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Travis County Makes Audits Less Taxing

GovLoop

The digital transformation began in 2018 when REC launched a dashboard for remote auditing, and it gained speed during the pandemic — a situation that “push[ed] forward how much more data is being collected during that whole refund process,” said John Gomez , the county’s Senior Data Scientist.

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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

People blamed it for the decline of families in the center city--therefore a bunch of center city schools were on the chopping block--when that is a trend that is national, that people with no children or few children tend to live in the core, while people with families tend to live in the outer city or the suburbs.

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WHY MANY STATE AND CITY RANKINGS DEFY REALITY

Barrett & Greene

As far as we could see the difference between number 29 and number 30 wasn’t even marginally significant and yet these comparisons were often picked up by the local press. We carefully avoided ever using that word preferring to refer to our “evaluations”. And we cringe when we see many of them, for a variety of reasons.

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Whatever happened to planning when it comes to civic assets, public facilities, revitalization?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I'm writing this in reaction to an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun , " Harborplace reinvention: Baltimore needs a task force to get it right ," about Harborplace. From the op-ed: Baltimore has a wonderful opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons as my father, James Rouse, used to say. Where there are problems, there is opportunity.

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Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Personally, I don't see the bridge park as a likely high velocity augur of gentrification because it isn't located near housing, on either side of the river. With Douglass’s mission in mind, Ed Lazere, a former D.C. It will be a trek to get to.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In any case, people like to volunteer, hold classes, do demonstrations, etc., It is the idea that people are attached to their place or immediate habitat, which is a portion of the greater environment. One of his concepts is what he called " triangulation ," where people who didn't know each other talk to each other.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This comes up because Randy Clarke, the new leader of the Washington area's transit system (Metrorail and Metrobus), has an op-ed in the Washington Post , stating that the transit system is really "we the people" (not his words), " New Metro GM: It’s your transit system." It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?” Andy Byford.

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