Sentences with phrase «power planning council»

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In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

Willard Augustus Pleuthner, More Power for Your Church: Proven Plans and Projects (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1950); and see Murray Leiffer, The Effective City Church (New York: Abingdon Press, 1955), which preceded plans of the National Council of Churches to study «the effective city church.&rPlans and Projects (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1950); and see Murray Leiffer, The Effective City Church (New York: Abingdon Press, 1955), which preceded plans of the National Council of Churches to study «the effective city church.&rplans of the National Council of Churches to study «the effective city church.»

(a) the Murray ‑ Darling Basin Ministerial Council has agreed to the Basin Plan applying to the performance of the function or the exercise of the power; or

The plans have already been green - lighted by Haringey Council, but Johnson retained the power to overturn the issuing of planning permission.

Human rights campaigners have hit out at the plans by Enfield council, in London, which could see certain mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs with a limit of 8mph banned from using the pavement.

But if we are unwilling to be placed in this perilous situation; if we still will adhere to the design of a national government, or, which is the same thing, of a superintending power, under the direction of a common council, we must resolve to incorporate into our plan those ingredients which may be considered as forming the characteristic difference between a league and a government; we must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens, — the only proper objects of government.

Returning from a trip to meet the rebel Transitional National Council with international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, William Hague said he had encouraged rebels to have a «detailed plan» for a power transfer in the event of a military victory.

The leaders of the 10 (mainly Labour) councils that comprise the Greater Manchester combined authority met on Friday to study plans for new council powers negotiated with the chancellor, George Osborne.

To give just some examples, all regional planning and housing powers will be repatriated from unelected regional assemblies to democratically accountable local councils, communities will be able to develop neighbourhood plans and councils will have greater flexibility regarding housing allocations and tenancies.

Councils will have greater powers to champion their residents» rights without being held back by central government targets, under new plans unveiled today.

However, the Coalition has said it believes this centrally - driven approach to development is «bureaucratic and undemocratic» and it will therefore abolish regional strategies and return planning powers to councils and communities through the Localism Bill currently before Parliament.

In the latest twist in the effort to rezone elementary schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a parent council with the power to approve or reject the city's plans issued a plea Tuesday: Move a popular school 16 blocks south.

The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt — saving taxpayer money from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.

The speaker was also asked about Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan and how it might fare in the City Council, which has the power to approve rezoning laws and development projects.

Our Housing White Paper set out plans to increase it further, ensuring councils release more land for housing, and giving them new powers to ensure that developers actually build homes once they're given planning permission to do so.

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said that critics of the city's plans to convert a maintenance building into stables in Central Park should just accept that the city has the power to do it.

A Cuomo plan that could add a costly level of oversight to the city's affordable housing financing has no «rational» policy basis and is simply a blatant power grab by the state, according to a scathing new NYC Council report.

In the latest twist in the effort to rezone elementary schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a parent council with the power to approve or reject the city's plans issued a plea: Move a popular school 16 blocks south.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

Far from planning a «Stalinist attack on property rights» (as the Institute of Directors has rather hysterically claimed), Miliband will devolve power to councils, communities and neighbourhoods, and he will promote new institutions that nurture a sense of vocation, value and virtue.

«Say goodbye to the Adirondack brook trout if the Trump administration repeals the Clean Power Plan,» Adirondack Council Spokesman John Sheehan wrote in a statement released shortly before Trump signed the order on Tuesday.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Brooklyn Councilman Carlos Menchaca similarly said they plan to «do everything in our power to fight any attempt to appeal it.»

And it remains to be seen whether the Communities Secretary will line up behind big - scale reform to planning: to work, this would need to take powers from council planners and give them to local people.

Proposals to abandon top - down planning targets and grant more power to local councils would not address the problems in the housing market and could even risk creating new ones, Liberal Democrats said today.

Local authorities would be given a strategic role as «champions» for parents and pupils, but the Lib Dem leader said the plans did not give councils any power to do this, and consequently took power away from locally - elected politicians.

President of European council says plan to repatriate British powers could damage the single market

As part of ULURP, only the City Council and mayor have the power to vote down or approve the armory plan.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said Tuesday that critics of the city's plans to convert a maintenance building into stables in Central Park should just accept that the city has the power to do it.

As de Blasio intimated when discussing Cuomo's new budget powers, the city has a regularly scheduled «budget modification» each November, at which time the mayoral administration and City Council adjust the current year's spending plan and reestimate for the following year.

In some ways, the local council member serves as a check on the power of citywide entities like the mayor's office and the City Planning Commission, which consider land use proposals as they move through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure before reaching the Councilcouncil member serves as a check on the power of citywide entities like the mayor's office and the City Planning Commission, which consider land use proposals as they move through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure before reaching the CouncilCouncil stage.

On Nov. 28, the council adopted a change in the city charter that gives the council more power to step in and prevent developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission.

The change gives the council more power to step in and prevent developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission, whose members are appointed by the mayor.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner today mounted a last - ditch, double - barreled attack against recently passed legislation which, if it survives her challenge, would give the city council more power over the planning commission.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has tapped Brooklyn councilman David Greenfield to be the new chairman of the city's Land Use Committee, a key panel that approves development projects and has veto power over the Department of City Planning's rezoning proposals.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse city councilors are not going to override Mayor Stephanie Miner's veto of a city charter amendment that would have expanded the council's power over the city planning commission.

State Assemblyman Sean Ryan is pitching a plan to take away much of the power of the six Industrial Development Agencies in the county and shift economic development control to the Regional Economic Development Council.

In January, Denno will be one of five returning councilors who supported the measure, which changes the city charter to give the council more power to prevent proposed developments from being killed when they don't pass muster with the five - person planning commission.

Maxwell and his boss, Mayor Stephanie Miner, oppose letting the city council take more power over the planning commission.

Syracuse, NY — The Syracuse Common Council voted 6 - 3 Monday to amend the city charter, expanding the council's power to intervene when the city planning commission reviews applications for building prCouncil voted 6 - 3 Monday to amend the city charter, expanding the council's power to intervene when the city planning commission reviews applications for building prcouncil's power to intervene when the city planning commission reviews applications for building projects.

It will be up to the Wauwatosa Common Council to put teeth in this proposal by using their zoning power to limit the amount of development to that which is planned, restrict the kinds of development to that which is planned, and especially to protect the parkland and habitat as intended in the plan.

However, the following steps, the City Planning Commission and the City Council, both have power to either approve or deny the tech hub project.

Affordability measures are included in bids The City Council - adopted resource plan, which also projects the construction of a 500 - MW natural gas plant, envisions that Austin Energy will acquire the solar energy by 2017 if the power is «available and affordable.»

That compares with an expected 4 percent annual growth in thermal power capacity, half that seen between 2005 and 2011, said Liu Xiangdong, director of planning statistics of the China Electricity Council.

«We do not believe there is capacity within the system to withdraw funding and powers for councils to support school improvement and hold schools to account in August 2017 as currently planned by the government.

Local councils have had pupil place planning powers removed from them.

The fracturing of schools into their own admissions authorities means that local councils who retain a responsibility for strategic planning neverthless had most of their powers stymied.

Kent County Council doesn't have any powers to compel schools to go along with these plans, but they hope they will feel a moral responsibility to level the playing field.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also dodged questions about a potential u-turn on Monday after several news outlets reported plans to give councils the power to start multi-academy trusts.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Local councils find themselves having responsibility for providing places but with insufficient powers to plan, commission or build schools.»