Committee tries for sixth time to ban shale gas development in the city

YOUNGSTOWN

The third time wasn’t the charm. Neither was the fourth or fifth.

So members of the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Committee are pinning their hopes that on the sixth try, residents vote to ban shale gas development within the city limits.

Committee members announced Friday that they have collected the required number of signatures to place the proposed charter amendment on the November 2016 ballot.

The group plans a news conference at 1:30 p.m. Monday in front of city hall before delivering petitions to the clerk of city council.