Land Use

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• Exploring Sustainable Tourism in Tuscon for a Greener Holiday

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 471
  Looking for a green holiday destination? Let me suggest Tucson, Arizona, and its environs as a fine venue for eco-adventures. What, you didnt think of Tucson as a focal point for sustainable tourism?
  5 hours ago

• Oral Argument Preview, Part II: Hawaii Supreme Court Considers Whether A Change In "Context," But Not The Project, Triggers A Supplemental EIS

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 468
  This is Part II of our preview of the oral arguments in Unite Here! Local 5 v. City and County of Honolulu , the case in which the IntermediateCourt of Appeals held that unless the project changes, a supplementalEIS is not required under the Hawaii Environmental Policy Act, Haw.Rev. Stat. ch. 343. In this post, we ...
  6 hours ago

• CEQA thresholds of significance for greenhouse gas emissions: a strange but good process

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 425
  Way back in the old days, before 2006 and AB 32 (California’s landmark law limiting greenhouse gas emissions statewide), the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was the critical tool to limit greenhouse gas emissions from projects around the state.  CEQA is the law that requires state and local agencies ...
  13 hours ago

• Chelan County Considering Regulation of Vacation Rentals in Manson

  
  GoLakeChelan's Chelan Real Estate Blog — Authority: 127
  The Chelan County Commission is considering regulation of vacation rentals within the Manson SubArea.  The process being discussed is to require an annual permit.  An annual permit would have to be renewed each year and any conditions of the permit would be reviewed each time the permit is renewed.  Depending on ...
  15 hours ago

• Air Pollution Borough by Borough

  
  The Wonkster — Authority: 493
  Image provided by the mayors office The Bloomberg administration released its first ever street-level air survey chronicling the air quality in every borough. The survey showed that Manhattan’s high traffic areas have the worst air quality. The survey compiles data, including measurements of particulate ...
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• Calendar. 12.15.09.

  
  C-MONSTER.net — Authority: 514
  This makes me wish I was in L.A. right now. I’ve always been fascinated by the city’s oil derricks beam pumping units. (Thank you, RWB.) Now you can tour them with the Center for Land Use Interpretation — this Friday, Dec. 18th at 12 p.m. Tickets ($30) must be purchased in advance. (Image courtesy of CLUI . ...
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• Beacon Bits: Affordable housing, volunteerism, and our own dive bar

  
  Beacon Hill Blog — Authority: 129
  Customers visit the hot dog cart in front of Beacon Pub, summer 2009. Photo by Jason. It may be a dive, but it’s our dive: The Beacon Pub was featured recently in the Seattle Weekly website’s Dive Bar Advent Calendar . * * * Homestead Community Land Trust is a local nonprofit group, intended to create ...
  2 days ago

• HawaiiOceanLaw.com to liveblog upcoming Hawaii Supreme Court EIS case

  
  Planet Kaua`i — Authority: 420
  HawaiiOceanLaw s Mark Murakami promises to live blog Hawaii Supreme Court oral arguments in Unite Here! Local 5 v. City and County of Honolulu . According to the courts oral argument schedule - [T]his case arises from the proposed expansion of the Kuilima Resort at Turtle Bay on the North Shore of O`ahu for which ...
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• Bloomberg Eyes Danish Offshore Wind Farm and Sees New Yorks Future

  
  City Room — Authority: 786
  Green Inc. reports on Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs ambitions for wind power in New York.
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• Live Blog Of Turtle Bay/Kuilima EIS Case: Is A Change In "Context," But Not The Project, Enough To Trigger Supplemental EIS?

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 468
  Tune in on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. HST for my colleague Mark Murakamis live blog of the Hawaii Supreme Court oral arguments in Unite Here! Local 5 v. City and County of Honolulu , the case in which the IntermediateCourt of Appeals held that unless the project changes, a supplementalEIS is not ...
  2 days ago

• The point of planning

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 536
  (Maybe I am just no fun.) From email: From my favorite cycling forum earlier today: "cities only really come to life when the adults find ways to play in them." I really like that. Is this our job? My response: what I say our job is is to stabilize, maintain, and extend the quality of life for residents, and ...
  3 days ago

• Alameda City Council Members Express Mixed Views on Encinal Zoning Application

  
  ACTION ALAMEDA News — Authority: 132
  By Erica Madison “I’m not one for stealing”, said Council member Matarrese at a Dec. 1, 2009, City Council meeting. Matarrese was referring to a zoning report given by Mr. Goldman. Goldman stood before the City Council on Dec. 1, 2009, as a liaison between the zoning administration and  Encinal warehouse ...
  3 days ago

• Cattle, the ignored climate predator

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 484
  Mario Osava in IPS : Because of its effect on the environment, cattle must be given the same priority in global agendas as nuclear weapons, wars and, in particular, climate change, says Brazilian activist João Meirelles Filho, author of two books on Amazon deforestation. Cattle farming in Brazil is the leading cause ...
  5 days ago

• Landmarked For Being Loosely Linked To Famous Architect?

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 468
  I was reading this article in the San Francisco Chronicle about a dispute over whether a "concrete, flat-roofed Berkeley building [scroll down to the "Mobilized Women of Berkeley" listing] loosely linked to [architect] Bernard Maybeck " could be landmarked. According to the story: The architect whose name is on ...
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• Greenberg Traurig Picks up City Councilwoman Melinda Katz

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 479
  Melinda Katz, a democrat on New York’s city council, has said she will be joining Greenberg Traurig when her current term is up on December 31.  Katz has also served in the New York Assembly, and narrowly lost a bid for Chuck Schumer’s seat in the US House of Representatives when Schumer ran for the Senate.  She ...
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• A Dream Deferred in the Bronx, Now Lost

  
  City Room — Authority: 786
  A fathers plans for a medical center in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, to honor a son lost to leukemia, fall through.
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• Where Rink Now Stands, an Isle Is Planned

  
  City Room — Authority: 786
  In Prospect Parks lake, an island that disappeared nearly 50 years ago beneath a skating rink is to re-emerge, Atlantis-like.
  6 days ago

• Office Depots Campaign to Help Green the Workplace

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 471
  Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working worlds top supplier of eco-friendly office products.
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• Surface Coal Mining : Characteristics of Mining in Mountainous Areas of Kentucky and West Virginia

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 141
  Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1021.pdf [Summary]  Surface coal mining in the mountainous areas of Appalachia—often called “mountaintop mining”—generates controversy, in part because of its scale and the post-mining appearance of the land. Yet there is limited public access ...
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• Second Circuit: To Demolish Dangerous Property Without Notice, Dont Delay

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 468
  In WWBITV, Inc. v. Village of Rouses Point , No. 08-5112 (Dec. 9, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a property owner whose building was demolished the day after it was badly damaged in a fire was not entitled to predeprivation notice. After the building -- an " old hotel " in ...
  1 week ago

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