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Voting and Campaign Transparency w/ Asm. Sabrina Cervantes

Policy Chats

In this episode, California State Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about election policy and election policies and civic engagement. That means it dilutes the Latino voting power and their capacity to elect a representative of their choice.

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Asm. Sabrina Cervantes: Voting and Campaign Transparency

Policy Chats

In this episode, California State Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about election policy and election policies and civic engagement. That means it dilutes the Latino voting power and their capacity to elect a representative of their choice.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

On Thursday, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who believes too much money is spent on law enforcement and not enough on social services, held a news conference in MacArthur Park to announce several partnerships and social service initiatives. Parks conservancies as more engaged parks managers. Theyre going to try ," LA Daily News ).The

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The Benefits of Participatory Democracy

Social Pinpoint

In order to acknowledge the relevance of public opinion, civic engagement or citizen engagement are increasingly being introduced at the democratic level to promote transparency and openness. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws.

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Welcome to the team, Maurice Classen!

zencity

We’ve welcomed numerous new partner communities across the world, rolled out cutting-edge new features, including the first-ever use case of ChatGPT in local government , and re-launched as the best full-service community engagement platform available for government today. Welcome to the team, Maurice! appeared first on Zencity.

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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

Relatedly, in planning engagements, planners have two responsibilities, simultaneously dealing with "citywide" concerns as laid out in a master or comprehensive land use plan for the community, as well as neighborhood concerns, while residents typically only take responsibility for the latter. The Height Limit discussions.

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v. Housing Authorities Law. Chapter 157).