Sentences with phrase «community planning more»

Aside from giving talks at community events, the Village Project has worked on facilitation to make community planning more inclusive, and has developed a number of concept plans for Orange County neighborhoods with a view to encouraging more pedestrian - friendly development.

A D.C. court upholds automated enforcement; communities plan more roundabouts; a federal agency refuses to allow teenage truckers.

Not exact matches

The community rallied, and Kepler's reopened later that year with a new business plan and more than $ 1 million invested by locals who didn't want to see the family - owned business perish.

Richards and Karp advise those who support Planned Parenthood's mission to be more vocal and visible than before, using the #TechStandsWithPP hashtag to share stories about how Planned Parenthood has touched their lives and communities.

As Fortune reports here for the first time, Dell's deals reflect a decade or more of meticulous planning, as well as some vital, long - lasting relationships — formed with a serendipitous boost from a Hawaiian vacation community.

Through its more than 9,800 retail locations, more than 1,100 walk - in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 94 million plan members, a dedicated senior pharmacy care business serving more than one million patients per year, expanding specialty pharmacy services, and a leading stand - alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways.

Because of the tight credit market, business plans are being more closely scrutinized than ever and banks are looking for specifics before looking at Small Business Administration - backed loans or community bank loans.

The search company is now raising the ante, with plans announced for five more communities.

We plan to build more tools to empower community leaders like Monis to run and grow their groups the way they'd like, similar to what we've done with Pages.

Nicholas Pinter, a University of California, Davis, geoscientist who studies flood risk and water management, said that Florida is well - situated to build more wisely after this disaster because it already has a statewide post-disaster redevelopment plan and requires coastal communities to have their own.

«We don't know specific plans for Minecraft's future yet but we know that everyone involved wants the community to grow and become even more amazing then it's ever been,» Hill wrote.

He argues that everyone uses money for different purposes — from facilitating adventure to serving their community to supporting their family — yet most financial planning assumes clients have one of two possible goals: preparing for retirement or accumulating more possessions.

Starbucks has dedicated a dozen Military Family Stores, with more planned for the months ahead, to support military communities and local non-profit organizations that help veterans and their families.

Chipotle plans to host another call with the investment community to lay out more of its strategy sometime before it reports second - quarter results.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Where as my time in the startup community taught me to find my niche, find the people who suffer from that pain, listen to what potential customers are saying rather then convince the customer my way is right, find the people who want to join my cause, «volunteer management», how to deal with failure both emotional and rationally how to listen to «advice» and seperate the wheat from the chaff quicker (e.g. become more coachable) and be more willing to re-invent the plan.

«The living wage can be achieved by employers paying more wages or by policy interventions that reduce expenses for people,» he said, adding a community child care plan similar to Quebec's could help further reduce the living wage by $ 3.22 an hour, making it more affordable for employers.

TORONTO — The public will have to wait until late July to see «initial sketches» of a plan for a proposed high - tech community in the city, while a more detailed proposal is set to be released in October, Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto said Thursday at a consultation meeting that offered scant new information.

The Canadian Labour Congress is hosting town hall meetings in more than 25 communities across the country to address the need for a universal prescription drug plan that covers all Canadians, regardless of their age, income, or where they work or live.

It appears that the PCs are both understating the condition of disrepair of hospitals and in some cases, using their power to move projects up the priority list in order to benefit the political interests of PC caucus members at the expense of the health of those living in more needy communities» said Notley In a written response to a request from NDP Leader Rachel Notley, the Auditor General has committed to an audit of the government's capital planning process.

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Pope Francis is planning to invite heads of churches and Christian communities from the Middle East to... More

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

But theology's plan for «greening» America and the rest of the earth by play and make - believe signaled little more than its utter estrangement from any coherent community of language and thought.

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.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

The same sum of money can accomplish more if its use is planned with a shared sense of the diverse needs of the community.

Regional communities will be the big losers if a planned container deposit tax is introduced, with more than three million Victorian households finding it difficult to travel to a remote deposit centre for a partial refund on their drink containers.

Alternative plans to improve recycling rates being proposed by industry are 28 times less expensive and include significant funding to community groups and local governments to clean up litter hot spots, and more importantly, keep them clean into the future.

After more than a decade of community and political debate, the NSW government is planning to introduce a container deposit scheme, in which a refundable deposit, probably 10 cents, would be added to the cost of every drink bottle and can.

The plan may also include efforts in parts of the world where ingredients are sourced — like Indonesia, a huge source of palm oil for processed food manufacturers — such as providing communities with technology and resources to harvest and utilize local foods more efficiently.

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).

Raise Your Hand's director Wendy Katten, who assembled the coalition of 16 parent and community groups to oppose Emanuel's initial 7 1/2 hour school day proposal, said that while the mayor shortened his proposal to 7 hours the group plans to keep pressing for more arts, music and foreign language programs...

The four concept plans suggest creating a more community - oriented area that may include building a playground, boat launch and shelter, nature trails, a farmers» market and expanded parking, among other things.

«I've watched Lisle grow to where it is today, and I believe I will get as much or more as I plan to give this community and in my working with the board,» Cripe said.

PALATINE — A new master plan presented this week to the Salt Creek Rural Park District calls for a second deck at a golf course driving range, handicapped accessibility at two parks, a community park with an indoor fitness center and more activities for senior citizens.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

Although plans for the project are preliminary, officials said it could help change the perception of Wheeling from a blue collar, entry - level community to that of a more upscale town better able to compete with neighboring Arlington Heights and Buffalo Grove.

I plan on teaching some classes and getting more involved in my local community.

Park District Director Bill McCollum said a forum scheduled for Thursday at Lions Community Center, 1 W. Manor Drive, will outline the latest plans for a building that would give the Park District more space for a growing population.

With the newly redesigned Kmart Playdate Place community, parents will have even more resources at their fingertips to help them perfect the play date — moms and dads will never have to plan another play date alone.

As has been chronicled by nutrition, hunger, medical, national security, education and community organizations across the country, the bill is harmful to children's health, heaps administrative costs on schools, and plans to bury parents in more bureaucratic red tape, all while subsidizing well - off children at the expense of our less fortunate kids who need help.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

«Baroness Smith of Basildon to move that this House regrets that Her Majesty's Government's plans for the introduction of the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2014 do not include provisions for a 12 - month review of the impact of the reclassification of khat in view of the highly unusual community focus of its use, for putting a detailed policing strategy in place before a ban takes effect, or for a health strategy to prevent a transfer of addiction to other substances; and do not commit the Department for International Development to do more work with the government of Kenya to alleviate the effect of the reclassification on the Kenyan economy.»

Now more than ever, communities, businesses and public services need confidence in our long - term planning and this can only be achieved through open, transparent decision - making.

De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.

Stay tuned, Colin Delany (editor of Epolitics.com) and I are planning to do a webinar in a few weeks with more tips about things you can do to educate your community to help you maximize your reach on Facebook.

The NYC DOT unveiled a plan that would make all 13 Harlem River crossings more welcoming to cyclists and pedestrians in an effort to strengthen ties between historically underserved communities in northern Manhattan and the Bronx.

Another report from the Community Service Society issued last year found that far more low - income residents are poised to gain from a congestion pricing plan that funds mass transit.