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What can cities regulate?
Submitted by Rick on Wed, 03/15/2006 - 7:00am.

Not much, it turns out. From The Olympian:

They can require buildings to be demolished if they go vacant for a certain period of time to guard against blight, said Pete Swensson, a planner working on the study. And officials can limit the square footage on the ground floor of a proposed building.

But the social and moral responsibilities of companies is a legal tightrope. The city does not have the authority to regulate these matters, Sterbank said. Some issues such as wages already are controlled by federal law, and Olympia lacks the power to supersede.

Thus, cities cannot require that companies be good citizens in the community. But if cities can't care, who will?

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This is the problem with too

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sat, 03/18/2006 - 6:37pm.
This is the problem with too much power invested in a federal government.

There's little room for the local branches to act in a way that would best fit their citizen base while still abiding by both the US Constitution and their respective state constitution.

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