Development Elected Officials Voting 
Barrett & Greene
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Over the course of the last few months, we’ve been digging deeply into the world of tax incentives given by states and local governments to help encourage economic development. But the real reasons behind most economic development deals aren’t things for which they can take credit. There’s more.
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
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.
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. Flickr photo by Ken Lund. Other areas too.)
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). Donald, who earns a salary of $275,000, “has no experience in property development, property management or managing federal housing programs,” the audit notes. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ). Bowser’s six D.C.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
JUNE 27, 2024
In 2022, the city reduced the street mph to 20mph for most neighborhood streets, which in a car oriented city, is at times controversial (" Salt Lake City Council lowers speed limit to 20 mph on 70% of city streets in unanimous vote ," " Salt Lake City swaps first 20 mph speed limit sign in initiative for safer streets ," Salt Lake Tribune ).
Community and Economic Development Program of UNC
MAY 16, 2022
Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. The affordable housing specialists in the School’s Development Finance Initiative (DFI) regularly assist local governments with these preliminary steps. Department of Housing and Urban Development.”
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