Sentences with phrase «says city planners»

Aide Tomer, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution says city planners can't keep building roads to solve congestion issues.

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Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.
Hillis says her clients (typically governments, architects and city planners) simply aren't going to Facebook or Twitter to seek the underground waste containers she sells.
City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.
«It seems we've been telling clients that rates are going higher forever, advising clients to stay short duration,» said Amy Hubble, a certified financial planner with Radix Financial in Oklahoma City.
«Growing balances on your credit cards are surefire signs you are going to retire broke,» said Benjamin Brandt, a certified financial planner with Capital City Wealth Management in Bismarck, N.D.
It's important to focus on what you can do today as well as down the road, said Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner at Life and Wealth Planning in New York City.
«Certainly when it comes to investing, it's not something they're very familiar with so they're shying away from doing that,» said Lauren Lyons Cole, New York City - based certified financial planner.
Under the new plan, «There are more buildings, and more spread out than the existing large, single - structure mall pattern,» said Lisa Spadoni, principal planner for the city.
«Debt is saddling a generation, particularly the older end of this generation,» said Douglas Boneparth, a 30 - year - old certified financial planner with Life and Wealth Planning in New York City.
Planners in his city have already started using the survey to help determine where to place new bus routes — though faulty data could mean empty seats and millions of dollars wasted, he said.
«Bonds are safe investments when you compare them with stocks,» says Tim Kim, a Certified Financial Planner and analyst with Francis Financial in New York City.
The conservancy's goal, Gordon said, is to live up to the city's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in ChicCity in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chiccity planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chicago.
A range of groups representing commuters, the construction industry and transportation planners praised the proposal, saying it would reduce bottlenecks on the railroad while allowing more trains to travel from New York City to Long Island for people making the reverse commute.
At NYMTC's annual meeting at the City College of New York in Manhattan, Curran said she looked forward to collaborating with elected officials and transportation planners from around the New York City metropolitan area «to ensure a prosperous future for our entire region.»
She said she, the developer and other council members want to see the project happen, but its fate is sealed if Hammes doesn't work with city planners.
Bob Tuttle, a city planner, said, «There's a lot of work that (the developers are) doing right now, and (the Environmental Impact Statement) just isn't ready.»
Simanowitz, a father of three, Queens College graduate and former city Department of Housing planner and community liaison, said he will continue Mayersohn's legacy of dedication to constituent services if elected.
City planner Lina Velasco said that will be accomplished through «compliance and enforcement.»
The researchers say their model can be used by other cities that have good geospatial data on sunlight and tree cover if planners input the relevant crops that grow well in a particular area.
Barthelemy says the model could also come in handy for estimating traffic delays, gas consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, so that urban planners and policy makers can better understand how those different factors evolve as a city grows.
It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.
The 2017 Gothenburg test comes with the cooperation of Swedish government officials, legislators, and city planners, Coelingh said.
Carol Berger, a financial planner with Berger Wealth Management in Peachtree City, Georgia, says that too many consumers think that homeowners only need umbrella insurance if they are rich, own a business or own a particularly valuable home.
«Frankly, some people in small towns have a negative opinion of people who move there from the big citysays Lynn Biscott, a certified financial planner in Toronto and author of The Boomers Retire.
This would enable planners to concentrate on providing more opportunities for residents that «fuel and build a city to live in that same citysays Broderick.
â $ œWeâ $ ™ ve always been van people, but my wife was tired of driving something so big and cumbersome, â $ says Foster, a 48 - year - old parks planner for the City of Toronto.
City planners are even pondering a temporary Chicago - style shoreline ferris wheel as a tourist attraction — all in an effort to continue to grow this community's «fun factor» says Montemayor.
«Building habits, especially in your twenties, is so important for long - term success,» says John Deyeso, a financial planner in New York City, who works with a lot of younger people (and is 37 years old himself).
But city managers and planners say traffic is not a force of nature and must be managed in a crowding world.
They all make Vancouver just such a wonderful city to be in (helped by mountains and water and views to die for at every turn) and the video is done with Clarence's usual skill, but I had a serious epiphany at about 6:15 when planner Brent Toderian says:
«This is something that city planners, military leaders and others are going to have to pay a lot of attention to,» he said.
USA TODAY Some cities try to stem the flood in South Florida Miami's vulnerability is well known, but emergency planners say generations of political leaders have failed to invest the billions needed to keep flood - control systems up to date.
Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers, and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods, and a range of other effects on the environment, communities, and human health.
People are fighting to save it (architecture students are threatening to chain themselves to it) but the wimpy gutless excuse for a city planner Stephen Mikicich says «In the end, this is private property we're talking about, so we're really looking to encourage conservation by the tools that are available to us.»
City planner Kevin Rulkowski said, in an interview with the Detroit News: «A tomato vine on a tomato cage is just not attractive,» he said.
Not every street needs to be sticky, Toderian says, but planners should pay attention to factors that can encourage parts of towns and cities to retain their stickiness.
He is the ultimate TreeHugger planner — he understands bikes and realizes, as he says, that we have to «adjust to a new reality and change our entire tool kit when it comes to how we deal with cities
«LEED challenged people to build the greenest buildings,» Benyus said during a roundtable discussion with several architects and city planners.
«Regardless of age, there is always time to save for our future,» said Tyler Landes, a Certified Financial Planner and founder of Tandem Financial Guidance in Kansas City, Missouri.
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«These are established communities and in many cases, people in these communities were aging in place,» says Jenny Nusbaum, a planner with the city of San Jose's Planning, Building & Code Enforcement Dept. «It's not just a bunch of trailers in one setting.
Lindsey, who came to Tallahassee for graduate school and is an urban planner by trade, said the city has been quick to make progress though it had initially been slow to encourage entrepreneurs.
It's time that communities, including developers, city planners, and real estate professionals, overcome their fear of high - density housing and embrace it for the benefits it can bring, the report says.
Vast stretches of the region are wilderness, but it includes the city of South Lake Tahoe and a number of small towns, where a legacy of «strip commercial» development is out of sync with the natural setting, said John Hitchcock, TRPA's principal planner.
Jeff Speck, an urban planner and author of «Walkable Citysaid Lancaster has a lot of things going for it, including numerous downtown anchors, great restaurants, a thriving arts scene, history and other cultural activities.
Construction cranes will continue to dot Toronto's skyline, with city council approving 755 storeys in new development this week, including three new office towers — a trend that underlines the increasing density in the downtown core and the need to plan transit and infrastructure to support it, says the city's chief planner.
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