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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c. They don't work well in changed circumstances.

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Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

The Lowe Down

Arguments erupted over the role of local government regulations, from mask mandates to dining capacity limits, on shaping business activities. Figure 1 displays the growth in business applications in each state from 2012-2020, where one can observe the varying growth in business applications across the United States.

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Parks and Rec Brings the Fun — Episode 023

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Kageyama is an author, whose book For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places was recognized in 2012 as a Top 10 Book in urban planning, design and development. On today’s episode, we’re talking with Peter Kageyama, one of the 2018 NRPA Annual Conference keynote speakers.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Similarly, state and local governments might institute “fair share” policies that require all communities to harbor some responsibility for housing the most vulnerable among us. Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g., hospitals and housing) often prevent effective discharge planning ( Greysen et al. Conclusion.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. It is unknown whether a court would find the bill to be local in nature or non-uniform.

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