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million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). In parts of the country, air pollution reached some of the world’s deadliest levels in recent years, with 1.6
Philadelphia's Design Advocacy Group, uniting more than 2,000 professional architects, designers, and planners, has come out against the proposal too, because it argues it will have a deadening effect on Market Street at the ground level (" A large Philly-based group of architects and designers just came out against the 76ers’ arena plan ," PI ).
Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes. Planning and advocacy.
The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. Because land use planning is about managing not preventing development, you're always going to get plenty of citizens calling the system corrupt. It's not corrupt--well, not usually.
What I like about this definition is that it suggests there is always room for improvement. Since inclusive language develops and changes over time, grant writers should pay close attention to the terminology that is widely used in each particular field or industry. What’s next.
The trail is definitely utilized. And yes, they have an Active Transportation Committee focused on developing sustainable mobility options. But I guess they don't have a set of basic standards about what a regional bikeway network should look like and how it should be implemented.
As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. That took over my life for the semester.
There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) That scandalizes my MIL, but I'm not about to get into a debate with her about how the car companies and their allies changed the definition of street to be car centric instead of people centered.
But other cities out West too, bigger like Boise, and smaller like Ennis, Montana or at trailheads in the Wasatch Front like Bell Canyon (" New trailhead expected to help grow one of Salt Lake County's more popular trails ," KSL) which has a great facility and definitely no concerns about the homeless because it is so remote.
Midwinter, now called LibLearnX for some reason, is in San Antonio and will definitely be a hybrid meeting and I do not plan to attend in person. Obviously there are a lot of benefits to attending in person as well but the costs are one of VLA’s largest expenses. You can read that report here, it’s really worthwhile.
The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. Plus, most state and local sites don't do a very good job of putting their documents online to begin with One of my ideas is to develop an online database of such historical documents.
This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.
Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH. Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental.
First, we provide background on New York City’s housing market and recent policy developments that relate to heirs’ property and tangled titles. As a response to the city’s housing shortage, the City Council changed the ZR to allow for more housing development. The report proceeds as follows.
The purpose is to establish a solid fact base that is needed to develop effective MH-related policy. Basic Definitions and Facts MH had a questionable reputation before it began an upgrade from its low-quality origins many decades ago. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S.
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As is my want, when I was in college I became interested in how colleges work and I read a lot of the literature of the time about "college student development" especially William Perry's Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme (book, a webpage ). I don't know why exactly.
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Sometimes, it’s in the interest of a reporter or an advocacy group to avoid looking further than a single digit and use it as representative of a full story. “If It’s definitely a challenge in doing research and being open to numbers that challenge your hypothesis. It takes some real effort to get past that.”
The incoming presidential administration of Donald Trump (Trump II) is now developing key policy priorities to implement once it takes office in January. Will Trump II aim, in developing a post-exit business model, to primarily satisfy the members of its political coalition who are small-government conservatives?
What this means is that we could see a joint budget resolution that delivers program-slashing instructions to the committees that initiate definitions of what programs in their area can and can’t do and the maximum agencies can spend on them. We can donate to advocacy organizations, if we can afford to, join their social media campaigns, etc.
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