Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

This blog post attempts to identify which of these property tax breaks that might be relevant to a local government’s community and economic development plans. Under that exclusion, qualifying farmland is taxed at its present use (farming) rather than its true market value (for development). Retirement facilities ( G.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 6, 2025

There are plenty of business organizations that come together to work together on economic development matters across jurisdictions, that's part and parcel of the "Growth Machine." The area would be used for industrial development. Some examples of the concept are written about here: -- " Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 28, 2024

From the article: But at Loudoun Gateway, the second-to-last stop on the Silver Line extension, there is never any bustle. I wrote a summary piece about this a few years ago, " The ability to develop around transit stations is conditional on land use and mobility context " (2021).

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 2, 2024

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. Items of interest related to CED in North Carolina: N.C.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Episode 77: CRA Tips: CDCs - Your Partners in Community Development [link] I recently walked a CRA officer through a potential loan transaction in partnership with a community development corporation, otherwise known as a CDC. Either way, these mission based organizations are great partners in community development.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Article by Pam Blumenthal, social science analyst, Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Sarah Schaefer, social science analyst, Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In a recent blog post , Smith recommends developing a network of three or four trusted advisers — what she calls a personal “Board of Directors” — who are willing to listen and share insights from their careers. This article appears in our guide “ How to Change Things up (and Make It Stick).”

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Digital Identity Ecosystems: Government agencies could play a vital role in the development of systems for managing the use of digital identities across the public and private sectors. This article appeared in our guide, “ Agencies Draw a New Modernization Blueprint.”

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article looks at how fraud has evolved, why continuous professional development (CPD) is crucial for fraud investigators, and some practical ways to stay sharp in the fight against fraud Fraud isnt new; humans have been conning each other since the first trade deals. But in todays hyper-connected world, the game has changed.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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GovLoop

APRIL 5, 2023

There’s a good example in the context of agency website development. Finally, agencies start the actual coding, using what USWDS calls its “design tokens” — that is, individual elements of style, such as color palettes, that make the technical development process more efficient for agency staff.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The concept of digital twins, which has been around for years, is gaining traction as agencies gather better data and vendors develop better tools. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are driving the development of more powerful digital twins. This article appears in our guide “ How to Change Things Up (and Make It Stick).”

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GovLoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

When developing new applications, you want to include the end user in the process. recently developed an application that uses open data to track efforts to expand urban forest cover. During the sprints, government agencies invited members of community organizations join their development teams.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 31, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

Episode 76: Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Rethinking Community Development Strategy to Address Digital Inequity with Sarah Hope Marshall [link] Sarah Hope Marshall joins me here to reflect upon digital inequity in place-based community revitalization. It’s a different dynamic, and we adopt things slowly, so we don’t always pause to say, wait.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This comes up because of the Chicago Sun-Times article, " City’s test of additional dwelling units finds most takers in gentrified wards." From the article: This involved allowing additional dwelling units, or ADUs, typically basement or attic apartments or coach houses. Where do I begin? Land value was high because of location.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 28, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Federal Reserve Bank article describes food desert program in a rural area that brings groceries to a central point in town.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 1, 2024

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. link] Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….”

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Open Access Government - Technology News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The research project, outlined in the recent Nature Computational Science article titled ‘Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives,’ introduces a cutting-edge model named life2vec. After an initial learning phase, the model demonstrated superior predictive capabilities, outperforming other advanced neural networks.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Proposals for community-based projects often require references as well, such as citations to government reports, public datasets, or news articles. Before we discuss each tool, we want to give a quick overview of what a reference manager is and why you may want to add one to your proposal development toolbox.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Ringer has an excellent article, " The Baseball Stadium That “Forever Changed” Professional Sports ," assessing the contribution of Camden Yards--a throwback designed baseball stadium which opened in 1992--to baseball, other professional sports, and cities. Camden Yards in 2003. Getty Images photo. I think wrt that, the issue is twofold.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

Just behind that, at 70%, was having access to professional development and career planning. Onboarding and Daily Work We also asked respondents about their hiring, onboarding, daily work and professional development or career-planning experiences. This article appeared in our guide, “ Tools and Tactics for Employee Engagement.”

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 1, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. 3KHDhH8 Last month’s edition of “What @sog_ced is reading….”

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GovLoop

APRIL 13, 2023

Product management also makes it easier to use a design-centered development approach and dovetails with Agile methods, making it a valuable tool in digital transformation. Laughman and his team became more comfortable with the iterative development method as new working parts reliably showed up every two weeks, he said.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. News and Observer article: [link] bit.ly/45rV6R4 Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. Manufactured housing.

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GovLoop

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s a question worth asking, and it may lead to insights that help you develop a better relationship with the public. In an article about rebuilding trust in government, Deloitte Insights broke down government work into six archetypes: retailer, retailer-like, innovator, educator, regulator and enforcer.

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The City Fix

JUNE 11, 2020

This article was originally published on Global Dashboard, as part of their Scenarios Week series, exploring and expanding on Long Crisis Scenarios. For professional optimists like me in the business of advancing an alternative, more wholesome economic model, the temptation can. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 25, 2024

I haven't figured out how to write it up, but Salt Lake City and County have invested in a lot of social infrastructure like libraries and recreation centers on the west side, but they haven't been developed in a manner that promotes the development of centers. Neighbors used the guise of housing justice to block the development.

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Davies In our recently published article in Policy & Politics, we explore the context for local authorities in England that have been pushed to develop “resilience.” By Tania Arrieta and Jonathan S. This has been as a result of the… Continue reading →

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Policy & Politics Journal blog

JULY 3, 2024

by Sarah Brown and Elizabeth Koebele All articles featured in this blog post are free to access until 31 October 2024 It’s that time of year again when course syllabi are updated with fresh research. We hope to make this… Continue reading →

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GovLoop

JULY 10, 2023

Improving citizen experience isn’t just for designers and application developers – it’s something every agency decision-maker and frontline worker should be thinking about. In this article, I explore the 5Es of experience and why two of the most often overlooked, Entice and Extend, are key to improving the overall citizen experience.

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Let's Talk Parks

APRIL 25, 2020

We are about 2,000 as a community, a full service recreation center, about 100 acres of developed park land, lots of open space — we have about a million and a half public lands around us — between the BLM, White River National Forest field offices. What is one challenge your parks and recreation department is facing right now?

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

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.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A subsequent article will follow, providing an in-depth examination of the technical aspects of the Federal Responsible and Secure AI Sandbox. As AI technologies become essential in federal agencies, establishing a responsible, secure, and ethical framework for their development and deployment is crucial.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 1, 2023

The following are articles and reports on the web that the Community and Economic Development Program at the UNC School of Government shared through social media over the past month. Follow us on twitter or facebook to receive regular updates. DFI in the news: UNC DFI project on Main Street in downtown Durham breaks ground.

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