Sentences with phrase «create land banks»

The state Legislature allowed communities to create land banks, but has so far not funded them.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a law allowing municipalities to create land banks to convert vacant properties into uses that support community revitalization.

It would create a land bank to allow communities in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve to accomplish small projects without the need to amend the state constitution.

It would create a land bank of 250 acres and allow withdrawals of small amounts of land to fix bridges and lay cable lines for internet access.

The New York State Senate has passed a measure that would create a land bank for the Adirondack and Catskills.

The third proposal would create a land bank for development in the Catskills and Adirondack Park.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, suggested creating a land bank in his housing plan, and the City Council already has pending legislation on it.

PLATTSBURGH — Voters in November will decide if the state should create a land bank to aid municipalities with routine infrastructure and communications projects on state land.

He, along with a slew of other environmental and civic organizations, backed the legislation to create a land bank that was passed by lawmakers at the end of their session.

When voters went the polls earlier this week, they had the choice to create a land bank for the Adirondacks and the Catskills.

He backs amendments also on the ballot next month that would create a land bank for development in the Adirondacks and an amendment that would strip the pensions of officials convicted of a felony /

A constitutional amendment that would create a land bank for public development within the Adirondack State Park and Catskills has received the endorsement of Republican and Democratic former elected officials.

Adirondack and Catskills communities are also holding their breath for an amendment that would create a land bank of sorts for needed infrastructure projects such as road, water and sewer.

I take great pride in the role I played creating the Land Bank.

Creating a land bank with the city, which is flipping tax delinquent properties to taxpaying owners.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

A plurality of likely voters (46 percent) support Proposal 3, which would create a land bank to allow for certain develompent in the Adirondacks and Catskills.

The City of Rosario (Argentina) is providing a tax reduction to land owners that do lease out their land to urban producers (levying municipal taxes on land laying idle might be a complementary measure) and created a Land Bank which brings those in need of agricultural land in contact with landowners in need of temporary or permanent users.

Not exact matches

This turns the rental value of land — value created by society and public infrastructure investment — into a flow of interest to the banks.

So economic analysis is trivialized if it only takes into account direct production costs reducible to labor, not taxes or «economic rent» as an element of price with no counterpart in technologically necessary production costs — land rent, monopoly rent (including bank credit - creating privileges), interest charges and kindred transfer payments to rentiers.

What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

-- Goethe What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

BDO Capital & Investment led four banks in advising SM Prime Land Holdings of Manila on a $ 6.1 billion merger that created one of Southeast Asia's largest single landowners last October.

Governments were expected to tax away land rent and natural resource rent, regulate monopolies to bring prices in line with actual cost value, and create basic infrastructure with money created by their own treasury or central bank.

The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

The Legislature passed a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a 250 - acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill parks, decreasing the time it takes to get smaller projects on state Forest Preserve land approved.

The NY Attorney General's Office awarded the Land Bank $ 4.5 million for renovations to be sold to create affordable, owner - occupied housing.

«For a moment I was a little afraid, because there was a serious monsoon of efforts to create community gardens and green spaces, none of which generate any revenue,» said Bey, referring to dozens of community gardens the land bank has established throughout the city.

The downtown should contain or articulate how it can create policies that enhance quality of life, including the use of local land banks, modern zoning codes, complete streets plans, or transit - oriented development.

The new law will allow cities and counties to create and administer land banks to convert vacant, abandoned or tax - delinquent properties into productive use.

Governor Cuomo's Regional Councils will also benefit from the creation of land banks because it will create an inventory of land that the councils can use when developing their plans.

Proposition Three creates a 250 - acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill forever wild preserves.

The other would create a forest preserve land bank.

Sponsored by North County Republican Sen. Betty Little and Democratic Assemblyman Steve Englebright, who heads their environmental committee, the measure will create a 250 - acre land bank that can be tapped for utility lines and bike paths along existing highway rights - of - way.

The mayor himself proposed establishing a city land bank while running for office in 2013, and Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres and Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander have sponsored legislation to create one.

Prop. 3 would create a 250 - acre land bank for the Adirondack and Catskill preserves, and also allow bike paths, sewer lines, and utility lines within the width of highways on preserve land.

Remember to look on the back of your ballot for three proposals: Whether to hold a constitutional convention, a constitutional amendment that would strip state officers of their pensions if convicted of a felony and an amendment that would create a 250 - acre land bank in forest preserve lands.

The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

There are two such amendments on the ballot this year — one to strip corrupt elected officials of their pensions and another to create a state land bank.

I appreciate the council's efforts to reduce the budget deficit and hire more police, but defunding the Land Bank would actually create a revenue shortfall for the city and make our neighborhoods less safe.

This new land bank, called the Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation, will soon create a one - stop - shop for dealing with distressed propertland bank, called the Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation, will soon create a one - stop - shop for dealing with distressed propertLand Improvement Corporation, will soon create a one - stop - shop for dealing with distressed properties.

This week the state gave the OK for Syracuse and Onondaga County to create one of the first five «land banks» in New York State.

The Land Bank Board of Directors held its first meeting Wednesday morning since it was created earlier this year.

• Voters appeared ready to approve a referendum that would allow the state to create a 250 - acre land bank in the Adirondacks and the Catskills while giving local communities more flexibility in making infrastructure improvements.

The artist was commissioned to create a site - specific installation for Bank BNP Paribas in London in 1997; a 13 - metre mural for the Tate Triennial in 2003; a wall painting for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick University; and most notably, a 48 - metre long painting for Southwark Council and Land Securities in 2006.

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«The World Bank, northern countries and big international NGOs, under the eyes of the United Nations, are creating carbon cowboys that trample over the rights of indigenous peoples, our land and our forests,» said Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an international organizational working with indigenous peoples of the world.

I like that you cite «submission» as the duty of conservatives to the massive climate godzilla that has been created and sustained via politicians diverting taxpayer money, hedge funds, investment banks, and organized crime manipulating carbon trading and land theft over something that isn't even about climate according to 3 top UN climate officials.

Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for adaptation to climate change, including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the local land races and their wild relatives) and associated local traditional knowledge.»

The almost total lack of financing for land purchases by banks and institutional lenders has created some of the best buying opportunities on commercial land in a generation.