually. The overall level of basic city services is lower than the expectation of many Memphians, Jones said in comments that mimicked Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland s former slogan. We can t be brilliant at the basics if the budget doesn t provide the basics.
Among other things, the new revenue would pay for a pay increase for city employees and MATA.
A project providing hundreds of residential housing units for young families has been approved by the San Mateo Planning Commission.
The Peninsula Heights project on Campus Drive will have 290 residential units, with a mix of three- to four-story single-family residences, townhomes and flats, according to a San Mateo Planning Commission report. Peninsula Heights would have 624 on-site parking spaces with attached garages and visitor parking. The current site is 15.45 acres, with a northern site at 2988 Campus Drive and a southern site at 2755 Campus Drive. The northern site would have 134 units, with 310,000 square feet of floor space. The southern site would have 156 units, with 368,000 square feet of floor space.