Center for Community Progress
JUNE 6, 2022
Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. 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. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Next-Generation Ohio Land Banks.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 19, 2023
And the GMU campus at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which has the policy and law schools, and other programs. DC's planning function and capacity has diminished with each mayor since Anthony Williams left office in 2006. I find DC's planning around higher education to be pretty disappointing. But that's not a unique failing.
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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.
NLRG (National Legal Research Group)
DECEMBER 21, 2020
588, 592-93 (1872) (nonperformance excused when occasioned by act of law); see also Sch. 3d 724, 735 (2006) (temporary impossibility suspends performance "unless the delayed performance becomes materially more burdensome or the temporary impossibility becomes permanent"). Harrington v. Dennie , 13 Mass. 93, 94 (1816); Mis. & Tenn.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. increase in violent crimes.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JANUARY 18, 2024
Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.
Public Policy Blog
JANUARY 3, 2014
Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).
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