Sentences with phrase «safety for city residents»

Rochester Animal Services (RAS) is a municipal animal care and control agency that is dedicated to improving the quality of life and safety for city residents and their animals, the promotion of responsible pet ownership, and the reduction of animal overpopulation to reduce animal suffering and euthanasia.

Not exact matches

Cuomo as well as environmentalists and nearby residents have said for years they want to close the nuclear plant, which is less than 40 miles from New York City, for safety reasons.

After hosting a meeting between protesters and residents Friday afternoon, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin said she is losing faith that the protesters will be able to address residents» concerns about noise, garbage and safety in Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street has been camped out for the past month.

The East 91st Street project — which residents fear will bring bringing vermin, noise and a host of health and traffic - safety problems to the area — was recently propelled from being a primarily neighborhood controversy to a top talking point both for mayoral contenders and pols across the city.

«The city has proposed a comprehensive plan to improve the health and safety of thousands of NYCHA residents, and the construction was set to begin next month,» said Ishanee Parikh, a spokeswoman for de Blasio.

A group of activists, residents and politicians also plans to march around Park Slope on Monday night to call for safety improvements to all streets in the city after three children were killed by drivers in the borough so far this year.

For many residents, the worst noise came not from the blasts themselves, but from the blowing of the safety horns which is required by the New York City Fire Department.

Yesterday, the City Council's General Welfare Committee voted to allow the legislative body to join the lawsuit filed by the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, which has long argued that the facility is too large and would pose safety issues for residents.

Lamps hanging from the ceilings in Roma — a part of the city hard hit in 1985 — spun in slow circles long after residents had poured into the streets for safety.

An assessment or tax of some form on each resident of NYC (all benefit from the work, because all benefit from safety, even if they're not Con Ed customers) of ten dollars a month would see the work completed and paid for in full with zero debt and zero city financing within nine years.

West Valley City grant programs are for eligible West Valley City residents looking for down payment assistance on a first - time home purchase; low - interest loans for safety and code - related home and mobile home improvement projects; and emergency repair and minor maintenance projects.

In a press conference in September, Houston mayor Annise Parker expressed her gratitude to Natural Pawz for providing these tools, which she hoped would allow the city and residents to work together to improve animal safety.

To provide a public safety service to both the human and animal residents of the City of Edmond and to find great homes for great unwanted animals.

Ahmedabad, India, leads the pack as cities in developing nations race ahead of their richer counterparts in adopting eco-friendly transit solutions, according to the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which last week gave the western Indian city its 2010 Sustainable Transport Award.The award has been given out since 2005 to a city that best «uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse [gas] and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.»

Is the city actually looking out for its residents and trying to ensure their safety from the nuisance that a burned - out apartment building can be?

In 2008, city council filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, citing overblown salaries for public safety workers, policemen and firefighters; but in 2012 a city - wide participatory budget program, allowing city residents and business owners to discuss budget allocations and city projects.

Ms. Senft was the co-founder of The Safe Haven Network: a church, police, school, and community safety initiative for children in Baltimore City which has provided safe shelters before and after school for children and conflict intervention training and safety skills to community residents and school officials since from 1993 to 2013.

For example, the City of Crestwood, a municipality within St. Louis County, is currently reviewing an ordinance that would prohibit short - term property rentals because, according to the Crestwood City Administrator, the City wants «stable residents living in the community, adding to the quality of life here, walking on the streets, obviously there's a safety concern there, there's a property value concern.»