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Lynchburg city’s proposed zoning ordinance search warrants have drawn a lot of attention. It will be voted on at 730pm at City Hall, 900 Church St. Public comment will be welcomed and limited to 3 minutes per person. They were first brought to the public by Alicia Petska of the News and Advance here: http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2011/may/11/planning-commission-oks-warrant-search-ordinance-ar-1033292/ [...]

Lynchburg City Council will be voting on a controversial “zoning warrants” proposal by the Lynchburg Planning Commission. The proposal would give zoning officials the ability to get warrants to enter homes for non-criminal searches in an effort to find suspected zoning violations. While there, if they saw something they suspected (as persons not trained in [...]