Protests will need permits in Peace and Justice Plaza
After an hour and a half of heated discussion, Chapel Hill Town Council voted Monday to enact an interim ordinance on the use of Peace and Justice Plaza.
The changes come after Town Manager Roger Stancil released a memo in
January saying that rules overlooked during the Occupy Chapel
Hill/Carrboro encampment should be revisited for future enforcement.
With the new ordinance, residents must have permits to hold events in the plaza that last more than three hours. Those permits must be applied for 48 hours in advance of the event — a point of contempt among council members because it would disallow spontaneous protests.
In the past, occupiers and others spent entire nights in the space,
but now protesters can stay in the plaza only from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Council members were clear that those times are preliminary and could change.
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