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Lafayette settles rent question, for now

A proposal to allow tenants of large apartment buildings to appeal rent increases greater than 10 percent fell one vote short.

The decision rested with Mayor Mike Anderson and council members Don Tatzin and Cameron Burks because colleagues Mark Mitchell, who owns a rental house in Lafayette, and Ivor Samson, who is indirectly tied to a firm that owns rental property in the city, had recused themselves.

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