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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

A recent analysis by the Baltimore Banner found that 15,000 properties have appeared on the tax lien sale list twice since 2016 and 4,300 properties have appeared three times.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although I did here, " Tysons (Corner) 10 Years after the plan to make it more walkable: the necessity of implementation mechanisms " (2020). This comes up in a letter to the editor to the Post (" Why I won’t take the Silver Line to Dulles "). Some examples exist, especially in Tempe, Arizona.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. This provision was not implemented and the result appears to have been thousands of avoidable deaths. Pandemic Influenza 18-to 20 October 2016.

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Linda Lenz, founding editor of Catalyst Chicago, dies at 77 | Technical assistance for local schools advocates

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The same organization that publishes CR published Catalyst , which ceased operation in 2016, after publishing for 26 years. While speed bumps do suck, what's being proposed are raised crosswalks, and the way they are implemented in Salt Lake they don't "hinder" traffic, but they do provide visual, aural and physical cues to not drive as fast.

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

PBB 2.0 – Launch of the PBB Community and the power of it’s users Evolution of the Master Plan: from “implementing PBB” to “using PBB data to make positive change” In 2008, Jon and I had one simple plan: bail out Jefferson County, Colorado from their multi-million dollar deficit. Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB.

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CPBB Teams with Toledo Regional Chamber to Bring Priority Based Budgeting to the City of Toledo, Ohio

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

In this first article, the focus is on: “What is Priority Based Budgeting, Why do Communities implement this practice, and where is the City in the midst of its implementation.” The City of Toledo has just launched its implementation of Priority Based Budgeting, with the development of its Program and Services Inventory.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. We did this in 2008 or 2009. 2006 and beyond, although what it's become is perhaps far beyond what I suggested, " Retail planning and Florida Market ," 2009. Allow the sales of alcohol.