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‘A Starting Point’ co-founders Chris Evans, Mark Kassen and Joe Kiani honored with our 2024 Spirit of Service Award

Partnership for Public Service

“A Starting Point” is a civic engagement platform designed to facilitate bipartisan communication and connection between the public and elected officials. Through video interviews and discussions, it aims to create a more informed electorate and foster civic engagement.

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Urban planning when things are going well: DC, 2014 (The Office of Planning under Harriet Tregoning)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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Wizards and Capitals teams staying in DC after all and the failure of the mansion tax referendum in Chicago have one thing in common: failure to take the time to build consensus

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. The court said no, count the votes. Finally, I hate losing. Sports Arena in Alexandria. That's 6 months!

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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 ).

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Elected officials and attorneys, who took oaths to uphold the state constitution, understandably wish to tread carefully. 160D-1311 and authorized counties to engage in community development and act as housing authorities. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.”

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. ," (2013) Civic assets as a network The "change isn't that simple" entry discusses multiple cities with wide-ranging anchor project development with branding similarities to the "Signature Streets" proposal.