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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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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Fast forward to 2015, where during the United Nations Summit, all UN member states adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets with a plan to achieve them in 15 years. It is a crucial metric for evaluating the environmental impact of an operation or product.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. 3 In that report, the FHFA disclosed that the average G-fee across all products was 0.46 Of the current 0.46 percent versus 0.30

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Newspaper acquisition as an element of a conservative agenda

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In Alabama , to shape discourse on utility regulation, Alabama Power has created a news service (" How an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news ," Guardian ). A Floodlight review of the content since the utility founded the Alabama News Center in 2015 shows it publishes overwhelmingly positive stories about the power company.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

: arts as revitalization versus arts as community building ," (2024) In 2009, I gave a presentation at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference about "arts districts" and theatre as an example of an artistic-discipline focused approach. -- " Arts, culture districts and revitalization ," (2009) In 2015 I made the network/cultural (..)

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). 122 (2015)); loans for persons of low and moderate income to acquire housing ( In Re Denial of Approval of Bonds , 307 N.C. State , 368 N.C. State , 368 N.C. Subject to certain conditions and limitations, G.S. To be clear, G.S.