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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021).

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. Trish Sifka —Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. Mays , 18 F.4th 4th 283 (8th Cir. Eyre , 547 F.3d 3d 707 (7th Cir. City of San Jose , 402 F.3d

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Cities cost money to operate. Cities have to earn money to pay for all the things that people say they want. An art gallery type building won't have near the economic return as a sports arena, provided it is super well planned. And that super shifted my interest towards transit and economic development , c. It's expensive to build.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.