Sentences with phrase «city planning processes»

He dismissed criticism, from the mayor and others, that he's trying to bypass normal city planning processes by going to the ballot.

A skeptical article in The New York Times reported that the show presented «35 artists» largely acerbic views of the real estate industry and the city planning process through drawings, montages, cartoons, architectural mockups and, in one case, a sculpture made of cigarette wrappers.»

Not exact matches

«If you are thoughtful about how you handle the process, you're going to get a lot more money for your business,» says John Bird, president and co-founder of Albion Financial Group, a Salt Lake City - based investment and planning firm.

BCS reps were originally planning to open up the process to any city interested in hosting the game, but decided to narrow down the field due to the limited time remaining before the contest.

The process of even finding a site for a new stadium has been long and laborious, but between the two Wembley finals last season, the go - ahead for a new ground at the out - of - town site at Monks Cross — where the city's professional Rugby League side, the Knights, play — was finally given and work is expected to begin shortly with the plan to be in it for the start of the 2013 - 14 season.

In Franklin City Schools in Virginia, Lawrence Whiting is sharing the lessons he learned during the planning and implementation process.

With that decision, the Park District's development plans have now cleared the city's planning and zoning approval process, Executive Director Gayle Mountcastle said.

The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

The planning process began in earnest in 2006, after the demolition of an aging, two - story bath and restroom facility, according to a city memo.

Forecasting numbers for instance may on the one hand facilitate a planning process that ensures adequate capacity for newcomers, especially at a city or local level, but on the other it can feed a frenzied public discussion for whom any number is too many.

With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all - time high, de Blasio unveiled a five - year plan in February to reduce homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and expanding 30 existing ones, but the process of locating them has become contentious.

After learning about the administration's change of plans, Seabrook chided City Hall and D.O.C. for failing to include the union in the planning process.

Partnership for New York City's CEO Kathy Wylde is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Fix NYC committee, who is in the process of drafting a plan for congestion pricing in Manhattan.

«Jamestown looks forward to continuing its discussions with area stakeholders as the plan moves to the next and final phase of the approval process, which is consideration by the New York City Council.»

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Over the course of the approval process, Jamestown had made several concessions to city planning officials and opponents of the project, nixing a plan to build a hotel and earmarking money for affordable housing.

The City should provide planning and community organizing resources to organizations such as the Chinatown Working Group, which has brought together many of Chinatown's diverse stakeholders, in order to allow them to undertake a community - based process for meeting Chinatown's traffic concerns and related planning issues, with cultural and linguistic sensitivity to the area's unique character.

ULURP is a lengthy review process that begins with a project being certified for review by City Planning, which happened in March.

CIVIC CENTER — Many elderly New Yorkers want the City Council to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial rezoning plan as is because they «don't have time» to wait for a long bureaucratic process to play out amid a housing crisis for seniors.

The Queens Borough Board's evaluation of the proposed amendments is part of a six - month citywide public review process that began in late September as mandated by the City Charter, and includes separate reviews by Community Boards and Borough Presidents, as well as by the City Planning Commission around mid-December.

On Wednesday, de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson revealed a plan that involves a single public review process for four proposed sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens.

The Action Plan is the product of the Jamaica Planning Initiative, a neighborhood - based process launched by Borough President Katz and Mayor Bill de Blasio that has brought City government and local stakeholders together to develop ideas to promote Jamaica's development.

Off topic questions included a Department of Investigations report detailing problems with corrections officers at Rikers Island, de Blasio's message to protestors resuming anti-NYPD protests, his relationship with police unions, a call by the head of the Lieutentants Benevolent Association to strengthen laws concerning resisting arrest, an increase in police protection for Jewish organizations and sites and Dov Hikind's claim of a decrease in police presence, delays in the implementation of the City's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requeCity's municipal ID card program, his message to PBA members dissatisfied with their union leadership, his position on a city council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requecity council plan to fund the purchase of additional bullet - proof vests for police officers, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns around the recent protests as it considers whether to hold the 2016 convention in Brooklyn, whether his «thoughts» on the anti-NYPD protests have «evolved» and whether he will direct the NYPD to change its FOIL request process to accept email or other electronic requests.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

Keeping New Yorkers, especially those living near the planned route, between Sunset Park and Astoria, involved in the planning process until construction begins in 2019 (or 2020, the administration has not set a firm date yet) will be the next challenge for city officials.

Irwin Cantor, one of the city planning commissioners, on Wednesday hinted at a possible compromise, one that takes into account the $ 1 billion that Madison Square Garden is now in the process of spending to fix up its interior.

When the application process began, the state's plan was for as many as four gambling resorts in three upstate regions and possibly up to three more in the New York City area within seven years.

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The City of Buffalo plans to allocate $ 300,000 for unspecified new software to facilitate more building permits, which the mayor says will make the process of issuing them more efficient.

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Because the changes made to the application fall within the scope of the project, they do not need to restart the process and apply again with the Department of City Planning, Travis said.

The Department of City Planning plans to kick of its zoning change review process on Aug. 21, after it has heard the committee's recommendations, the release added.

The Department of City Planning presented its plan to Community Board 6's housing committee on Tuesday, as part of an ongoing review process, sparking concerns from residents that it would give preference to low - income residents and leave those making middle incomes out in the cold.

While rezoning for the site is still going through the public land use review process, the plan has been approved by Community Board 4, Bronx Borough President Reuben Diaz Jr,, and the City Planning Commission.

Early in the bargaining process, Carl Weisbrod, the director of the Department of City Planning and Alicia Glen, the deputy mayor for housing and economic development, eagerly declared that developer Alma Realty had agreed to committing 20 percent of the new floor space to low and middle - income units.

Earlier on Thursday, the borough president held a press conference to announce his support of a plan to put an ice hockey complex at the long - vacant Kingsbridge Armory, which the city is in the process of redeveloping.

«Let's prioritize this process and put a plan in place for how the city is going to move forward, because it's not working as it is,» Mahoney said in an interview Tuesday.

If the 1961 law were found to be invalid, the development might fall into a category called a major concession — defined by the Department of City Planning as any privately run enterprise bigger than 15,000 square feet sited on public land — and thus subject to another public review process.

The opinion of the board and Adams is only advisory, as is the decision by the City Planning Commission (CPC), which will consider the project next in the ULURP process.

The alternative is not included in the city's current application, but self - storage supporter are planning on pushing for its inclusion through the public review process.

There's still a long road ahead, including a vote by the full board tonight, the creation of a detailed plan for the development sites and the city's exhaustive land use process.

«The EIS process given to the community instead of a ULURP,» said Guerra, «is led by the developer and the Department of City Planning.

«Time and again,» they wrote, «we have looked to the Department of City Planning to provide the proper pathways for approval in this process, and to ensure that a thorough and transparent public review would occur.»

The sooner the city begins the process of implementing actions to close the budget gaps during the financial plan period, the smaller the gaps will be in fiscal years 2019 through 2021.

They argued that the city's land use approval process obviously needs to be reformed, since large development plans can be implemented without any real role for communities in the decision - making process.

The amended budget plan will now go before the Panel for Educational Policy and must then be approved by the City Council as part of the annual budget process.

As the Department of City Planning testified, we believe that the pre-certification process provides value to applicants, to decision makers in the public review process and to the public.

As part of the city's multi-year financial planning process, budget games begin well before each fiscal year begins.

The DOE's capital plan must still be reviewed by the Community Education Councils, the Panel for Educational Policy and the City Council as part of the regular budget process.