Occupancy Limit Ordinances
State College, PA

1994

• Housing feud may go to court
• Student apathy as rampant as drunks on College Ave
• King plans housing counterproposal
• Student segregation
• King rebukes housing plan
• Borough sends 2 proposals for study
• Council submits housing proposals
• Housing feud may go to court
• Commission examines local student housing proposals
• IFC joins USG to contest borough occupancy limit
• Landlords join forces in housing debate
• Occupancy limit bars spacious homes from living up to potential
• Student-status clause may not have helped housing situation
• Borough's occupancy limit is modern-day segregation
• Discriminatory housing
• Students, borough leaders seek housing solution
• Housing plans deadlocked
• Student leaders voice own opinions on housing issue
• OTIS can't be afraid to fulfill its responsibilities
• Commission votes to throw out both housing proposals
• Commission looks at 'PENU' housing plan
• King designs new housing proposal
• Planning Commission pursues PENU idea
• Council detours student housing
• Council, commission split on housing action
• University professor helps mold borough

1995

• Task force works to eliminate zoning violations
• The numbers game
• New name for housing ordinance
  Renewing discriminatory housing puts new name on old plan
• Housing limit catches landlord off guard
• Housing debate takes new twist
• Two-person housing limit hits opposition
• New housing plan limits options
• Town/gown relations
• RENU presented to council amid concern, debate
• Council dicusses the 's' in housing
• USG may have found key to housing occupancy limit
• Opinions page is the place to make some noise about issues
• Lack of voice from student leaders makes individual voices important
• One answer to housing problem
• Townies begone! One plan for the reversal of RENU
• USG looks to supreme power to find resolution in debate
• Student-housing issue creates discord among residents and students
• USG, council work on housing debate
• Council works on RENU
• RENU remains debated
• Town vs. Gown
• Opinions page is the place to make some noise about issues
• Housing questions haunt community
• Ex-borough council member to fill seat
• Students can show power by registering, voting in town
• Council candidates discuss housing issue
• Housing plan agreed upon
• Latest housing proposal still a step toward student ghettos
• Zoning ordinance debate continues

1996

• Doing the best they can
• Commission continues housing talks
• Borough Council rejects controversial 'ratio' portion of RENU
• Planning commission's hard work ends up rejected
• Borough endures search for housing plan
• Random borough ordinance calls for RENUed student activism
• Borough Council rejects controversial 'ratio' portion of RENU
• Questions remain after latest plan rejected

1997

• Same-sex couples shunned by home zoning ordinance
• Students need to turn housing nightmare into tale of triumph
• Council's plans could limit student options
• Proposed ordinances upset USG, local ACLU
• Council discusses ordinances
• Students pack borough council meeting
• Commission builds on rental housing ordinance
• USG proposes another housing plan for State College borough
• Entenberg seeks Spanier's support
• USG candidates propose platforms to battle borough
• Spanier tells student side
• Borough housing code probably legal
• ACLU begins housing battle
• Housing issue expands into community
• Council to discuss housing tonight
• Family favors housing ordinance, questions University role in issue
• Student residents draw professor to area
• Student, resident disagrees with current housing plans
• Proposed rezoning may limit student housing options
• Realtor sees student side of housing
• Council passes housing ordinance
• Housing ordinance has minor effects

1998

• Crowd attends zoning hearing
• Feud in the Highlands: Taxes, History, and Preserving What's Left
• Groups still disagree about housing ordinance
• Housing restrictions may limit student choices

1999

• Students should apply to rental housing boards
• Advice from disgruntled tenant: Be aware of your rights

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