Zoning violations posted at Venues
Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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The problem is you brought the same fake gangster garbage from York and Lancaster (especially York) that destroyed places like NV, Banana max, and cobblestones into columbia, and expected them to act differently.
I said the day I saw the first ad for events that this was going to happen, after seeing the post making the rounds with the same ol' people who always happen to be around when things like this go down.
Not a race. Not a gender. A specific type of deplorable human being. A type of person you specifically targeted for attendance. How dare you pull the race card because your target demo couldn't go a month without shooting each other on god damn main street. Half a block from my front door while my family slept.
Quit hiding behind race, actually accept responsibility for bringing this here, stop making excuses, and either fix it or shut down. Because its bad enough this town is full of addicts and lifetime system sponges, we don't need York and Lancaster's problems too.
I moved here to get away from lost cause cities like York, and I will do everything I can to support keeping you from brining an incident like that to this town again.
Patrons shot each other half a block from my front door (i live a block away)within a month of opening. Within a month.
Same fake gangster crowd that drove places like cobblestones in York into the ground by pretending to be ballers, spending too much, drinking too much, starting a fight, then turning the street into the OK corral.
From @David Litrenta