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MIDTOWN
Rules ban
homeless
shelters,
pawn shops
Kemp holds slim lead,
awaits metro count
BY MEGAN REED
mreed@gainesvilletimes.com
The Gainesville City Council
approved new regulations for
the city’s Midtown Overlay Zone
Tuesday, banning some uses while
allowing for single-family homes
and condominiums in the area.
Prohibited uses under the new
ordinance include homeless shel
ters, crisis centers, coin-laundry
facilities, kennels, liquor stores,
pawn shops and jails.
Gas stations on lots smaller than
2 acres are also banned. Industrial
uses that emit smoke, odor or noise,
as well as industrial uses with out
door storage, are prohibited.
Existing uses prohibited under
the new rule are allowed to stay.
The city’s Midtown Overlay Zone
is bordered by E.E. Butler Park
way, Jesse Jewell Parkway, Queen
City Parkway and the railroad. The
overlay zone also includes about 200
feet outside those boundaries. The
area is about 350 acres and is south
of Gainesville’s business district.
Planning Manager Matt Tate
said the overlay zone was estab
lished in 2001 as part of the city’s
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Republican Brian Kemp led Democrat Stacey Abrams 51 -48 percent with 94 percent of precincts reporting as of press time.
Fieldale
final
nears
price-fixing
settlement
BY NICK WATSON
nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com
The plaintiffs in a federal anti
trust class-action lawsuit against
multiple poultry corporations
sought the final approval of a $2.25
settlement with Fieldale Farms,
according to Oct. 29 court filings.
The Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs
filed a lawsuit in September 2016
against corporations such as Tyson
Foods, Koch Foods, Pilgrim’s
Pride, Perdue, Sanderson Farms,
Mar-Jac and others.
Their claim was that the defen
dants allegedly “combined and
conspired to fix, raise, elevate,
maintain, or stabilize prices of
broilers sold in the U.S.”
Broilers are chickens raised for
meat and are slaughtered before
they are 13 weeks old.
The allegation was that the
defendants did this through “coor
dinated supply restrictions, shar
ing competitively sensitive price
and production information, and
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Voters cast ballots amid dispute over election systems, polling malfunctions
Associated Press
ATLANTA - With vote
counts going on in metro coun
ties until the wee hours, Repub
lican candidate Brian Kemp
held a slim margin over Demo
crat Stacey Abrams.
With 94 percent of precincts
reporting, returns showed
Kemp running up large mar
gins across rural and small
town Georgia, but parts of
metro Atlanta, where Abrams’
strength is concentrated, had
yet to report.
Voters cast ballots Tuesday
amid an ongoing dispute about
Kemp’s management of Geor
gia’s elections system, leaving
open the possibility that sup
porters on the losing side may
not accept the outcome. Poten
tial outcomes ranged from the
election of America’s first black
female governor to another
four weeks of bitter campaign
ing if the race goes to a runoff.
Adding to the Election Day
drama, widespread reports of
technical malfunctions and long
lines at polling stations came in
from across the state, with some
voters reporting waits of up to
three hours to cast ballots.
Some of those Atlanta-area
counties had extended voting
hours for some precincts to
accommodate the crowds and
compensate for problems.
A state judge ordered three
precincts in suburban Gwin
nett County — a populous swing
county — to extend their poll
ing hours, one of them as late as
9:25 p.m. An order issued in Ful
ton County Superior Court says
three polling places must stay
open late — two until 10 p.m.
The elections chief wasn’t
immune to the difficulties:
When Kemp went to cast his
ballot, he had an issue with
his voter card, but it was fixed
quickly. He walked by reporters
and said: “Take Two.”
In Cobb County, just out
side Atlanta, Nicole Whatley
planned to vote for Abrams,
partly because “of this whole
social divisiveness that’s been
going on,” she said, as she stood
in line to vote outside a library
in a cold rain Tuesday morning.
Whatley, 33, said she didn’t
appreciate how Kemp has
adopted Trump’s rhetoric on
immigration.
“Kemp tried to play that
Trump card to get where
he’s at,” she said, adding that
Abrams, by contrast, high
lighted unity. “Her campaign
spoke about partisanship and
bringing people back together,”
Whatley said.
Her husband Lance Whatley,
a 29-year-old software engi
neer, was leaning toward vot
ing for Kemp as he waited. “It
might be a game-time decision
for me when I get in the voting
booth,” he said.
Abrams, a 44-year-old Atlanta
attorney, former lawmaker and
moonlighting romance novelist
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