Sentences with phrase «livable neighborhood»

The organization that lobbied for years to make the city adopt new hiring laws has not taken a position on the local company preference, said Matt Brusky, director of Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods, a project of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

The specifics hadn't been worked out yet — this was all theoretical — but players could focus their efforts on cleaning up specific parts of town as a community and turn crime - ridden places into livable neighborhoods.

It also delivers three dozen first steps around the themes of environmental justice, overpopulation, rebound effects, energy economics, degrowth, taxes, bicycling, livable neighborhoods, and energy conservation.

«REALTORS ® always have been active in their local communities, but these finalists have gone to extraordinary lengths to try to create safe, affordable, livable neighborhoods,» said Jamie Gorelick, vice chair of Fannie Mae.

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«I'm running to fight income inequality and climate change and to keep neighborhoods affordable and livable.

«Many neighborhoods have a significantly higher density of licensed premises than anywhere else in New York State, and a New York City resident on the SLA would help inform the regulations of the SLA within NYC so we can continue to promote livable communities,» Glick said.

As a district leader, I work with elected officials, businesses, civic groups, and non-profit organizations to make our neighborhoods livable.

He wants the neighborhoods in his district to flourish with livable streets for all, and as a father, he seeks the peace of mind that his teenage son will be able to safely ride his bicycle to the subway or Long Island Railroad.

SP: What livable streets projects from the last five years would you like to see expanded, improved upon, or implemented in other neighborhoods?

«Not only are we aiming to promote affordable housing development through changes to zoning, but we are fostering more livable, thriving neighborhoods,» City Planning chair Carl Weisbrod said.

The resulting homes will be shorter and wider, making them more appropriate to the character of the surrounding neighborhoods and more livable for the homeowners.

But longtime residents expressed anger that only now that more white people have moved to the neighborhood is it considered more livable.

Displaced citizens who wish to return to New Orleans should be afforded the opportunity to return to healthy, livable, safe, and secure neighborhoods of choice.

Homes, schools, public buildings, and neighborhoods should be designed and built or rebuilt to serve as livable refuges in the event of crisis or breakdown of energy, water, and sewer systems.

Although less than 7 percent of Arlington's land area is high - density development, that area generates 70 percent of the county tax base, according to Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community, produced by the Local Government Commission, a nonprofit group dedicated to creating livable communities.

If you've ever noticed how a few benches make a public square more inviting or how a community garden makes a neighborhood feel more livable, then you've appreciated placemaking.

In this talk, Dr. Rodney Harrell, Director, Livable Communities, AARP Public Policy Institute, examines the concept and methodology of the Livability Index and discusses its application in a ranking of neighborhoods.

They aren't livable and they aren't in any type of desirable neighborhood.

But as more and more people have made their home in Center City, we've had to gently shove some of them past the traditional boundaries, which means even the once - dicey «fringe neighborhoods» just beyond the grid are now perfectly livable.