Merced City Council hits pause on street closure permits, to help rewrite broken rules

Merced City Council hits pause on street closure permits, to help rewrite broken rules

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Merced City Council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance Monday that halts the city’s use of street-closure permits for 45 days. The move will allow city officials time to rewrite an ordinance that officials said has not been enforced for more than a decade, until recently. The ordinance mandated a 60-day gap between overlapping events that require street closures within 800 feet of a recent closure. City Attor…