2014, 2015 and Sustainability - Public Administration Today

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

Transportation

Transportation Sustainability Housing Management

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

Housing

Housing Local Government Community Development Laws

Washington State Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

JULY 11, 2023

During his tenure, the State has successfully supported the response to and recovery from numerous major disasters to include the COVID Pandemic, the SR 530 Oso Landslide, the record-setting wildfire seasons of 2014 and 2015, and a host of devastating weather events.

Management

Management Coordinator Sustainability Implementation

Webinars

Municipal Maintenance: Ready, Set, Inspect!

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions.

Transportation

Transportation Management Parks And Recreation Housing

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). 15 years ago I first wrote that WMATA needed to rebuild the regional consensus about the value of transit: -- " St. It's about speed versus access. I note that GGW just wrote about this this week.

Transportation

Transportation Coordinator Budgeting Sustainability

Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

AWS hosts National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6) data through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). QuickSight TASMAX CDD median – year comparison tree map for 2015 and 2099 showing proportional sum.

Operations

Operations Sustainability Accountability Public Sector

City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In the 2015 budget process, the city engaged in a streamlined PBB process, recognizing the significant work that had been done in prior years, as well as the demands on staff related to flood recovery and the implementation of an integrated Finance and Human Resources business solutions software package.

Budgeting

Budgeting Parks And Recreation Social Media Implementation

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

Elected Officials

Elected Officials Transportation Sustainability Operations

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

Transportation

Transportation Public Transportation Management Sustainability

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, I mention that as an issue a lot in terms of funding.

Transportation

Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development

Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities.

Budgeting

Budgeting Strategic Planning Implementation Development

Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

Transportation

Transportation Laws Sustainability Budgeting

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. It's amazing how much I've written about this topic, providing guidance for something that could have been great. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

Transportation

Transportation Campaign Public Health Laws

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

The barriers to environmental sustainability in post-disaster settings: a case study of transitional shelter implementation in Haiti. Krimgold (eds) 2015. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. iii] Abrahams, D. Disasters 38(S1): S25-S49. [iv] iv] Davis, Ian 1978. Shelter After Disaster. Oxford Polytechnic Press, Oxford, 127 pp. [v]

Social Media

Social Media Public Affairs Development Security

Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Washington State Emergency Management

Webinars

What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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

Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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