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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. I don't remember the exact definition. And my neighborhood was the first.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years. Like many cities, Salt Lake is a leader in trying to balance the modes with a renewed focus on sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. Sometimes kids play in it, but with supervision.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said. The presentation helped me figure out some stuff too.

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My ALA Conference

Librarian.net

link] americanlibrariesmagazine.org/ blogs/the-scoop/council-ii- restructuring-and- sustainability/. SustainRT (Sustainability Round Table) produced a really well-written and presented resolution about making ALA more sustainable in terms of climate change, carbon neutrality and encouraging all parts of ALA to pursue these goals.

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ALA Midwinter Report 2022

Librarian.net

Folks might also be interested in the report from the (new) Committee on Sustainability because I know that is of interest to many in this state. There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. link] ethics. Dissolve Staff Organizations Round Table (SORT).

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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Residents were not asked to vote on specific city services to fund or how much funding they thought should go toward specific services. It ends with: "Where would you place your votes?" Residents were also told they could give zero points to statements with which they did not agree, but all seven received points.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The definition of moderate income lists several factors to be considered, such as total income, family size, and cost of housing. No further definition is provided, so the 30% threshold may suffice. In the context of building permit fees, there is specific authority for reduced fees for sustainable design buildings (G.S.