• Public Hearing Notice

    Seeking Input On Application To Hud For Preservation And Reinvestment Initiative For Community Enhancement (Price) Competition May 16, 2024, At 6pm Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (Vhcb) Offices 58 East State Street; Montpelier, Vt 05602 Vermont to Apply for $15M in Federal Funding to Support eligible Manufactured Housing Communities (MHC's) The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) is preparing to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...

  • Chinese Cities Face Sinking Risk Due to Development and Groundwater Use

    Recent satellite data underscores a growing environmental challenge for China: significant land subsidence threatening urban areas.

  • Seattle City Council rejects land use exception to address affordable housing

    (The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council has rejected a bill intended to offer zoning incentives for up to 35 redevelopments that partner with local nonprofits to boost housing in displaced neighborhoods. Council Bill 120750 would have established a term-limited, pilot program that would have given community-led affordable housing developments the ability to build larger or denser residential projects than the city’s land use code would otherwise allow. The bill was...

  • Heart of the City: Work to repair granite paving in flagship city centre development to take up to two months

    Work is underway to re-lay new granite paving in a flagship city centre development - but it could take two months. Workers are replacing a swathe of asphalt on Wellington, Cambridge and Charles streets that appeared after cobbles were torn up to run pipes to a new food hall on Cambridge Street. Readers voiced dismay at how it was left in October. In March, Sean McClean, director of regeneration and development at Sheffield Council, said he shared people’s frustrations at the six-month wait to...

  • Youngstown City Council hears requests from the community

    Karen Schubert, leader of Loop Youngstown, is looking to open an arts and culture center in the city after the community lost the Ward Bakery building.

  • Estellencs to buy Son Fortuny for public use

    The Sony Fortuny estate dates back to 1517 and the 320-hectare property accounts for a quarter of the territory of Estellencs. It includes extensive forests, olive groves and a large complex of historic buildings. Importantly, the town’s water supply comes from a natural spring originating on the property. This runs in places a very picturesque […]

  • Public hearing for Shawnee Co. solar and wind farms

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee County Planning Commission will consider a wind energy ban and a one-year solar energy moratorium. At 6 p.m. on Monday, May 13, a public hearing will be held at the East Wing of the Great Overland Station at 701 N Kansas Ave. “This public hearing process is a very important []

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    British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces

    Province says people who don't pose threat to public safety will not be

  • Chemung Co. Department of Aging holds public hearing

    ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) - The Chemung County Department of Aging and Long Term Care held a public hearing April 25, 2024. Speakers spoke extensively on scams targeting older people, end of life care and setting up wills and finalizing healthcare proxies. Speakers also discussed the Older Americans Act of1965, and the New York State Elder []

  • House adds $10M to budget with public safety amendment

    The consolidated amendment addresses training needs for police, fire and other public safety departments across Massachusetts.

  • Public Hearing Considers New Rule for Election Observers

    State elections commission consulted local election clerks, poll workers, political parties.

  • EPA announces new regulations for Public Water Systems

    On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a rule setting enforceable maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) in drinking water for five per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS. The EPA concluded that there is no level of exposure for two of the compounds, PFOS and PFOA, without risk of harm to human health. The EPA set