Sentences with phrase «regional planning projects»

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The Phase One plan would leverage funding from the federal and provincial governments while building momentum towards negotiations with senior levels of government for the critical regional projects included in Phase Two and Phase Three.

Further modification to the plans, involving a daylighted creek channel and wildlife access along with the creek flow under 98th ave as part of the project would allow the project to have a positive impact on the natural environment, enhance regional biodiversity, and allow for the re-establishment of an important historical attribute of the City of Edmonton.

According to Park District Board President Kathryn Graham, the project first got under way in 1972 as part of a regional flood control plan.

The projects — some already in various phases of engineering, others in early planning — could help boost Orland Park's status as regional retail mecca and connect the village with its neighbors, notably in Homer Glen.

On the contrary, regional identities in the North of England could be mobilised as part of an inclusive political project that seeks to nurture shared civic and democratic values and bonds — a plan that «speaks to the people» and aims at actively involve them in the construction of a better future for their region.

Is an effort by Suffolk County to tie funding for certain projects to attendance at a quarterly regional planning meeting an effort to get everyone on the same page, or strong arming by big government?

ALBANY — The state's mayors are asking for a greater slice of the state's $ 5.4 billion cash windfall, arguing that Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to dole it out for «transformative» regional projects ignores basic needs that piled up during the Great Recession.

The complete North Country regional plan includes 70 projects totaling $ 103.2 million in state support.

It's an important point, because the apparent rift over the Inner Harbor development project has raised questions about the relations between the two offices, which will be critical to the future of Central New York — public discussions about different possible regional government arrangements are on the horizon, via the upcoming Consensus report and the fact that a plan to consider alternative governing structures was embedded in the recent $ 500 million aid package from the state.

«SUNY Poly's narrowly focused on some very high - profile tech projects, but for someone to say economic development, broadly speaking, has been turned over to to someone at SUNY Poly is just incorrect,» Mr. Zemsky said, citing the governor's efforts to involve regional officials in economic planning and to spread state funds across thousands of smaller economic development projects.

Funding which the city proposed for expanding The Queensbury Hotel, establishing a Glens Falls film commission, constructing a catwalk at Charles R. Wood Theater and projection equipment at facilities that host the Adirondack Film Festival were not specifically approved as «winning projects,» but might qualify for funding under other broad categories in the plan, and city also can seek funding in the next round of regular state regional economic development grants, Bartholomew said.

The study is being conducted through the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, a regional transportation planning organization mandated by the federal government that identifies, plans and seeks federal funding for such projects.

That's just a sample of the hundreds of projects funded by one of Cuomo's signature economic development initiatives, a system of 10 regional councils that develop plans based on regional strengths and compete for state funding — more than $ 4 billion so far.

The Cuomo - created set of regional economic development councils — which submit plans for state funding for various projects, some of which is awarded competitively — will develop the plans.

The projects will be rated based on certain criteria, including economic benefits for local businesses, adherence to regional economic development plans and improved operational efficiency, according to the release.

«The proposed pipeline threatens important resources of regional and statewide concern including... state regulated wetlands, the Ramapo River Watershed, the Karst Aquifer Region (which is) a priority project designated in the NYS Open Space Conservation Plan,» Rosendale officials wrote.

Each proposal is measured against several metrics, including the number of jobs to be created and how the project aligns with the regional council's five - year strategic plan, he said.

On Tuesday, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos urged Judith Enck, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to drastically beef up her plans to study remaining PCB toxicity levels in the river in the aftermath of a six - year dredging project by General Electric Co..

The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council plans to make a proposal detailing how $ 500 million from the state could be invested in regional projects, programs, and initiatives.

Among the items in the state's initial application that federal officials rejected as «unfundable» are capital investment, rent subsidies for high - needs patients with mental and physical health issues, regional planning grants, evaluation projects and information technology.

He panned Cuomo's economic development strategy and one of his signature initiatives, the regional councils, that develop plans for investing millions of state funds to support projects across New York.

Shafran said regional technical factors could keep a project from getting funding, even it was part of a winning plan.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

However, the project isn't moving as fast as hoped for multiple reasons — Good Earth Power blames slow progress on issues like bad weather and a regional dearth of forest industry infrastructure like trucking capacity, but others are skeptical of the company's overall business plan.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

Ahead of the meetings, each regional team sent the pro bono statisticians information about one of their projects, including the current monitoring and evaluation plan.

The role of these regional policies has been crucial, since they have been supporting the endowment of resources and ICT infrastructure in schools, plans for teacher training, the production of content and digital materials, and the promotion of pedagogical innovation projects.

-- The Support / Volunteer staff — recruited as need by the National Bureau, it assists the Secretary General in its functions of daily management of the association, planning, implementation and monitoring of the projects, etc. — The Regional Branches — created as need by the National Bureau, they ensure the functioning of the association at the regional level.

To get it right, there are a variety of key issues that you need to consider, including urban and regional planning issues, master planning and interior design, costings and finance, procurement and project management, and then occupancy and beyond.

Successful proposals will contain quantifiable system performance objectives and projected benefits, use innovative technologies and strategies, include a plan to leverage and optimize existing local and regional advanced transportation technology investments, and include a plan for long - term operation and maintenance of the deployed technologies.

A regional expressway authority planning long - range transit projects makes almost as much sense as Lynx planning the future needs for expressways in Central Florida.

Passionate about resiliency, her projects have included master planning ecotourism infrastructure in Central and South America, regional sustainable economic policy modeling and implementation, research and evidence - based sustainable land reclamation in sub-Saharan Africa, therapeutic landscapes, and sustainable revitalization of fragmented urban cores.

This plan, referred to hereafter as the «PES - Carbon Program», is an example of how regional and project - level coordination can look in practice.

Enbridge, meanwhile, announced it will spend $ 200 million on a new pipeline to connect Athabasca Oil Corp's planned Hangingstone oil sands project in northern Alberta to its regional pipeline network.

«Transmission owners should retain their traditional authority to consider resilience in transmission planning for local projects as well as planning on the distribution grid, while the RTOs must explicitly add resilience considerations to their regional transmission planning and market design,»

«Transmission owners should retain their traditional authority to consider resilience in transmission planning for local projects as well as planning on the distribution grid, while the RTOs must explicitly add resilience considerations to their regional transmission planning and market design,» Exelon wrote.

The second track involves the planning needed to scale the various regional projects into an integrated, global program.

The Plan identifies three phases implementation: I focused on establishing the Framework's infrastructure and initiating and facilitating demonstration projects in the initial priority areas; II is the development phase, focusing on the core regional and national mechanisms for climate services; and III, the expansion and continuation phase, during which maintenance and sustainability of institutional mechanisms will be emphasized.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Teams shall conduct applied regional climate research and projects to address the needs of local and regional decisionmakers for information and tools to develop adaptation and response plans to climate variability and change.

A cross section of current projects include an experimental theatre complex in La Jolla, a School of Architecture in Texas, a large regional park in Los Angeles, a memorial for the Los Angeles Fire department, a large Stupa in Santa Cruz, California, the transformation of a seventy acre industrial site in Louisville, Kentucky into a central part of the city, and the development and planning of the Tempe Center site.

Specifically, the ruling blocks a financing plan for a $ 3 billion regional gas pipeline, the Access Northeast pipeline project, which was intended to expand the existing Algonquin gas pipeline in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

These include: the Intelligent Grid project for CSIRO, undertaking a case study of the NSW electricity supply to 2020 and developing the first iteration of the Details and Cost of Distributed Energy model (DCODE); employment modelling of global and regional low carbon energy scenarios; a range of distributed energy options research projects such as the Parkes Distributed Energy Plan; and most recently a study of the potential network benefits of Concentrating Solar Power, for which Jay was lead researcher.

The two - day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice / ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large - scale arctic climate modeling (ice - ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and / or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications.

Government incentives and a new regional master plan are in place, contracts are being signed and a first batch of projects has already materialized.

Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, «Going Green,» Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management.

To help regional stakeholders in British Columbia plan for projected changes to climate, PCIC, with the support of the BC Ministry of Forestry, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, has put together a set of climate summaries for the eight resource regions of BC.

Include sound valuation and management of ecosystem services in all regional planning decisions and in poverty reduction strategies, e.g., Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia and Río Bravo Carbon Sequestration Pilot Project in Belize.

How to avoid dogfights over project proposals by doing bigger - picture assessments at the strategic level, e.g., by reviewing government plans, policies and proposals, and then linking strategic, regional and project - level assessment outcomes.