Sentences with phrase «citizen input»

However, a smarter approach is to examine the statistics in the community, seek citizen input and weigh the factors involved in the attacks.

What's at risk here: the quality of our «Millennium Park of Nature» or the dismissal of citizen input in important planning decisions?

Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they've basically stopped accepting electronic communications...

This alternative scenario was created directly from citizen input at the Mapping Workshops where participants from across the region worked together to map out a future vision for Buffalo Niagara.

The renewed talks have sparked protests from the Trade Justice Network and other civil society groups who warn that because the TPP was created without citizen input, it can not be the basis for Canada's future trade relationships with Asia - Pacific nations.

Three alternative scenarios were created directly from citizen input at the Mapping Workshops where participants from across the region worked together to map out a future vision for Buffalo Niagara.

But she soon became disillusioned, convinced that the state didn't really want citizen input — it already had a plan and was simply seeking approval.

Rep. Julie VanOrden, R - Pingree, said the standards weren't bad, but lawmakers felt they should take more citizen input before approving them.

The community - based vision complies with the city's downtown waterfront master plan, drafted in 1997 with considerable citizen input, which limits building heights along the riverfront to 8 stories.

Land owners like Haynes have the right to contest the petitions, but now that the company has dropped opposition, any future wind development in Molunkus must include citizen input.

«We have asked the Governor for months to hold a transparent process with full citizen input on all major water quality issues, and he simply refuses.

Ontario's Liberal government ran a complex but fair system for getting province - wide citizen input for a design of a new system.

Wikkipedia's cofounder, Larry Sanger has launched a six - week pilot project that will combine citizen input with «expert» guidance according to the recent press release.

As such, this is the first project ever developed that invites citizen input to shape a future science instrument for courts, and the first project ever developed in which citizens shape future criminal sentencing standards.

«We are laying out a process, without presuming what the final product will be, that results in a combination of citizen input, legislative discussion, Executive Branch review, input from professionals who run the airport and ultimately public policy that is set by my office and the Board of Legislators,» Latimer stated.

Udall unveils the plan April 13 at a public meeting seeking citizen input at Noah's Ark Rafting in Nathrop, near Browns Canyon.

It was a bad deal cut at the eleventh hour, without citizen input — and now the Governor has a real mess on his hands.

But Royal soon became disillusioned, convinced that the state didn't really want citizen input — it already had a plan and was simply seeking approval.

Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they've basically stopped accepting electronic communications from constituents.

Take, for example, the common contention that Hitler acted coercively when he placed Jews in concentration camps or the claim that parents are acting coercively when they finally pick up their recalcitrant children and make them go to bed or the common contention that a government is acting coercively when it refuses to give its citizens any input into the formulation of the laws by which they are governed.

A search for a new chief to lead the city of Albany's police force is underway following three community meetings seeking citizen input.

There will be public hearings — at least one,» said Metzger, noting that citizen input would be «very important» at that stage.

«I presume that the final product will be a combination of citizen input, legislative discussion, and executive branch review.

In low income communities and communities of color, we have not always valued the power of citizen input and the capacities within communities to coalesce around their children.

Canada needs an open dialogue, with citizen input, on ethical questions and international standards surrounding lethal autonomous weapons, and how to build a framework for oversight in the use of AI.