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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. When the government owns the facility, TDM agreements need to be part of the lease with the tenant--the sports team.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%. US Government, Washington DC, 12 pp.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.