Sentences with phrase «community opposition»

After massive community opposition, the school was later taken off of the closure list but nothing was done to change its starvation budget.

The redevelopment plan has been fraught with community opposition, particularly over a proposed grocery store for the space, and repeated delays.

In 2010, the Republican majority also briefly took up the issue before dropping it following community opposition.

Currently, as soon as one proposed new coal mine, gasfield, or oil well is successfully stopped as a result of community opposition based around local environmental impacts or other non-climate reasons, another similar proposal nearby or elsewhere takes its place.more...

Proposed tar sands infrastructure projects are being pushed forward in BC, despite the fact that many affected Indigenous Nations have refused consent under their own laws, and in the face of widespread community opposition.

Originally, Doris and Donald Fisher had wanted to build their own museum in the Presidio district of San Francisco, but after two years of strong community opposition to their plan, the Fishers agreed to place their «trust» with SFMOMA.

Two new homeless shelters are on the drawing board for southern Brooklyn — one of which is already facing community opposition, officials said Thursday.

In such areas, she met significant community opposition, including from Carmen Fariña, now the schools chancellor, when Ms. Moskowitz opened a school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

Whether Youmans will move forward with the plan despite community opposition is unclear.

But the condo and hotel project was scrapped in December amid fierce community opposition, even after Howard Hughes had scaled back its proposal to 42 stories.

Rodriguez numbered among the council members who voted in favor of MIH, but he was ultimately swayed by community opposition to the Inwood proposal, which would have rezoned a lot at the corner of Broadway and Sherman Avenue that Acadia had purchased in early 2009 for $ 19 million.

In the face of vehement community opposition, the Hoosick Falls Village Board agreed last night to table a vote on a proposed $ 850,000 settlement with the companies blamed for polluting the community's drinking water.

Currently, as soon as one climate - damaging project is successfully stopped as a result of community opposition based around local environmental impacts or other non-climate reasons, another similar proposal nearby or elsewhere takes its place.more...

Officials in the town of Tyre and Seneca County have issued statements backing the casino, but the Onondaga County Legislature pulled a resolution of support for the project earlier this month, amid community opposition.

Despite the progress in creating a state park, plans to develop the remaining golf course acreage continued, and community opposition stayed strong.

Rodríguez acknowledged community opposition to the city's plan to redevelop Inwood Library, which he has backed.

Community opposition increased, and A.E.G. Live submitted a separate application for a Randalls Island on Jan. 4.

Mangano also instituted a school zone speed camera program that raised $ 30 million, but Nassau lawmakers repealed the program after intense community opposition.

OTB had announced plans to put the VLTS in the old Fortunoff department store in Westbury but community opposition killed the plan.

In January, the Nassau Regional Off - Track Betting Corp. abandoned its pursuit of a casino - style gaming parlor at the vacant Fortunoff building in Westbury after vocal community opposition.

Project developer Bruce Ratner, of Forest City Ratner Companies, said that this announcement was a key victory for the plan, which has faced immense community opposition.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will face stiff community opposition, lawsuits and demonstrations if the agency builds its new bus terminal west of Ninth Avenue, an elected official warned Monday.

The downtown San Jose Tamien site should have been the first of the 20 to open, however, strong community opposition led to a number of defeats culminating in Rocketship withdrawing their Tamien application.

The State Board of Education continually rubber - stamps charter applications, trampling community opposition, and ignoring their duty to prevent charter school segregation and over-concentration.

If the bureaucracy can't stop you, the unions will by buying the state legislature or ginning up community opposition, and the media is often complicit, amplifying shortcomings and downplaying success.

Already, some dams slated for development upstream of the Three Gorges Dam are attracting community opposition.

As the case made its way through the European Commission, Macerl rallied community opposition while simultaneously managing his farm.

Because of community opposition wherever fracking has since been proposed, people have successfully kept the industry at bay throughout the UK.

In many areas, there is also strong Indigenous community opposition to the farms, as many farms are operating in First Nations territories without free, prior and informed consent.

Overall, parental opposition was very low, and key informants did not perceive community opposition to be a major challenge; rather, lack of funding and teacher training, and opposition by specific influential religious groups, were identified as key obstacles.

When it comes to handling competition on new developments the big retail REITs have acquired a reputation for being ruthless, employing tactics such as funding community opposition groups to derail each others» projects, says Patrick Fox, president of Saint Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in zoning and land - use battles.

They fan community opposition.

City Council has approved the controversial Soho Business Improvement District after a three - year delay and despite widespread community opposition.

But following significant community opposition to the project, with protesters deeming it not affordable enough and saying it would hasten gentrification, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez withdrew his support.

Mary continued: «Celebration of this decision in Scotland is bittersweet given the news that the UK Government have ignored massive community opposition and approved fracking in Lancashire today.

If all new coal and gas extraction projects are slated for export, why do state and territory governments even consider allowing new fossil fuel extraction projects despite the climate imperative of keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and despite often fierce community opposition?

In New York, museum expansions often meet with community opposition, fuss, and bluster.

Inspired by community opposition to a proposed baseball stadium project just north of Philadelphia's Chinatown, the exhibition and community protests contributed to the successful cancellation of the Chinatown stadium project.

HOOSICK FALLS — In the face of vehement community opposition, the Hoosick Falls Village Board agreed Thursday night to table a vote on a proposed $ 850,000 settlement with the companies blamed for polluting the community's drinking water.

Fred Baptiste, the parent of a child at PS 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is having its middle school grades truncated despite strong community opposition, said the change on co-locations would be an important first step.

It has also faced community opposition.

In response to an outpouring of community opposition, followed by a lawsuit seeking cancellation of a town permit, the organizers of the MTK: Music to Know festival, slated for Aug. 13 and 14, are seeking Federal Aviation Administration and East...

ALBANY PARK — Wearing buttons that say «Save Our Park,» residents of the Albany Park neighborhood told the Chicago Park District Board on Wednesday there is strong community opposition to construction of a soccer stadium in West River Park.

Mell believes that community opposition to converting the park to a field is slight and primarily fed through misinformation from dissenters.

The agency chose the site after abandoning the Medford project, which generated significant community opposition.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

NASCAR proposed building a racetrack on the property, but backed out in 2006 due to community opposition.