Sentences with phrase «year in the city limits»

While organizations like PedalHouston are looking to positively change Houston roads for bicyclists by raising awareness for bike lanes, there are still hundreds of accidents per year in the city limits and beyond.

Not exact matches

«We've been around in Austin supporting big events like Austin City Limits and New Year's, but SXSW is as big as it gets,» said Evdakov, the company's CEO.

But this time, the ripples aren't getting beyond city limits, even though in Vancouver prices for single - family homes rose 11 % over the past year and now average around $ 2 million on the city's west side.

While many U.S. cities experienced price gains over the last year, only the metro areas shown above will see higher loan limits in 2016.

And since prices have risen sharply in many cities this year, we could see some higher loan limits in 2017.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

After a tumultuous year spent in Baghdad, Iraq in 2006 during which I saw increasing suicide bombings and other attacks throughout the city, and had very limited access to culinary opportunities, I was uncertain of what to expect in the land of Ghengis Khan and the Taliban.

However in the last five years we have allegedly got our debts under control and are a club that each year turns a healthy profit, we were also told by Wenger that the Fifa FFP rules would limit the other big spending clubs and this would level the playing field, and we could then be able to level out with the Chelsea and Man City's of this world.

Manchester City have already sent out a chilling message to their rivals that large sums of cash splashed on superstars can make you an overnight title contender, with the Eastlands outfit heading into the New Year level on points with arch-rivals Manchester United at the summit, so the hear their assistant manager Brian Kidd claim the team will only get stronger in 2011 will be of alarming news to their competitors, who are working on more limited budgets and will find it harder and harder to maintain pace with City as the club continue their relentless pursuit of major honours.

Every year, the Robinson Family Farm in Temple (an hour's drive from Austin's city limits) hosts a giant Pumpkin Patch on the weekends.

Officials still hope to locate the skate park near downtown, but the district has spent years developing the spaces in the city's core into mature parks and space is limited, said Devin Lavigne, the district's planning manager.

The council's approval came as a relief to the group of teens and parents who have been fighting for years for a place to skate in the city, most of which is off - limits to skateboarders.

City Limits article on BP Adams and Council Member Williams hosting the first City Council hearing in seven years on Mitchell - Lama developments at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Koslowitz built up her pension after 23 years on the city payroll, including a decade in the council that ended in 2001 after the arrival of term limits.

Now, after serving almost two years in the Assembly, Espinal is running for City Council in District 37, less because of his commitment to service than because his former boss, CM Erik Dilan, is term limited and needs a new job.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state legislators approved a law that would allow ride - sharing companies to operate anywhere in the state (previously, they were limited to New York City).

Mr. Recchia — who served as chairman of the City Council's powerful finance committee — was term - limited out of office last year and decided to challenge Mr. Grimm after failing to secure support in his party to run for City Comptroller or for borough president of his native Brooklyn.

The investors service also labeled the state budget overall a «credit positive» as well, citing both the 2 percent limit in state spending increases year over year, plus $ 300 million in pre-K funding for New York City.

Two members of the Yonkers City Council, Majority Leader Michael Sabatino and Minority Leader Mike Breen, both commented recently that while they have no desire to overturn term limits, or modify term limits to allow a third four - year term, if someone were interested in doing so, they should do it by a referendum and not by a council vote.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER By unanimous votes on March 7, the City Council approved three measures aimed at strengthening shelter options for homeless youth in New York, including a long contested move to raise the age limit for eligibility in youth shelters to include those 21 to 24 years old.

On Wednesday Campaign Finance Board Chairwoman Rose Gill Hearn said she could not comment on the ongoing probe but noted, «We have all seen a concerning increase in activity by organizations that face no limits on what they can raise and spend at the city and state level in recent years.

Some supporters saw a potential ally in Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has spent the better part of four years blaming his failures on the way the constitution regulates elections, structures state government and imposes severe limits on the power of New York City.

Gifford Miller has been teaching politics at NYU since the spring, avoiding the practice of politics since losing in last year's Democratic mayoral primary and being term - limited out of his job as City Council speaker.

And Cuomo's feud with Mayor de Blasio stalled the city's receipt of nearly $ 2 billion in new housing funds, failed to revive an affordable - housing tax break and limited de Blasio's control over city schools to one year.

Ordinarily, the City Council Speaker would be included among the contenders, but Democrat Melissa Mark - Viverito is term - limited out of office in four years, putting her in an unusual spot.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Due to agreements struck by the Cuomo administration with the state's American Indian tribes and the enabling legislation approved by lawmakers earlier this year, the casinos built in the first phase of construction will be limited to north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.

Due to agreement with the state's Indian nations, and enabling language approved by the Assembly and Senate last year, the casinos in the first phase of construction will be limited to areas north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.

De Blasio intended to protest cuts in the new state budget to Medicaid funding and the City University, but instead found himself fending off demands by lawmakers that the city limit increases in the property tax to 2 percent a yCity University, but instead found himself fending off demands by lawmakers that the city limit increases in the property tax to 2 percent a ycity limit increases in the property tax to 2 percent a year.

In the fiscal year ending in June 2014, the city billed a group of roughly 1,000 limited - income co-ops $ 21.1 million in property taxes — and collected only $ 14.1 million of that amount, according to the budget officIn the fiscal year ending in June 2014, the city billed a group of roughly 1,000 limited - income co-ops $ 21.1 million in property taxes — and collected only $ 14.1 million of that amount, according to the budget officin June 2014, the city billed a group of roughly 1,000 limited - income co-ops $ 21.1 million in property taxes — and collected only $ 14.1 million of that amount, according to the budget officin property taxes — and collected only $ 14.1 million of that amount, according to the budget office.

In Los Angeles, the City Council is considering a bill that would legalize and regulate the home - sharing industry by limiting rentals to 120 days a year, requiring them to be a host's primary residence and cutting off users found to be in violatioIn Los Angeles, the City Council is considering a bill that would legalize and regulate the home - sharing industry by limiting rentals to 120 days a year, requiring them to be a host's primary residence and cutting off users found to be in violatioin violation.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Albany leadership to pass legislation that would limit New York's involvement in federal immigration enforcement during the rumored special session this year to stave off President - elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.

During his club pitch to D.I.D., he said he chose not to run for reelection as city comptroller four years ago because he thought it would have been wrong — in an unstated but obvious dig at opponent Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who backed Bloomberg's push to extend term limits on city officials.

Residents of Syracuse proper — those who live within the city limits — are eligible to vote in the general election, including SU students who registered to vote using the address at which they live during the academic year, said Dustin Czarny, commissioner of the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

Beginning next year, New York City will test a pilot program limiting curbside delivery in certain high - traffic commercial zones during peak hours — and will also crack down on drivers who block intersections — as part of the mayor's five - part plan to curb congestion.

The budget also extends for two years the so - called millionaire's tax, preserving up to $ 4.5 billion in annual revenue, and keeps in place a cap limiting the number of charter schools, both positive outcomes for city public schools.

«It's been a long 12 years, it should have been eight,» he added in a jab at Quinn for orchestrating a 2008 City Council vote that altered the city's term limits law from two four - year terms for officeholders to thCity Council vote that altered the city's term limits law from two four - year terms for officeholders to thcity's term limits law from two four - year terms for officeholders to three.

Heastie argued the state authorized an increase in charter schools allowed in the city two years ago and that limit has not been reached.

The charges say someone approached Mr. Pan, 46, of Hudson County, N.J., in July of this year and said they wanted to donate $ 16,000 to the candidate, far in excess of the city - imposed limit of $ 4,950 for individual contributions.

Also on the agenda is a talk on the governor's ability to shape the language of the state budget, the change in the political landscape when Pataki steps down at the end of the year, the chief concerns of New York's ailing cities, and the validity of mayoral term limits.

Mark - Viverito will be term - limited out of office at the end of next year and while she has indicated that she may continue to be active in city politics, there is no clear next step for her, especially in terms of elected office.

Queens» Weprin, the third candidate given a decent shot at prevailing, cites his 16 years in the State Assembly prior to joining the Council in 2010 to claim his bona fides as a progressive, but lays greatest emphasis on two other factors — use of his Albany know - how to advance the city's interests there and the eight years he is still qualified to serve in contrast to the term limits most of his rivals face in 2017.

When the official weather station moved from downtown Buffalo to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in 1943, it limited the amount of climate data from inside city limits over the last 50 years.

EAST WILLIAMSBURG — Neighbors of about a dozen waste transfer sites in East Williamsburg and Greenpoint, are calling on the City Council to revive a bill introduced last year that would limit how much trash any one community could take on.

Because of term limit legislation in the city, Miner, who was elected the first female mayor of Syracuse four years ago, is essentially a lame duck.

A leader in the sanitation industry in the country, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has donated 10 brand new Nissan pickup trucks and a number of motor cycles worth over 1.5 million Ghana cedis to the Accra metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in a bid to help the Assembly realize its projection and the president's vision of making Accra the cleanest city in the African Region by the year 2020.

The study was conducted in Jena, Germany, a city with 100,000 residents and only a few days over the last several years during which concentrations of some air pollutants exceeded EU daily limits.

The World Bank estimates that over the next 15 years, the global economy will require $ 89 trillion in infrastructure investments across cities, energy and land - use systems, and $ 4.1 trillion in incremental investment for the low - carbon transition to keep within the internationally agreed limit of a 2 - degree - Celsius temperature rise.

Upper limits of experience All of the candidate cities — Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing, China; Krakow, Poland; Lviv, Ukraine; and Oslo, Norway — will likely be facing temperatures near the upper limits of what each region has experienced in the past 150 years, according to a Daily Climate analysis of climate models constructed by University of Hawaii, Manoa, geographer Camilo Mora and colleagues.

Rome has tried several measures over the past five years to limit traffic in the historic centre of the city.