Sentences with phrase «city planning initiatives»

Solutions such as incorporating parks into building complexes and city planning initiatives can affect noticeable changes in adults as well as the young.

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The two - day event in New York City, sponsored by Time Warner, highlighted the «State of the Network,» and offered insight on exciting new initiatives planned for 2015/2016, in addition to a focus on our certified women business owners.

The one day initiative fits with Vancouver's Greenest City Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food StratCity Action Plan and with environmental goals laid out in the city's recently - released Food Stratcity's recently - released Food Strategy.

The three day event draws on elements of the WABA Global Forum III event originally planned for Quebec City in June 2010, the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) campaigns past and present, the World Breastfeeding Trends initiative (WBTi) and others.

It's easy to find myself in agreement with him on this as it's pretty much the same suggestion John Prescott made with his «Northern Way» initiative fifteen years ago, which planned to connect - up northern cities.

And so when former Mayor Ed Koch launched his $ 5.1 billion housing initiative in 1987, Public Housing That Worked notes that he largely excluded NYCHA from the plan, working instead through the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York City Housing Development Corporation.

Off topic questions the Long Island Railroad and possible strike, the City's contingency plans and role in the event of a strike, whether the petitions supporting continued operation of horse carriages, with 40,000 signatures recently delivered to City Hall affect his thinking on the topic, what the 66 donors to Campaign for One New York expect from the mayor, whether he plans to take any additional vacations this year, what initiatives Campaign for One New York will next focus on, the status of the review of the 911 system upgrade and, concerning his trip to Italy, whether he is packed, whether he's packing his own bags and what food he is most looking forward to.

Earlier this week, Assemblyman Ron Castorina and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis convinced Richmond County Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo to order the city not follow through with longstanding plans to purge the files of municipal I.D. initiative pending proceedings that could last into next year.

Mr. de Blasio said the initiative was part of the city's larger plan to address mental health, led by Chirlane McCray, his wife.

The initiative is linked to the city's «ThriveNYC» plan to improve mental health services across the five boroughs; the plan aims to provide more services early - on and close treatment gaps.

He said the city has reassigned officers to help with traffic enforcement in his Vision Zero initiative, and thinks that will be enough to both keep the city safe from crime and implement the pedestrian safety plan.

But there's no timeline currently as to what Walsh's shared services initiative will exactly look like since it's still in the early planning stages, Andrews said, and the city is currently not ready to release any specific ideas to the public.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who has been spearheading the initiative with EDC, has long touted his plan for Inwood's waterfront.

It's one of several events planned in Staten Island as part of the new «City Hall in Your Borough» initiative, where de Blasio and senior staff will work out of a satellite office for a week in each borough by the end of the year.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

As Councilman Ellis pushed plans and initiatives to deal with abandoned buildings, address lack of diversity in the fire department, and create public access TV, and introduced a measure requiring city department heads to live in the city.

Plans to support Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh's pledge to create cost - saving initiatives between the city and Onondaga County are still in the early stages of being developed, a city official recently said.

Gennaro and Bloomberg have worked together on green initiatives in the city and on Earth Day this year, Gennaro joined Bloomberg to launch a six - point plan to make existing large buildings energy - efficient through retrofits.

Gennaro praised Bloomberg's PlaNYC, a master plan for building an environmentally sustainable New York which, like Local Law 55, lays out initiatives for cutting the city's greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030.

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

He defended his record, which he said includes the universal prekindergarten initiative, his affordable housing plan, the city's work to support and protect immigrants and reducing the use of the stop and frisk policing method «93 percent while driving down crime.»

During his fifth annual «State of the City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2022.

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.

Initiatives such as bike lanes and pedestrian plazas can be very beneficial to the city but it is important that they occur after thorough planning and include conversation among all those involved.

Mayor Bill de Blasio slapped back at city Comptroller Scott Stringer — the man discontented business interests hope to recruit to challenge him in next year's Democratic primary — for his critiques yesterday of the mayor's key initiatives to combat income inequality, including of his signature affordable housing plan.

The Creedmoor idea, first reported by the New York Post a little more than a week ago, was among the plans Cuomo was considering as part of a larger initiative to address New York City's growing homeless crisis.

He plans to replicate the «Buffalo Billion» economic development initiative in other upstate cities through the creation of the Upstate Revitalization Fund.

To reel in costs, Cuomo announced an initiative that would require every county outside of New York City to prepare a plan to help «streamline» government and cut waste.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner spiked five proposals from a countywide shared services plan shepherded by Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, leaving just one initiative in which the city and county plan to work together to save money.

But Glen and City Planning Commissioner Carl Weisbrod pointed out that some of their biggest zoning initiatives, Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH), have yet to take effect.

One of the newest initiatives got a boost recently when the Sunrise Rotary announced it will sponsor a plan to create an Arts Walk in the center city.

Both nonprofits are registered as 501 (c) 4s with the Internal Revenue Service, meaning they can raise unlimited funds to lobby and advertise for political causes — specifically, for mayoral initiatives like universal pre-kindergarten and for his sweeping plans to rezone the city to boost below - market housing production.

The executive budget increased overall spending by only about $ 100 million compared to the preliminary budget, but added a number of new initiatives paid for by $ 1.25 billion in additional savings, including an ambitious plan to overhaul the floundering municipal hospital system, New York City Health + Hospitals.

Politico New York reports that the initiative will be funded through a mixture of low - income - housing tax credits, private sources, and city money, some of which had already been budgeted as part of de Blasio's housing plan announced last May.

The initiative requires counties outside of New York City to prepare «a plan for shared, coordinated and efficient services among the units of local governments contained within the county, excluding school districts,» according to the governor's office.

De Blasio's campaign responded with a typical comment harping on the mayor's universal prekindergarten initiative, his executive orders hiking pay floors for public employees and city contract workers, his affordable housing plan and the continued downward trajectory of the crime rate during his tenure.

She released the proposal after comments made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that if Syracuse wanted their own version of the «Buffalo Billion» program, which provided state funding to western New York for economic development initiatives, then the city needed to develop a plan.

The Democratic governor's initiative requires each county outside of New York City to come up with a plan, like Mahoney's, to reduce duplicated government services.

Bramson pledged to implement «the most ambitious downtown development plan in the entire Hudson Valley» and to «seize hold of tomorrow» through city - wide infrastructure and environmental initiatives.

Cuomo then announced two state - sponsored initiatives outside city limits — a $ 30 million state investment in Solvay and the western shore of Onondaga Lake, and a $ 15 million plan to establish a nanotechnology center in DeWitt.

The city of Ahmedabad, India, where about 25 percent of the residents live in slum communities, announced a heat action plan in 2017 that includes a cool roofs initiative to paint or otherwise convert at least 500 slum household roofs and to improve the reflectivity of roofs on government buildings and schools.

I recently published [March 20, 2018] a piece on «smart cities» both an art / science event in Toronto and a Canadian government initiative without mentioning the necessity of new technology to support all of the grand plans.

Over the next two years, the initiative will host a series of conferences at the Ed School, and work closely in the field with mayors and other city officials in six cities to create individual plans to tackle a specific childhood challenge.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

A DOE spokesperson tells me that an implementation plan for the mayor's early reading initiative is coming later this year, and that the city will work with «national experts and universities» to train the seven hundred new reading specialists they plan to hire.

The city's Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR) is home to the College and Career Planning team, which spearheads the College Access for All initiative to promote the various elements of CCR across the school system.

Each city is designing its own ambitious agenda, created through a Children's Cabinet with the support of a site - based consultant, to develop a plan for change that is inclusive of the community and builds on existing initiatives.

While By All Means 2.0 will build off the initiative's original framework — featuring local children's cabinets, biannual convenings, and city - based consultants — there will also be a new focus on specific areas of work, including creating individualized student success plans and identifying the resources necessary to expand educational opportunities for children.

The Mind Trust is building a network of the nation's highest - impact education initiatives, helping to launch life - changing schools, and advancing bold plans for transforming the city's education system.

Hansen serves on the Operating Board for Alignment Nashville, the Board of Directors for the Exchange Club Family Center, and a number of city leadership councils, including those focused on the Child and Youth Master Plan, the Nashville AfterZone Alliance, Healthy Nashville initiatives, and the Education and Youth Resource Team for Nashville Next, the city's 25 - year planning process.