TEMPE, AZ — The Tempe City Council has passed an ordinance that would require events with 30 or more people to have a permit and pay a $25 fee.
“It gives the city manager a lot of power,” said Austin Davis, founder of the nonprofit AZ Hugs, which serves people who are homeless. “You know, when we talk about checks and balances in every sense of government, this is an attack on those checks and balances.”
Davis was one of dozens of people who spoke at the council meeting on Tuesday in opposition to the ordinance, which lasted hours and went into early Wednesday morning…