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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

That March, for example, more than 1,000 people marched from the White House to the U.S. Before the ADA, Public transportation, such as trains, were not required to have handicap access. In the present day, ADA regulations continue to evolve, as advocates push for increased access to all parts of public life.

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Policy Minute: Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing. COYHO is aimed at easing New York City's housing shortage by updating zoning regulations to encourage more housing development across the city.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Supporting health equity with data insights and visualizations using AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

After producing data insights, our role then is to help identify for public health decision makers—which include regulators, legislators, health system executives, pharmaceutical researchers, and more—the factors that contribute to health inequity across areas and across populations.