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Standard-Examiner

Short-term quarters

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

By John Wright Standard-Examiner staff

Ogden to disallow long-term stays at hotels, motels

OGDEN -- For Larry Crossley, the Millstream Motel on Washington Boulevard is a good fit.

Left disabled by a car accident 13 years ago, Crossley can't walk far, but it's a short cab ride to any number of retail establtshments on 12th Street.

Living at the Millstream, which he has done for the last 18 months, also allows Crossley to limit his banking to two transactions a month. He receives a check for about $1,200 in Social Security disability insurance and writes one for about $700 that covers his rent, gas, electricity and cable;

"I make one payment, and I don't have to worry about it,° Crossley said. "This (living here) is just a matter of convenience, really."

Crossley and scores of others who live in a handful of motels on Washington Boulevard soon may be inconvenienced, however, by an ordinance the City Council approved last month.

The ordinance prohibits hotels and motels from keeping any guest for more than three months in a one-year period, if the guest has no other permanent residence.

City officials say the ordinance is necessary because the motels are generating a high number of police calls; because they weren't designed for long-term

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