Alexandria panel to get preview of city legislative package

By JIM BUTLER

The Alexandria City Council Legal Committee will hear Tuesday afternoon from the Roy administration its goals with state legislation this year.

Notice of intent to file bills in the session beginning in March has been published, essentially by title only as is customary. 

One is relative to public safety operation and protection zones surrounding designated community events in the city. 

Such events in communities across the country are more and more often becoming venues for violence. 

Another measure, according to posted legal notice, is relative to administrative adjudication of certain code and ordinance violations. 

It would provide definitions for certain violations and provide relative to types of violations subject to administrative adjudication procedures and related matters. 

The current city fiscal year budget incorporates an Administrative Hearing Bureau to hear cases alleging code violations relative to abandoned or blighted property, public health, housing, fire prevention and the environment. 

The committee, Malcolm Larvadain chair, Lizzie Felter and Chuck Fowler, meets at 4 p.m.  A full Council meeting begins at 5.