$25 fine for trash that's not in a container
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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Suggest start with slums.
If our code department is going to do this, cite the high weeds also. Walking down the 400block of Locust St., I noticed a bunch. Also, cite the people that start placing trash out on the weekends, when their haulers pick up Tuesday. If they are going to do the job, do it right.
But I've also have had numerous acts of retaliation by the quilty offenders.
I refuse to give up though, unless there is no new tax reform in the boro.
The borough provided the recycle cans, so if they want to make this new regulation and plan to vigorously enforce it they need to help provide trash cans to families that express a need.
I was explaining this new regulation to my grandson and he said, "There's more laws in this town than a prison, I'm glad I don't live here."
What happens when you already have two trash cans and maybe you have a couple extra bags of trash that that won't fit? Do you have to go buy a third can?