Delray Beach CRA: Community Sponsorship Grant Program The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency approved new guidelines for its Community Sponsorship Grant Program, which offers annual contributions to local community organizations, at the regular meeting held on Thursday May 26th. The Community Sponsorship Program, which offers grants up to $1,500 a year for programs in the…
DetailsULI North Florida – Infrastructure 2011 Tallahassee Event Start Date: 06/09/2011 11:30 am Event End Date: 06/09/2011 2:00 pm Locations: FSU Turnbull Center – Tallahassee Address: 555 W Pensacola St Tallahassee, FL , UNITED STATES (map) Infrastructure 2011 – Tallahassee A Strategic Priority Guest Speakers Sunil Harman, Director, Department of Aviation, City of Tallahassee Tom…
DetailsRetrofitting suburbia: the state of the art via New Urban Network In today’s difficulty economy, three published new urbanist practitioners look at how to get projects going — in the suburbs or elsewhere. On June 1, at CNU 19 in Madison, Wisconsin, an in-depth “202” session will feature a discussion of innovative sprawl retrofit solutions…
DetailsFlorida Growth Management in the New Era- A Guide to Understanding Florida’s New Legislation Akerman, in conjunction with the ULI SE Florida/Caribbean and the Florida Redevelopment Association, will host a discussion on the sweeping changes to Florida’s Growth Management laws, approved by the 2011 Legislature. The Community Planning Act radically alters the comprehensive planning process,…
DetailsPartnership: St. Augustine and St. Johns County Case Study for Shared Success This case study highlights the Board of County Commissioners long-term commitment to growth as they established Vilano Beach as a Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) with Tax Increment Financing, which allows the CRA to use growth in real property tax revenues to reinvest within…
Details2011 Growth Management Bill & Conference Committee Report There’s some confusion about which bill actually passed. Below are links to the bill (this is actually the “strike-all” amendment to one of the budget conforming bills and growth management amendments) as well as bullet points describing what is in it (scroll down to “conference Committee summary”…
DetailsDixieland Community Redevelopment: Dixieland Alley Improvement Projects The alleyway system in the Dixieland Redevelopment Area is an important network that, if properly utilized, can provide both vehicular and pedestrian access to businesses, relieving traffic pressure on South Florida Avenue. City staff initiated an alley survey to consolidate all information regarding alley conditions in the Dixieland CRA. …
DetailsWhat Attaches People to Their Communities? What makes a community a desirable place to live? What draws people to stake their future in it? Are communities with more attached residents better off? Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation launched the Knight Soul of the Community project in 2008 with these questions…
DetailsLakeland CRA: Developers’ Corner – Electric Utility Deposits There are many costs involved in opening or moving a business or office location. One of the costs that sometimes catches business owners by surprise is the electric utility deposit necessary to set up service in the new location. We spoke with David Kus, Assistant General Manager Customer Service, at Lakeland…
DetailsRecruiting business is fine, but put a little more love in your city, too What if economic development groups spent as much time and energy recruiting creative and committed individuals — people who love cities, people who make things happen — as they do trying to relocate corporations? This may sound like heresy to business…
DetailsPerspectives on Urban Sustainability Sustainability is the capacity to endure, and the capacity for humanity to endure is being tested on a global scale. Population is exploding and becoming increasingly urbanized. It took more than 10,000 generations for the planet to reach two billion humans in the middle of the last century. But someone born…
DetailsLittlejohn Engineering Associates (LEA), a leading Nashville, TN engineering, planning, environmental services, landscape architectural and survey firm has acquired Land Design Innovations (LDI) of Orlando, FL. LDI specializes in municipal planning, economic and redevelopment services, civil engineering and landscape architecture and has a rich 12 year history of quality service to clients in the municipal…
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