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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was lucky in that the application I'm submitting had a cost category and percentage schedule outlined in a 2013 city memo. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) That was a mistake. So the Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process: 1. Is annual, not multi-year. Is public.

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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes. And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. As revenues have dropped because of the service crisis, WMATA has finally introduced a variety of fare innovations. It's probably too little too late.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The most prominent example of this is the collective effort by the Ford, Kresge, Mott, and the Knight foundations to fund over $330 million of the bailout for the bankrupt City of Detroit in 2013. Journal of Urban Affairs , 34 (1): 65-80. Nelson, Ashlyn Aiko and Beth Gazley. The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits. Yandle, Tracy, Douglas S.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. You could do a tradeoff in space (like Tribeca in the 1970s); I'd think about downtown if you can get me around 3000 SF in space.