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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While this might not be dense for a much bigger city, Sugar House is becoming the densest SLC neighborhood outside of downtown, especially along the Trax light rail line. The Tribune article asks the question of whether or not the streetcar is contributing to traffic reduction. Photo: Leah Hogsten, Salt Lake Tribune.

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"Temporary" uses as a way to foil development: Bruce Monroe Elementary School site, DC | from school to park to housing

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Those buildings would create 273 units of housing, some of which would have replaced the existing 174 units at Park Morton while it undergoes redevelopment. I really like how the poster mis-states the original intention for the site, and of course, positions the use as a "giveaway to developers."

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a report 1 (the Report) recommending reforms for the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs.

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Simplifying the Online Employee Onboarding Process in Park Agencies

Let's Talk Parks

My goal in this article to share with you that creating an employee onboarding system, while hard work now, can pay off dividends in the future – and that your employee intranet system is the foundation of doing so. In this article, we’ll talk about the five steps to creating your online employee portal. and lots of general questions.

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What’s Going on in State & Local?

GovLoop

Priorities for States Each year, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) publishes federal advocacy priorities that represent areas of focus for the upcoming year and how states can collaborate with federal agencies, Congress, the White House and strategic partners.

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Revisiting Mott's Market corner store in Capitol Hill DC: residents buy the building after all

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- Mott's Neighborhood Market It turns out the cost of renovating the building to become a house was too high for the purchaser, and the residents ended up getting another chance to buy the building which they did (" Neighbors Buy Mott’s Market Building: Community Bands Together and Saves Mott's Market ," Hill Rag ).

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Drive ins are negative contributors to community

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

That's pretty close to us, and Sugar House is where Sugar House Park is, where I'm on the board. Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree. There was an ice cream manufacturing plant, now slated for housing. Salt Lake. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge.

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