Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

Economic development versus building a local economy. Unfortunately, economic impact studies are usually conducted by the proponents, not an independent organization, and cities, especially elected officials, aren't particularly skilled at digging into the claims from a more nuanced perspective.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 10, 2024

Her department works with others to select stories that reflect how the library collaborates on community initiatives such as economic and workforce development, building regional partnerships, and creating innovative services and programs of value to all community members.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2024

While some elected officials expressed some support of “good cause” in principle, the absence of a concrete proposal left the debate unresolved. Various jurisdictions are experimenting with rental registries to help provide the data needed to develop effective housing policies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

In textbooks on organizational psychology, behavior and development, there is an extended discussion of boundary spanning, where people have conflicting responsibilities to different groups with different priorities. At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. U Street NW.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The shift to remote work, whether universal or not, represents a significant challenge for public officials focused on economic development. Any discussion about economic development incentives must begin with the state constitution. Economic development subsidies have long been prohibited. Constitutional context.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It’s essential to give your workforce time to train and develop their skills. Equip your team with training and resources. Leaders in the public sector know people are their most valuable resource.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US.

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Human Transit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

His article is mostly about urban development debates, dipping into transit now and then. No matter how profoundly we are transforming access to opportunity in a city, most fortunate people, including most elected officials, only care if we propose to build something. (I

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Even though transit usage is much reduced in DC post-covid, I don't think DC elected officials understand how central transit is to the city's competitive advantage and identity. From Encyclopedia Brittanica : Incrementalism was first developed in the 1950s by the American political scientist Charles E.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 19, 2022

In this chapter, Reinvestment Fund ’s Emily Dowdall and Ira Goldstein discuss vacant property remediation and prevention plans in the Leigh Valley as a case study of data-driven community development. Click here to download the full chapter and read more insights on tackling vacancy and abandonment from the nation’s leading experts.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. It's worth a read. historic architecture 2.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 6, 2023

In our work at Smart Incentives and PFM Group Consulting we’re often called upon to advise economic development organizations and evaluate incentive programs. Externally, organizations can be confident that they have good quality data that can be shared with elected officials, other policy leaders, and the public.

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Barrett & Greene

APRIL 20, 2023

Over the course of years, we’ve been aware that the people who generate new policies -- often elected officials – get much of the credit, or blame, for major projects and programs. But the book points to Averell Harriman, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, as the individual who coordinated the implementation of the plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Elected officials didn't make those decisions.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Cybersecurity teams should, and often do, understand existing and potential risks and develop strategies to tackle them — but convincing people to appreciate and guard against those risks is a different matter. What we’re finding that resonates with our elected officials is loss of trust by the public.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Last month, we witnessed history as the Great American Outdoors Act was officially signed into law. LWCF is the most important source of federal funding to create and develop local parks, trails, boat launches, sports fields, and other recreation areas and park infrastructure that enrich our communities.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members. Find professional development opportunities for you to learn about the grant profession and best practices.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

The City took this discovery to heart and applied it to , the development of its 2022 budget. Local governments – many with the best of intentions -- face a perennial disconnect between elected officials; sustainability, resilience, and equity offices; and budget and finance leaders in aligning resources with climate initiatives.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fifth, that activists and elected officials sure didn't understand how to be proactive (" The Silver Line WMATA story that WJLA-TV missed ," 2014). DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Extending the Silver Line to Leesburg.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And the tram system was developed after the museum opened, and they realized they needed better "intra-district" transit service between subway stations to better serve the patrons of the Guggenheim Museum. One example might be rezoning in Belltown and on blighted Third Avenue to encourage taller buildings and residential development.

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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning.

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GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

Second, CECIDS relates to a recently developed roadmap to help the CPS’ Department of Early Childhood Education streamline and integrate its own early childhood information. That project resulted in a cloud-based data warehouse, built by DFSS, that will allow some agencies and organizations to merge and share data.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 28, 2016

He said that when executive staff or elected officials receive citizen survey results that identify areas the public finds to need improvement, best practice should NOT be to conclude that residents simply don’t understand the wonderful work the local government is doing; best practice should NOT be to aim only at educating the uninformed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 12, 2023

So city elected officials seem to think it is the responsibility of the county while the county officials, because the park is in the City, see it more as a city facility. CCC did not develop its own design guidance, it used technical assistance manuals developed by NPS and the Forest Service. NPS rustic.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Second, CECIDS relates to a recently developed roadmap to help the CPS’ Department of Early Childhood Education streamline and integrate its own early childhood information. That project resulted in a cloud-based data warehouse, built by DFSS, that will allow some agencies and organizations to merge and share data.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

To stoke development in that area, a process that has been going on for about 20 years--giving the rights to develop to the team owner, which is the trend in stadium and arena development. Naturally, the business community especially the real estate development community was against and could spend a lot of money fighting it.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

AUGUST 30, 2016

This holistic approach helps to provide elected officials and other decision-makers with a "new lens" through which to frame better-informed financial and budgeting decisions and helps ensure that a community is able to identify and preserve those programs and services that are most highly valued.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2003, when I was on the board of H Street Main Street, and advocating that the group create a housing growth strategy in its retail trade area, I suggested that the RFK parking lots, especially along Benning Road, should be converted to housing and mixed use development. Other areas too.)

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Donald, who earns a salary of $275,000, “has no experience in property development, property management or managing federal housing programs,” the audit notes. Council-approved appointees and her chief of staff and deputy mayor for planning and economic development, John Falcicchio, who is an ex officio member. Bowser’s six D.C.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

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. Salt Lake is hot in the summer.

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AccessE11

MARCH 14, 2024

For municipal staff and elected officials, the journey towards digital transformation involves understanding the limitations of current practices, exploring the capabilities of modern technologies, and leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning.

Strategic Planning 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

There’ll be outreach and engagement and development of the plan and the design neighborhood by neighborhood, followed by bidding it out and finding contractors that can build it for us — often, that process takes two years,” Jon Larsen, the city’s director of transportation, said.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. The city developed a capacity building and training infrastructure to support it.

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