Council OKs Storage of Cremation Urns
The City Council has relaxed a law than banned all resting places for the dead.
Council members voted 5-0 Monday to change city law to allow churches and other places of worship to have columbaria--vaults with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead. Council members Joyce Streator and William Paparian were absent.
The change came after a year of careful lobbying by All Saints Episcopal Church.
All Saints plans a columbarium with 300 niches at its church.
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