Sentences with phrase «voted against the project»

The developer withdrew the Northwest Crossing project this week when it appeared the City Council was going to vote against the project.

On June 1, the Zoning Board unanimously voted against the project, saying the planned facility's 113 parking spaces would be inadequate.

Commissioner Tim Satkowski, who voted against the project, said that while he also believed District 54 should help pay for the playground, more importantly, the Park District could save $ 11,000 in labor costs if it waited until next spring to start the work.

Although the failure to reach a living wage agreement with the developer had been a key issue in the weeks of debate leading up to the City Council vote, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited traffic issues as integral to the decision to vote against the project.

Six councilmembers voted against the project, including Councilman Antonio Reynoso, whose district sits across from the Broadway Triangle and who has been a vocal critic since the project's inception over a year ago.

Councilor Michael Todd voted against the project and urged other council members to do the same.

The Democrat & Chronicle reported that COMIDA's board has not offered a single «No» vote against a project in the past year.

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KITIMAT, B.C. — The residents of Kitimat, B.C. have voted against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project in a non-binding plebiscite.

«I don't want a lot of people from another country coming to work here,» says Iris Monn, a young adult who works for the valley administration and voted against the mining project.

This subject deserves better than the court of political correctness, whose authority, advocates of homosexual marriage hope, will prevail until the law is voted on — a tribunal they defend by means of disqualifying caricatures against anyone who dares to question their project and their motives.

Commissioner Mike Brown was the sole vote against the purchase because of a projected $ 30,000 shortfall in running the club and because membership is too expensive for some residents.

But Councilman Robert Hacker said he would vote against the baseball and aquatics projects.

Proposals for the construction of the # 42 billion HS2 project, which a small number of Conservative MPs are set to vote against later today, have also cost the Tories rural votes.

In separate news, The Fair Vote Project, which was set up to represent those whose data was harvested, is preparing a damages claim against Facebook.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

The bill's fate will rest in large measure with the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who voted against the Armory project last year but whose office declined to comment on the wage bill.

However, the approval of the subcommittee is considered to be a last step for the project, as the full Council almost never votes against its subcommittees, Crain's reported.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

«Today's vote against the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment project means the loss of a rare opportunity to bring thousands of jobs and more than $ 300 million in private investment to the Bronx,» Bloomberg said.

But citizens against the wind turbine project plan to hold a demonstration early Monday evening before the vote.

Johnston and Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz also voted against incentives being offered to Kolkmeyer's project.

The New York City Council voted against the proposed Kingsbridge Armory development today, a $ 310 million project that would have refurbished the unoccupied building for use as a retail hub in the Bronx.

Petit's mindless rigidity in voting against any and all spending — including bond issues for road and bridge projects — may appeal to die - hard Conservatives, less so to more independent - minded Indies.

«It's the equivalent of a guy who's about to get his house foreclosed on putting a new media room in the basement,» said Trotta, who cast the only votes against two resolutions to fund the projects through a bond issue and said he'd been provided with little information beforehand.

Democrats have previously voted against borrowing for each of the projects.

He was one of a handful — along with De Blasio — to vote against Two Trees Development's controversial Dock Street project in Dumbo.

After the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016, local artist and GSD member Kim Sillen organized the Senator Portrait Project — images of the US Senators who take NRA money and vote against gun safety laws.

Five legislators voted against the plan, saying those Oneida Indian Nation funds could be used for projects with a large economic impact for the county.

Here's a few stories, opinion pieces, and quotes, floating around the Web: Bronx BP Ruden Diaz, Jr. released a statement saying, «I am proud of the members of the Bronx City Council delegation for standing together and voting against this development project, and I am happy to see that so many City Council members from other boroughs were willing to join us.»

The New York City Council voted against the proposed Kingsbridge Armory development today, a $ 310 million project that would have refurbished the unoccupied building...

The law requires that at least three - quarters of the city legislative body must vote in favor a project if 20 percent of those owning land within 500 feet of a proposed zoning change sign petitions against it.

The Smithtown Town Board voted 4 - 0 against requiring BQ Energy to submit an environmental impact statement for the proposed project on an old solid waste landfill.

Tenke said residents were voting more against what he called overly generous tax breaks and financial assistance for the projects than against the developments themselves.

The full board gave a thumbs up to the project, also known as Rose Castle, with 24 members voting in favor of approving it, four against and one abstention.

However, they said they did not want to vote against the deal because it was originally approved by the agency and the Syracuse Common Council in 2008 and the project's financing is based on it.

One who voted for the project in 2011, Monica Williams, voted against it Wednesday.

Republican Legislator Carey said he had very great concerns about the project and would vote against it since he was misled by the purpose of the funding and it appeared to be illegal to co-mingle sewer and police department needs.

Martin, one of the commissioners who voted against paying to finish the project, said the commissioners had already gotten what they were looking for: general recommendations for how to mitigate potential health effects.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in education.

Again, even though the local board of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's hometown.

[11] In 2014, the council voted against an 895 - acre project that would have extended development on agricultural lands east towards the Conejo Grade.

«The New York Enemy / Ally Project», Powhida's February 2008 installation at Schroeder Romero Gallery in Chelsea — part of their «Caucus» group show — tabulated anonymous voting both for and against various entities (from Jeffrey Deitch to the L Train) that were submitted to a website established for the project and also to a ballot box located in the gProject», Powhida's February 2008 installation at Schroeder Romero Gallery in Chelsea — part of their «Caucus» group show — tabulated anonymous voting both for and against various entities (from Jeffrey Deitch to the L Train) that were submitted to a website established for the project and also to a ballot box located in the gproject and also to a ballot box located in the gallery.

But other Perquimans commissioners reached for this article, both of whom voted against some aspect of Timbermill, didn't rule out all other potential wind projects.

EII's John Muir Project urges you to call Democrat Party leaders — Senator Chuck Schumer (202 224-6542) and Representative Nancy Pelosi (202 225-4965)-- and your local senators today and tell them to strip this provision from the Omnibus Bill or to vote against this bill in its entirety.

In 2007, he voted against a bill which would have required the Army Corps of Engineers to consider global warming in planning water projects.

And there it is — essentially, a handful of Republicans have occasionally broken ranks to protest NIMBY projects that their states would object to, or to vote against something so egregious that anyone but a stalwart, balls - to - the - wall Tea Partier would have to admit is crazy.

The merits of the project had become a party political issue in the imminent local election and despite «the formidable arguments on both sides, not a single member of the coalition either abstained or voted against the motion».

Los Angeles partner and vice chair of the firm's US finance practice Jeff Greenberg will now enter into a run - off vote against London and New York based project finance partner Bill Voge, with voting taking place this week.

«When I first saw Todd I was so impressed with his speech at the PMI Symposium in Indonesia that I booked him as a speaker for the Microsoft Asia Project Conference, where he was voted the best speaker against tough competition.