Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 9, 2023

DCCF has also alerted us to a "public safety summit" tomorrow, convened by Mayor Bowser, and bringing a lot of public officials to the table, with citizens invited. DCCF has a post, " Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit ," providing lots of questions to be asked of the public officials.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In early 2020, the Norton Police Department’s (NPD) on-premises, legacy system, failed them for the last time. To revive them, NPD made the decision to go live on the SOMA public safety platform—six months ahead of the scheduled cutover date. Lifesaving services were down.

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Barrett & Greene

MAY 8, 2023

Utilizing the resources of the International Association of Public Participation , much time was spent communicating how input for each project would be used in decision-making, who was responsible for making the final decision and then reporting the final decision back to those who had initially engaged with us.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

Note that this was written before it was announced that the Washington Wizards and Capitals would be moving to Alexandria, Virginia.

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Public Safety Budgeting Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is common for many cities--no public restrooms. Early on cities had public restrooms and baths because much of housing did not. As bathrooms became more prevalent in housing and as local government budgets declined and demands increased, provision of public restrooms was one of the first services to be eliminated.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

The city’s annual budget is $47 million, a fraction of the company’s annual revenue of more than $1 billion. And public safety. We can't forget the importance of the value of public safety, for business owners and residents. But not meeting Pella Corp.’s Pella Corp.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, " Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths ," that the mayor has cut funding for Vision Zero programs, which are designed to reduce traffic fatalities. Other cities have had mixed to negative results from similar initiatives.

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