Sentences with phrase «more city land»

Public reception has been mixed for Columbia's request to use more city land in order to build their new sports complex at Baker Field near Inwood Hill Park.

Not exact matches

The moment I land in Tallinn, my phone pings with the city's free Wi - Fi network, which rolled out more than 15 years ago.

You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

In more compact cities (such as many in California, for example) where land is limited, prices go through the roof thanks to supply and demand.

Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.»

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

15Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

I'll probably share more details later, but the downtown area is super cute, there are bike paths covering nearly every inch of the city, and thanks to the surrounding farm lands they have a year round Farmer's market.

Last week, we watched La La Land which was fun and a little sad and rather Bollywoody with dancing and singing, bright colours, a good dose of romance and the beautiful City of Stars which plays in the movie atleast 20 times and I could have listened to it 10 more times.

The collapse of the tailings dam of MMC has destroyed more than 1,000 hectares of rice lands in Sipalay City and cases of heavy metal poisoning among the populace.

That's not so far - fetched if you remember that Santa Fe was established by Don Juan Oñate as the capital city of the northern Provence of New Spain (old Mexico) more than two decades before pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

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Despite United's attempts — City remain firm favourites to land Sanchez — with a January deal now looking more, and more likely.

The last cycle didn't work and so we have entered a new one but in a better financial situation, with a more experienced and mature squad, with some English talent that won't be as easily lured to lands abroad and as always some exciting talent (evidenced Wednesday versus Manchester City).

As part of a $ 213 million capital improvements budget unveiled Wednesday evening, park officials plan to buy more than 20 acres of land for parks across the city.

The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

The opponents of the proposal asked why the city couldn't do more with the open land it owns and work with the schools to provide programs.

Chicago has more field houses than any other parks system, even though it has less park land per capita than most other cities.

Under the agreement, only «major» work to the land that affect 10 percent or more of the property would warrant city approval.

The Park District hopes to obtain more land to build another community park in the southern part of the city, Brissa said.

Land banks» preventive maintenance reduces cities» costs of code enforcement, lawn - mowing and board - ups, and court - ordered demolitions and contributes more to the stabilization of property values than those reactive interventions.

This brought more vacationers from the city, who were attracted to the scenic lands and the inexpensive hotels, inns, and summer houses.

While the Kingsbridge Armory battle centered on wages at one project, the wage bill seeks to expand the debate to developments across the city that receive public subsidies worth more than $ 100,000, whether in discounted land sales, tax credits or other incentives.

If the mayor and city council approve a deal with COR, the company will pay about $ 2.8 million for 28 acres of former state land around the harbor to erect apartment buildings, a satellite college campus, a hotel, office buildings, townhouses, shops and more.

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation announced plans to build the mixed - use development Sea View Healthy Community with medical, retail, residential and community spaces on more than 90 - acres of land at the former Sea View Hospital.

«I'm pleased to share the Land Bank's success with the Councilors and continue to discuss operational improvements,» Wright said, «The Land Bank is providing a valuable public service at a scale previously not attempted in Syracuse — maintaining abandoned properties more cost effectively than the City has been able to and returning them to productive use at a faster rate than was previously possible.

The plaza payments were established through a state public lands law that allows any city with 75,000 residents or more to seek payments from the state for property it takes off the tax rolls.

Investigators were looking into why a charter aircraft carrying Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and more than 40 others slid off the runway Thursday night while landing at LaGuardia Airport in the New York City borough of Queens.

First, the city's Land Bank demolished what was known as the Gothic Cottage, a more than 150 - year - old historic home on South Salina Street.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

Some speakers characterized the DEP deal as «another city land grab,» while others wondered why the county executive, who once described the agency as «an invading army,» wasn't paying more attention to flooding and debris issues in the Esopus Creek caused in part by his new DEP ally.

This strategy seems poised to be even more ineffective in the capital than it was in City Hall, where Mr. Barron's challenges to Ms. Quinn led to him being stripped of his chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee, and landed him near the bottom of the list of recipients of discretionary funds.

Instead, the city - owned lot sat empty for more than a decade, even as other developers inquired about building on the land.

The problem arises when the land bank does not benefit the city as a whole, focusing primarily on more affluent areas.

The Land Bank has accepted more than 1,200 severely tax delinquent structures from the city, the majority of which are blighting influences on the properties and neighborhoods surrounding them.

Among his top priorities were beefing up the Council's land use division, to ensure, among other things, that Council members could play a more proactive role in the administration's many proposed neighborhood rezonings across the city.

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.

The imbalance, combined with the state's more than $ 3.5 billion in tax - exempt land, places a disproportionate burden on property taxpayers and an unsustainable way to fund city services.

The house is on city land, but it's been his family's for more than 50 years.

The funding, received through New York State's Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Initiative, will assist the City in transforming contaminated and inaccessible land into a vibrant mixed - use waterfront community featuring more than 5 acres of open space, market rate and affordable rental housing, and retail.

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.

The project is getting more than $ 200 million in city money for land acquisition and infrastructure repairs, plus tax exemptions and city - owned property at no cost.