Sentences with phrase «for city regulation»

Uber GM Josh Mohrer insisted the company wasn't seeking an end - round for city regulation.

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San Francisco city officials have quickly opted for regulation, voting to require scooter companies to obtain a permit before operating in the city.
Calls to cut regulation and red tape are often the first item of business for those promoting developments in the world's major cities, but not Perth's Adrian Fini, who sees things very differently.
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The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.
There's also Arcade City, which skirts the new regulations (at least, for now) by allowing drivers to negotiate their own rates, and is planning an app based on the Ethereum blockchain.
A socially progressive town, it has few chain stores for a city of its size, due to local regulations intended to support small and local businesses.
Like several of the cities in the top 10, Nashville has its work cut out for it building a strong networking and training program for small businesses, but the home of country music has seen a boost in job growth and business regulations since 2014.
Austin's city council is scheduled to revisit ride - hailing regulations on February 11, according to a spokesman for the mayor.
Last month, the city council approved a separate set of regulations that requires that drivers display the companies they work for in their cars (such as Lyft's pink mustache), mentions fingerprinting as part of the background check requirements, and outlines restricted areas at the airport and during large festivals.
The good news, Ms. Schuetz said, is that the steps cities should be taking to prepare for Amazon are largely the steps they should be taking anyway, like improving transit systems and easing regulations that make it hard to build in the places people want to live.
Plans developed for each building are submitted to the City for review to verify compliance with all local and State adopted codes and regulations.
Bill 21 sets the ground for the creation of Big City Charters in the Act's regulations, as advocated for by Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi.
On Wednesday evening the Arcata City Council discussed introducing updated regulations on cannabis sales to allow for retail sales in most commercial districts of the cCity Council discussed introducing updated regulations on cannabis sales to allow for retail sales in most commercial districts of the citycity.
Housing is becoming increasingly expensive to build due to government fees and regulations on building in most cities, and government programs merely subsidize this process at a cost to the taxpayers; and rent control has been a disaster because that immediately kills off any new construction and reduces the incentive for land owners and landlords to maintain their property because their income is fixed.
Having to go the the library to look up phone numbers (remember all those big phone books for each city taking over a whole section of the library) and then making one long distance call after the other to find out rules and regulations for shipping plants, seems so time consuming today.
Man City would go on to win the match in regulation, but the announcers of the game called it a «bittersweet victory» for the Citizens after losing on of their best scoring threats.
But it would make sense in a way for City, who badly need to freshen up their aging squad as well as needing more home grown players to help them comply with the UEFA regulations for the Champions League.
City agreed to sell Negredo to Valencia for 25m & buy Falcao from Monaco for 60m but the FFP regulations are getting in the way.
City and NYCFC are under the same ownership, and Wenger's concerns are that loans between the various clubs (as well as NYCFC, City also control Melbourne City in Australia and Yokohama F Marinos in Japan) might be used a method for evading Financial Fair Play regulations.
Manchester City were punished last season for breaking the FFP rules but the regulations were relaxed recently after pressure from some of Europe's biggest clubs.
Although our aggregate, FFP - adjusted losses are outside the $ 45m required, the transitional relief for wages paid on contracts signed prior to June 2010 (which is # 80m in City's case) will see us escape any sanction because that's what it says in Annex XI of the FFP regulations.
The plans for UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations sped up Manchester City's plans to join the Champions League, forcing them into splashing huge amounts of cash to break in quickly, but their accelerated ascension to the European elite hasn't helped them now they are in the inner circle.
Manchester City, heavily criticised for their failure to keep in line with Financial Fair Play regulations, have also had their fair share of trials and tribulations.
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Now, de Blasio faces a Republican - led Senate in year that mayoral control of city schools is up for renewal as well as rent - control regulations.
They are due to return to the Capitol on Monday, the same day rent control regulations for New York City are due to expire — a prospect that Cuomo has warned could create «chaos» should they be allowed to lapse.
«As a fiduciary of the New York City Employee Retirement System for the last 8 years, Scott has worked with his fellow trustees to grow the City's pension funds through prudent investments, improving diversification and ensuring more rigorous assessment of risks to investments such as corporate accountability and violations of environmental regulations
«[The] regulations and the procedures were very clear for year one when everything was being initiated and now, continuation seems to be less clear,» said Syracuse City schools» Chief Academic Officer Linda Mulvey.
For decades the City and State have been passing laws and creating regulations to keep
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly housing committee chairman Vito Lopez called the state's new rent - regulations enhancement, which will go into effect this year, a «Hard - Fought Victory for New York City Tenants and Working Families.»
As an Assemblyman, he fought against foreclosures, passed historic rent regulations for New York City, and helped transform empty luxury apartments into affordable homes for middle - class families.
The City will work with the state as rent regulation comes up for renewal in 2015 to prevent abuses of the vacancy and luxury decontrol provisions and capital improvement rules.
On Tuesday afternoon, a «framework» deal was reportedly reached under which rent regulations for a million New York City apartments would be renewed for four years.
The governor also continued to chide the mayor for waiting until near the end of this year's state legislative session to visit Albany and push for changes to the tax break, and for a general strengthening of the city's rent regulations, which expire next month.
In an interview with the Observer Monday afternoon, Ms. Been said that the city will try to work with building owners to help pay for energy efficiency overhauls or capital improvements in exchange for agreeing to keep rents affordable for a period of time, or even enter the units into rent regulation.
With talks on a new rent regulation bill going nowhere, the Assembly Democrats introduced a bill late Friday that would simply extend as is a host of expiring laws — including rent regulations for two years and mayoral control of city schools for three.
The day of the rally, the City Council voted to declare that a housing emergency is still in effect in New York, a move that sets the stage for renewal of rent regulations.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.
A two - year extender for mayoral control would synchronize the sunset date with another high - profile New York City concern, rent control regulations, which will expire in 2019.
Regulation levels the playing field AND provides a place to live for the middle and working class who keep this city going.
We need a program in the city of New York and its suburban communities that continues rent regulation for the same reason.»
This could spell trouble for de Blasio and others in the city when it comes to rent regulations.
The mayor previewed legislation from the City Council that would make New York City the largest in the country to have regulations regarding the cleaning and inspection of cooling towers, which are responsible for spreading the disease.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for a statewide system of regulation for such technologies, which are currently allowed in New York City.
It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another ycity schools for another year.
Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.
2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»
It would also have exempted any proposed development for that area from all city regulations except the building code.
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