Sentences with phrase «city planning efforts»

Civil engineers apply their engineering skills to infrastructure projects and sometimes municipal buildings, bridges, roads, or city planning efforts.

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City officials poured resources into their effort to lure Amazon's planned second headquarters to Baltimore.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

Adding to the outrage is NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's decision to forge ahead with plans to host the New York City Marathon this weekend, which has some residents feeling like rescue efforts are coming in second to the race...

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

«This has been a cooperative effort between the county and the City of Wheaton, but the city and the Park District have not approved the plan,» said County Board member John Case (R - Naperville), who chairs the Stormwater Management CommitCity of Wheaton, but the city and the Park District have not approved the plan,» said County Board member John Case (R - Naperville), who chairs the Stormwater Management Commitcity and the Park District have not approved the plan,» said County Board member John Case (R - Naperville), who chairs the Stormwater Management Committee.

HED partnered with Mass Audubon, the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the 495 / MetroWest Partnership, the MetroWest Regional Collaborative, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Department of Transportation to advance the regional planning effort in the 37 cities and towns within the 495 / MetroWest Development Compact PlPlanning Commission, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the 495 / MetroWest Partnership, the MetroWest Regional Collaborative, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Department of Transportation to advance the regional planning effort in the 37 cities and towns within the 495 / MetroWest Development Compact PlPlanning Council, the 495 / MetroWest Partnership, the MetroWest Regional Collaborative, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and Massachusetts Department of Transportation to advance the regional planning effort in the 37 cities and towns within the 495 / MetroWest Development Compact Plplanning effort in the 37 cities and towns within the 495 / MetroWest Development Compact Plan area.

The City University of New York, troubled by federal and state investigations, plans to overhaul the rules governing its affiliated nonprofit foundations as part of an effort to reassure alumni and donors.

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De Blasio has sought to position New York City as a leader in the fight against climate change, but even as he has committed to quickly come up with an aggressive plan to further reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the agency that is supposed to lead that effort is in flux.

She intends to endorse the MoveNY plan (she was a supporter of the previous congestion - pricing effort), and will continue to work with stakeholders and the communities to transform Amsterdam Avenue, one of the most dangerous streets in New York City, into a complete street.

A host of other special interests — ranging from upstate mayors and county executives to Mothers Against Drunk Driving to the NAACP — all lauded Cuomo's plan, pointing to everything from ride - sharing that gets drunks off the road to transit efforts that will help inner - city workers get to jobs.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The two city agencies that are most likely to contribute resources to a plan to substantially reduce new HIV infections in New York saw their funding cut in the city's preliminary budget, suggesting that any effort those agencies might make to advance the plan will be paid for by reprogramming existing cash -LSB-...]

The state's top economic development official says a plan in Congress to eliminate the historic tax credit program would harm efforts to revitalize cities in New York.

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

De Blasio, who just yesterday refused to adjust his spending plans to allow for hostile action from Washington, noted that the precise language of the coming executive orders is still unknown — but vowed to fight any efforts to uproot the city's five million residents lacking legal status.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced a new plan to make sure food pantries are available at all State University of New York and City University of New York colleges in an effort to prevent student food insecurity.

Oddo started one last effort to halt the project last year by forcing the new streets to be part of the official city map and go through the city's lengthy Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) which could cripple their plans.

independence from Mr. de Blasio: making amendments to his housing plan, throwing cold water all over his crumbling effort to ban horse carriages (but only after first carrying the water for it), breaking from him on the efforts to cap Uber in the city.

Most recently, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was stymied in his effort to create a plan, which was ultimately blocked in the state Assembly.

The ex-Beep's 5 pm to 10 pm shift at Noodle Pudding will be short - lived, but he said he plans to soon make other maître d' appearances in restaurants in The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island as part of the city's efforts encourage tourism to its boroughs beyond Manhattan.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Building on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to attract a new tech campus to the city, Quinn announced plans to create a new business incubator at the City University of New York next ycity, Quinn announced plans to create a new business incubator at the City University of New York next yCity University of New York next year.

The effort is connected to the city's «ThriveNYC» plan to improve mental health services across the five boroughs.

Despite a bruising round of budget cuts this spring, the city plans to lay off 250 more workers by the end of Jun 2012, in effort to save another $ 500 million, the new documents show.

It was legislation sponsored by Sen. Klein in June in the State Senate that allowed for New York City's speed limit, in line with Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero plan, to be lowered to 25 miles per hour in an effort to prevent fatalities.

In a radio interview this morning, the governor claimed the new plans would be «an unprecedented joint effort between the state and the city» and asserted suggestions that he was looking to «cut [Mr. de Blasio] off at the knees» had anti-Italian overtones.

Rodriguez thinks the Department of City Planning, Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and Department of Transportation (DOT)- the three city agencies key to the BQX plan - have all improved community outreach efforts in recent years, and should continue to engage residents» while planning the streetCity Planning, Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and Department of Transportation (DOT)- the three city agencies key to the BQX plan - have all improved community outreach efforts in recent years, and should continue to engage residents» while planning the stPlanning, Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and Department of Transportation (DOT)- the three city agencies key to the BQX plan - have all improved community outreach efforts in recent years, and should continue to engage residents» while planning the streetcity agencies key to the BQX plan - have all improved community outreach efforts in recent years, and should continue to engage residents» while planning the stplanning the streetcar.

Introduced at the end of July by City Councilman Mark Levine, the bill has since gained the support of 12 fellow councilmembers through the lobbying efforts of Levine's staff and parents at P.S. 163, a West 97th Street elementary school that would neighbor a construction site under a plan to build a 20 - story nursing home development.

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.

It's not just that he forced the mayor to cough up $ 2.7 billion more for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital plan and then saddled the city with half the cost of the $ 436 million emergency effort to fix problems created by his own neglect of the MTA.

The plan's efforts include incorporating hybrid cars into city fleets.

After putting the decision on hold for nearly a month, the Niagara Falls City Council yesterday acted on Mayor Paul Dyster's plan to remove City Controller Maria Brown, unanimously approving the effort.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.

Cuomo this year backed a plan that was similar to the effort in Onondaga County to find ways of merging governments, potentially to create a metropolitan - style government that subsumes the city of Syracuse.

To get this victory — and the governor will no doubt be touting it far and wide as a victory — Cuomo had to compromise quite a bit, jettisoning his efforts to shift Medicaid and higher ed costs onto New York City (thanks to the Assembly Democrats, who dug in their heels on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's behalf), and also bowing to the Legislature's refusal to reauthorize the so - called «rational» tuition plan for SUNY and CUNY, providing the systems with an additional $ 85 million in aid plus $ 300 million in capital funding.

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.

«As commissioner of housing preservation and development in New York City, Shaun has led the effort to create the largest housing plan in the nation, helping hundreds of thousands of our citizens buy or rent their homes,» Obama said.

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

Governor Cuomo dropped a plan to shift $ 250 million dollars in Medicaid costs to New York City in favor of a joint effort with the City to wring savings out of the program,, after Assembly Democrats, many of whom are from New York City, objected.

The Mayor and other city and county leaders from Rochester, Syracuse, Westchester and Suffolk say they've begun a bi partisan lobbying effort to back Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to enact a new benefit tier for public workers hired in the future.

In a fight that is fracturing labor groups, the umbrella New York City Central Labor Council has decided to team up with one member union against another in an effort to stymie Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to limit the operation of pedicabs in Central Park.

In addition to his affordable housing plan, De Blasio said he would continue Bloomberg's efforts to improve the immigrant experience to make the city attractive to technology employees.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

After reporting on Hurricane Sandy, he broke the story of how the city planned a multibillion dollar effort to increase its resistance to climate change, and reported from the Netherlands on how the Dutch prepare for higher sea levels.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to close a New York - based laboratory that has helped the city's Police and Fire Departments develop systems to detect nuclear and biological threats, a move that some local officials fear could hamper the city's efforts to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks.

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Ed Ott, Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council stated, «This event is part of a well - planned and strategic effort by the labor movement to ensure that the next Congressman from Staten Island is pro worker in fact, not just in gesture.

They argue the city's plan to destroy personal documents associated with it, like foreign and U.S. passports, visas, birth certificates, and utility bills and leases, would hinder law enforcement efforts and violate Freedom of Information laws that require government transparency.