Sentences with phrase «community opposition to the project»

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.

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He also helped form the Uptown Community Democrats club and was a founding member of activist group Northern Manhattan is Not for Sale, which is currently engaged in opposition to the proposed Sherman Plaza project in Inwood.

Martins acknowledged that he «fought like hell» to stop the third track, but said opposition forced the LIRR and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to accommodate his concerns about the impact to local communities in their new project proposal.

A lively Milwaukee Common Council committee hearing over public financing for a new basketball arena revealed a higher price tag for the city's contribution to the project and new opposition from the community activist group Common Ground.

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.

Some community groups and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine expressed immediate opposition to the project, saying it amounted to trading «green for green.»

Nearly two dozen members of the Saugerties chapter of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a bi-state group that has spearheaded opposition to the project in communities along the proposed route in New York and New Jersey, showed up at the meeting.

Speaker Mark - Viverito spoke in generalities about individual projects and the needs of different communities, and the ability to leverage neighborhood opposition.

In that time, the city's two tabloids, the New York Post and the Daily News, have taken every opportunity to whack at Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. for his opposition to the project, which gave the necessary juice to a community and labor - backed effort to defeat it in the City Council.

Again, assuming that the government decided to for the unit cost of PURC 2016 proposed borehole project estimates of ghc60, 000 per one mechanized borehole, * which the npp in opposition said it's unreasonable and expensive *, government would have been able to provide 58 mechanized boreholes perhaps in 58 rural communities which do not have potable drinking water supply with a change of ghc20, 000.

Many of the large sects that the OP is referring to is backed by military powers such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, and most western nations are willing to project enormous power to protect their Muslim communities when they present a strong or even forceful opposition to extremists.

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.

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.

Dairy farmers in Illinois have the potential to earn tens of thousands of dollars a year by leasing land for community solar projects, but similar projects in other agricultural areas have faced steep opposition....

Thanks to the opposition from indigenous communities along the entire pipeline route and people up and down the coast, the Canadian government has been forced to stall the project for yet another year of environmental review.

17 January 2017 One month after an opposition leader of the Paiter - Surui indigenous people sparked an uncharacteristically public debate about the people's landmark forest carbon project, several village and clan leaders sent a «letter of clarification» to the Federal Public Ministry (Ministério Público Federal) outlining what they see as flaws in the governing mechanisms designed to handle community finances.

A total of 137 different communities, agencies and initiatives in Lower Saxony alone registered their opposition to the project during the review process.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

Protests are planned to continue throughout the week as community vows to sustain actions in opposition to Kinder Morgan's pipeline and tanker project

Local community members vowed to continue supporting opposition to the construction project.