June 26, 1967 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Special Session 869, Minutes June 26, 1967 Page 13 Council is being misdirected because their concern should be for the people and not the real estate professionals. He said these are the comments that he wanted to make~ however, he feels this bill does provide some measure of standards - some measure for people in this business of real estate, sale, rental and lease, to live up to and for that reason he thinks he would like very much to vote for this bill if he can't get anything else. Councilman Woods said she would also like to comment. As the Council is aware, she also supported - in fact, co-sponsored a licensing form of legim- lation - and was sorry it was defeated because it was in a form that she believes would have been workable for both agent and administration. How- ever, she said she would like to point out, because she is going to support Bill No. 6403 As Amended, that for the neighborhood association people who did come here~ the provisions of the present bill are very similar in speci- fying or being directed against the kinds of abuses that the neighborhood people came here and complained about. In other words, the kind of things they said were occurring in the neighborhoods are, hopefully, covered by the specific words in Bill No. $403 As Amended. She said the difference, of course, is that the penalty, instead of being removal of a license which would have been set up by law is procedure through the courts and a fine or jail sentence, a misdemeanor penalty. She said it is also her understanding by ruling of the City Counselor that it would he possible under this bill for complainants either to directly complain through the Police and Prosecut- ing Attorney or to go to the iluman Relations Commission, depending on whether they wanted more discussion with the real estate firm or whether they wanted immediate hearing in a court on a specific offense so that for those who did want direct action she feels this bill will provide this - for those . . ~orum . who wan=eu a RRk~ - many associations had indicated they needed a place where they could confront the real estate firms and bring them in and make them understand what the associations feel about what they are doigg - she thinks this bill will also provide this - provide a more informal ~mfor this kind of thing. Tnerefore, although she agrees with Councilman Lieber- man that perhaps some other form of legislation might have been preferred, she feels this will be an effective form of legislation - that the Council ought to get something passed now and get it in operation instead of con- tinuing on, and therefore she is going to support Bill No. 6403 As Amended. Councilman Bamburg said he would prefer Bill No. 6404, but having discussed the matter with individual Councilmen there seems to be a preference for Bill No. 6403 As Amended and he is going to vote for it. Councilman Katzen said it would appear to him "if noses were counted~ each member of the Council would have his o%.rn favorite bill, resulting in passage of seven different ordinances. He said he is of the same persuasion as Councilman Lieberman and he feels that the bill as proposed, and which will probably pass this evening, is a watered down version of the Detroit ordin- ance and while he doesn't say that anything that succeeds in Detroit neces- sarily would have any chance of being practical in this area because he doesn't think the Council can equate any two territorial, geographical areas regardless of the apparent similarity of their problems, he would merely like to announce that this is definitely a step backwards as far as the original posture and as far as solving this problem. Continuing, Councilman Katzen said however, being practical, he can only "count noses~ and see that the only legislation which the Council can ex- peditiously pass without another three to six months of lecturing and possibly backfighting and long and painful self-examination and advertising