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Show Cedar City Council . Peddler resolution passes students littering on the school grounds and the area becoming a traffic hazard because of the parking of the catering truck and the crowd of students around it. However, Fred Laurito said that he was being made a scapegoat and that parents, teachers and administrators were simply trying, to blame him for things that have gone wrong. Jim Scarth, attorney lor the Lauritos, also noted that there could be several legal problems with the action, and both he and Laurito hinted that they would fight the amendment. Scarth specifically disagreed with the City labeling the buisness as a peddler, when, he said it was, in fact, a licensed business. He also noted that the amendmnet could be unconstitutional, especially violating the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Con-stitution. In additon, he labled the action as "inverse condemnation," hurting a business operation by ' taking legal action against it. "I believe this City is subject to liability," he said. In related action, the Council also voted to recommend that parking alontf Center Street from 300 West to 500 West, in front of the Middle School, be limited to loading and unloading only. The action was taken because of what many consider a traffic hazard, caused by many people parking in the area and others trying to load and unload students. The Council will recommend the change to the Utah State Department of Transportation, which has the final say on the State road. In other business the Council approved ap-proved a land trade with Cedar Lumber and Hardware Company, relating to redevelopment efforts. The Council agreed, pending the findings of an independent out-of-town appraiser, to finalize the trade of land behind Main Street stores between Harding and Hoover avenues owned by Cedar Lumber for land on the south interchange of Interstate 15, currently owned by the City. The land near Main Street will become part of the City's parking district. CEDAR CITY Peddlers, including Cedar Mobile Catering, will no longer be allowed to operate within one block of Cedar City schools from 15 minutes before school begins to the time when school ends. The Cedar City Council at its regular meeting last week unanimously passed the amendment to its resolutions, doing such after a long, and sometimes heated, discussion. Many people were in attendance at the meeting, expressing ex-pressing views both pro and con. The Iron County Parent Teacher Council and Cedar City Middle School Principal Dee El Stapley had requested the change in the ordinance in hopes of alleviating what they considered were problems concerning peddlers, particularly par-ticularly Cedar Mobile Catering, selling near the school. Paulette Biedermann, president of the PTA Council, pointed out that the service, owned by Fred and Bertha Laurito, was not the only cause of the problem; but most of the complaints and the accusations were leveled against the Lauritos. Stapley and the PTA outlined several problems that they hoped could be eliminated by the change in the ordinance. or-dinance. These included students being late for class, students spending their lunch money on "junk food," students being hard to dispcipline because of their eating candy just before school, |