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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sometimes kids play in it, but with supervision. Anecdotally, I think it's contributed to speed reduction, but I don't think they did of study of prevailing speeds beforehand. It's not fancy. It's temporary.

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School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Starting the transition planning process in January or February, once the decisions have been made on what schools to close, seems very late, too circumscribed in terms of time.

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2023 Crown Communities Award winner: Two massive projects help relieve traffic problems

American City & Country

Those phases were completed in 2017. Parsons Transportation Group provided construction management services, supervising the work performed by Skanska USA Civil West. “That further extended into the county portion, where they improved Yates Road, which kind of goes on the north side of Spring Valley Lake,” Mayo explains.

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How to Evaluate the Likelihood of GSE Reform in the Next Presidential Administration: Six Questions to Ask

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

From about 2015 to the end of the Obama administration in January 2017, the notion of a congressional solution implemented via legislation went almost totally quiet. In the 2017-18 period, as F&F operations under conservatorship continued to improve, the two companies effectively rehabilitated their reputations in the industry.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

The provision also sets a two-year statute of limitations except for 2017 injuries that are filed in 2020. Claims are limited to medical malpractice claims against military medical personnel at military medical facilities. Damages will be based on average federal court damages data for similar injuries.