Hockey rinks, food carts, and absentee landlords

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Some good stuff on the docket for tomorrow’s City Council meeting:

• Councilors Petty, Haller, Germain and Smith are suggesting a method du jour for dealing with vacant properties: They’re asking that the city look at fining owners of vacant structures 10% of the building’s value if the structure stays empty a year after a “warning” from the city.
• Mayor Lukes is asking the City Solicitor for “a legal opinion listing all the traffic, parking and zoning ordinances applicable to canteen style motor vehicles which serve food to the public and request recommendations regarding the type of ordinances and special permits required to regulate the activities of such canteens.” Sounds like another attempt for that Main South mainstay and constant neighborhood target, El Delicioso.
• Councilors Germain, Petty and Rushton want the city to consider converting all ice skating rinks into regulation hockey rinks. In unrelated news, Bob Moylan is concerned about the cost of maintaining parks.

There’s plenty more choco-goodness, including a resolution to have the state Secretary of Transportation hold a meeting at Union Station for commuters to attend. While Lukes is proposing the meeting be after 5:00pm for the benefit of those commuters, we think that’s too early, considering the first train that leaves Boston after 5:00pm doesn’t get in until 7:13. Our suggestion: Just schedule it for “whenever the post-work train gets into town, whether it’s at 7:13 or 7:45.” Trust us, when dealing with the trains, more people will understand that than any definite time.

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Tags: city council, MBTA, hockey rinks, food carts, absentee landlords