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Are combination inspectors a good choice for municipalities?

American City & Country

Florida made legislative changes requiring buildings that are three stories or higher and more than 30 years old, to undergo a milestone inspection. The struggle is in the balancing act between safety, regulation and economic development, as well as the tendency for lessons learned from past disasters that fade with time.

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How to Tell What’s on the New Governors Minds

Barrett & Greene

But we’ve found they’re one of the best ways to scope out both management and policy priorities before any new legislation winds its way through legislatures. [Photo: Oregon Governor Tina Kotek] Generally, gubernatorial executive orders get scanty press attention. Multiple advisory councils and task forces were also set up.

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Legislators haven’t seriously considered measures to discourage drinking, and voters expanded access to alcohol in grocery stores. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions. Part 2: Colorado has some of the lowest alcohol taxes and highest drinking deaths.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I mean, it's not like the arguing that is typical between the Executive and Legislative branches, this is an intra-government tiff. The Washington Post reports (" D.C. This is very interesting because it's one department of the city arguing with another department, both within the executive branch.

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Emergency Home Repair Loans: Local Government as Financial Bridge

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

It is reasonable to rely on federal CDBG regulations for guidance because G.S. 4] North Carolina Legislation 1975 , ed. 160D-1311 was enacted in 1975 to address “uncertainty” about the authority of cities and counties to participate in the CDBG program authorized by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974). [5]

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After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Post-Helene, there is not a moratorium on summary ejectment proceedings, although activists and at least two legislators have called upon the legislature, the chief justice, and the governor for such action. Statutes regulate where security deposits are held, how they are used by the landlord, and how much the landlord can collect.

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Is the Growth Machine a casualty of the culture wars?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Anyway, more recently, Republican culture wars, albeit more at the level of state government interfering in local economic development, but when there is some sort of state nexus, in some places, is triggering anti Growth Machine actions. Florida and Disney.