Sentences with phrase «acquire city land»

What: Convicted of bribery and official misconduct in 2008 for offering to help a developer acquire city land if he built her house for free.

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Setting aside the physics, the bureaucracy of acquiring land rights between large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco and dealing with all the legal issues around large - scale infrastructure construction could be significant hurdles, regardless of who builds a prototype system.

In the presentation, I mentioned that upon reading the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho for myself, I realized it was a story about genocide, with God commanding Joshua to kill every man, woman, and child in the city for the sole purpose of acquiring land.

The leased acreage brought Joe and the Straus family together when, in 1988, the City of Santa Rosa attempted to acquire the leased land to create a sewage reservoir.

The City of Chicago and the Trust for Public Land have acquired key properties for three new parks and trail access ramps along the Canadian Pacific railroad line at Bloomingdale Avenue.

The city is preparing to acquire land for three neighborhood parks, two of them part of large lakefront residential developments.

We hope that Mayor (and former Public Advocate) de Blasio will recognize his fiduciary responsibility to City taxpayers, and determine a sale price for valuable Willets Point Phase One land that at least recoups all of the public funds spent to acquire it.

Albany County Land Bank Executive director Adam Zaranko: «In the City of Albany, currently we have over 60 vacant and abandoned buildings of sale and about another 70 that we recently acquired from the county through the tax foreclosure process that we're evaluating and will likely go to sale.

Initially planning to build solely on existing public land, part of which had been acquired through state buyouts after Hurricane Sandy, the city determined in recent months that it needed to acquire 25 additional parcels, three of which have occupied homes.

Working in tandem with Syracuse government, the land bank acquires properties that the city seizes for back taxes.

Miner filed a lawsuit this month seeking to halt the project after the Onondaga County IDA approved tax breaks for COR Development Co., the Inner Harbor developer that acquired the land from the city.

Even though Oak Creek officials abandoned their idea of using eminent domain to acquire his land, Earl Giefer said he is worried he will become a target of city zoning enforcement.

City Hall this week introduced a land use application that would require new self - storage facilities to acquire special permits in certain parts of manufacturing districts in the outer boroughs, a move largely seen as tantamount to a ban on the business, which is acutely undersupplied in the five boroughs.

In the last year, the land bank has acquired 165 properties that had been seized by the city for back taxes.

The Syracuse public school system projects it will collect nearly a $ 1 million less this year because of properties acquired by the city's land bank.

«MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Monday the league is «at the finish line» in talks with the city to acquire land in soccer - crazed Queens for a stadium to house the league's 20th team.»

In July 2009, the city acquired 30 acres of land from the Port Authority and the Empire State Development Corporation, and, in February 2011, construction on the development's first two building began.

Monica Kurzejeski, the city's economic development coordinator and the acting land bank executive director, said there are also 88 vacant buildings owned by the city that could be acquired.

The land bank will acquire abandoned properties with the goal of returning them to the city's tax rolls.

Cambria Automobile Plc. in the U.K. has acquired a Land Rover dealership from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire from Jardine Motors Group and sold its Grange Jaguar franchise in Exeter to H...

Fortunately, the opportunity to acquire a very large parcel of land has enabled us to build a second facility, Hyde Park Animal Hospital, located at 6937 S. Stony Island Avenue, which is unequaled in the city of Chicago.

Stem said the property inside the shelter's fence originally was dedicated for another purpose, but never was developed, requiring the city to acquire the land in order to build there.

But now those volunteers have acquired an «outlaw» status themselves, over their refusal to abide by a city ordinance banning feeding of feral cats on public land.

Los Hermanos Bibbins, whom the Mestizo settlers erroneously regarded as the owners of the land, were probably agents of Welsh and Gough, two Belize City merchants who were the actual owners at the time, having acquired title in 1842.

The Dark - zone on the other hand is where things really hit the fan, a no - man's land completely walled off from the rest of the city these areas function as PVP zones as well where you can acquire some of the best loot.

Shown at his parents» home in Mexico City, the artist recounts how the home was constructed with found materials after his father acquired the empty land in the mid-1960s.

One of the big complaints about modern prefab is its inability to deliver at the cost that everyone expects (like matching production housing or less) and the problem of acquiring land, which is expensive, particularly in areas around cities like San

Attorney John R. Orton assisted the Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau, in conjunction with the City of Wisconsin Dells, in acquiring additional land for the expansion of the «Just A Game» field house.

Edwards advised Belgravia Living, a joint venture between Town Centre Securities and GMI Construction, on acquiring land in Manchester's city centre, which is intended for the construction of a residential apartment scheme.

(9) A tax deed or notice of vesting, when registered, vests in the person named in the deed or in the City, as the case may be, any interest in or title to adjoining land acquired by adverse possession before the registration of the tax deed or notice of vesting if the person originally acquiring the interest or title by adverse possession did so as a consequence of possession of the land described in the tax deed or notice of vesting.

The agreement sets in motion the negotiations between FF and the city for the car company to acquire 157 acres of land on Mare Island, a former naval shipyard.

The land for the proposed Steyn City development was first acquired by Plumari in 1994.

In other cities such as Seattle, it's difficult to acquire land and sales have been relatively modest, while in places like Northern California rents aren't high enough to buy land for apartments.»

The city had acquired 98 percent of the land with voluntary sales, but homeowners on 1.54 acres refused to sell.

«The reason that it is so valuable and they are able to sell a piece of it is because it's very hard to get a mall into the densest part of a city — the hardest thing to do is to acquire the land,» said retail consultant Cynthia Cohen, president of Strategic Mindshare.