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[email protected] Sumter City Council ap- proved an ordinance to allow multi-family apartments on the south side of Patriot Park- way near Deschamps Road at Tuesday’s regular meeting. Some residents of the area led a coordinated campaign against the proposal, and members of the public who at- tended the meeting were asked by opponents to hold up signs during council’s vote urging council to vote against the or- dinance. Martin Graf, an Air Force retiree, was one of the people passing out signs. Graf said he and other area residents were promised the area would remain agricultur- al and single dwellings when he purchased a house there. Members of council pointed SAMMY WAY / THE SUMTER ITEM out they could find no record Flames engulf a home at 104 Church St. on Tuesday morning. of any such promises and that the city would not have been involved in any agreement Tuesday morning fire guts Victorian-era Church Street home when that area was still in Sumter County. Councilman David Mer- BY ADRIENNE SARVIS inside the structure to put chant said he reached out to
[email protected] out more flames. former councilmen and was He said one resident was told no such promises were After thinking everything inside the house when the made.