Sentences with phrase «first city in»

Tucson is the FIRST City in the United States to receive this honor.

Richmond, Calif., city officials approved a plan this week to become the first city in the nation to use their powers of eminent domain to...

Richmond, Calif., city officials approved a plan this week to become the first city in the nation to use their powers of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages.

Philadelphia will be the first city in the country to ban private - sector employers from asking job applicants about their salary history.

Berkeley would become the first city in the US to hold an initial coin offering (ICO)-- a type of crowdfunding campaign that's become popular in the past year.

Buenos Aires is thus the first city in Latin America to do so.

Slovenia's fourth largest municipality, Kranj, will soon become the first city in the world to boast a monument dedicated to the famous cryptocurrency.

Summerville takes its flora seriously; in 1847 it became the first city in the U.S. to pass a law against cutting trees over a certain size.

Aurora, Illinois was the first city in the nation to light itself up with electric lights.

Aurora is known as the «city of lights» since it was the first city in the United States to use electric lights for lighting all the city streets.

Moore is the first city in the United States to adopt mandatory tornado - related building codes that far exceeded national standards.

As of today, some companies are offering new dads paid time off ranging from a few days to a few weeks, while San Francisco became the first city in the United States to approve six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents — including same - sex couples, who either bear or adopt a child.

In addition, with adoption of the ordinance, Pittsburgh became the first city in the U.S. to recognize legally binding rights of nature.

Did you know that Tel Aviv was the first city in the world where builders lifted an entire house (now Sotheby's auction house) on Shadal Street, and suspended it, while they dug out underground parking lots as part of a development deal to preserve an historical building in exchange for development rights?

Sacramento is the first city in California to participate in the program and it's in part due to the tenacity of city officials in making sure this partnership came together.

Detroit is not the first city in America to go bankrupt and it won't be the last, as cities dump obligations and debts they can no longer afford to service, because everyone is earning barely the minimum wage and shopping at the big box stores outside the city limits.

See also: San Francisco is the First City in the U.S. to Count Its Parking Spaces

Jersey City will be the first city in the region to offer joint memberships with New York City's Citi Bike program Jersey City has selected Alta Bicycle Share (ABS) to plan, implement and operate its bikeshare system.

Prompted by passionate advocates, Seattle recently became the first city in the country to break ties with a bank in part because of its funding of a fossil fuel project — the Dakota Access pipeline.

«We are the first city in the nation to actually write into its development code authorization for «tiny homes,»» the city's mayor Ashley Swearingen said.

In addition to announcing the 76West winners, Lt. Governor Hochul recognized Binghamton for being the first city in the Southern Tier designated as a Clean Energy Community by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

San Francisco was the first city in the United States to adopt a programme to streamline the regulatory process for decentralised water systems.

Western Australia's capital of Perth is said to be on the coalface of global climate change, with 2007 Australian of the Year and Climate Change Commission chairman Tim Flannery predicting in 2004 that it may become the first city in the world to become a ghost metropolis due to lack of water (BBC, Sydney Morning Herald).

Portland may become the first city in the Pacific Northwest to require all owners of old brick buildings to make earthquake safety upgrades.

In June 2017, we helped persuade the City of Cape Town to become the first city in an African or developing country to divest.

In August 2008, the District of Columbia became the first city in North America to launch a bikesharing system.

Cordoba became the first city in Argentina to require green roofs in July.

Here's something that makes Palo Alto just a little more fabulous, smug, and high - level - of - being: The town of 65,000 boasts that, since last year, it is officially the first city in America whose electricity supply is 100 percent carbon - neutral.

Officials here want this Boston suburb to become the first city in the United States to systematically track people's happiness.

Montreal is not the first city in North America to do this.

Glasgow will now be the first city in Scotland to host the controversial [pounds sterling] 25,000 prize - giving, previously won by artists such as Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry and Martin Creed.

The capital of Sichuan Province in southwest China, Chengdu was the the first city in Asia to have its cuisine honoured by Unesco.

I've spent a fair amount of time in Spain and Madrid was the first city in the country I visited.

Located in the heart of the city, the park is more than 30 acres and is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in history to suffer a nuclear attack.

Established during the 16th century on Inca ruins, Quito became the first city in the world to be declared by UNESCO a cultural heritage for the humanity in 1978.

«The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi, was the first official debut of bespoke St. Regis hospitality in the region, making Abu Dhabi the first city in the Middle East to be host to its rich heritage, and I feel especially attached to it, having worked here since the hotel was still under construction,» said Fadel.

On March 13, 2017, Roseville became the first city in Minnesota to pass a humane pet store ordinance.

But Sunrise is the first city in Broward County to be sued over it.

Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia has become the first city in Canada to ban the sale of puppies by pet stores.

On March 13, 2017, the City of Roseville became the first city in Minnesota to pass a humane pet store ordinance that bans pet stores from selling dogs and cats obtained from commercial breeding facilities and promotes partnering with local animal rescues and shelters to host adoption events.

San Francisco isn't the first city in the United States to enact such a law.

In September 2017, two more major cities banned the use of wild animals in circuses and traveling shows: A unanimous vote made Portland the first city in Maine to pass this legislation, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, prohibited the use of wild and exotic animal acts.

The ordinance makes Austin the first city in Texas to ban the sale of all dogs and cats at retail establishments and one of only a handful of cities in the nation to close off a primary channel for the sale of dogs and cats produced in cruel puppy and kitten mills.

Conversely, the city of Lawton, with an average income below the state average and a poverty level above the state average, has had in - house spay / neuter for all animals for four years, was the first city in Oklahoma to ban the chaining of dogs and has the most stringent spay / neuter ordinance in our state, an ordinance that is rigorously enforced.

Pittsburgh is the first city in the state to propose the student loan program.

It's the first city in the top 10 to have more violent crime occurrences per 1,000 people than the U.S. median, but at only +3 %, it scores better than most U.S. cities including many of those on this list.

The first city in America to put in an entirely electric street light system, Aurora has always been on the forefront of innovation and self - improvement.

Aurora, one of the largest cities in Illinois, is known as The City of Lights, a nickname that was earned by being the first city in the country to have all electric street lights.

Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan — home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply.

In 2011, Somerville, Massachusetts became the first city in the USA to track happiness when it added the question, «How happy do you feel right now?»