Ann Arbor Council Postpones Couch Vote

At its Sept. 7 meeting, on the first day of fall classes at the University of Michigan, the Ann Arbor city council postponed a ban on a common feature of student rental housing neighborhoods: porch couches. The proposed change to the city’s ordinance was prompted by an early-morning rental house fire on State Street that killed a student in the spring of 2010. However, the council’s proposed modification to the city’s ordinance comes not in the chapter on fire safety, but rather in the nuisance chapter. The matter will now be voted on at council’s Sept. 20 meeting.

This brief was filed from the city council chambers. A more detailed report of the meeting will follow: [link]