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Oct 8, 2024 · The U.S. Forest Service recently announced a hiring freeze for seasonal staff and announced it won’t be hiring external candidates for any position within the agency in the 2025 fiscal year, according to an article from High Country News, in collaboration with Vox.

Nov 20, 2024 · A former golf club in Las Vegas will be redeveloped into the largest affordable housing project in Nevada history, reports Christian Hudspeth for KTNV.. The project is being kickstarted by a $25 million loan from the State Infrastructure Bank.

Woonerf. The woonerf, a type of road design that encourages multimodal transportation and blends pedestrian and vehicle space, was born as a reaction to the car-centric development that began dominating American and European city planning in the mid-twentieth century.

Oct 3, 2024 · The recent dockworkers strike along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, which halted operations at over 30 seaports and disrupted nearly half of the country’s shipments, is a stark reminder of the fragility of global supply chains. As port congestion intensifies and labor unrest threatens, industry leaders increasingly focus on automation as a long-term solution to mitigate such disruptions.

The Planning Commissioner Training series from Planetizen Courses offers ten courses on the essentials of citizen planning—everything from planning ethics, comprehensive plans, site plans, approval processes, planning law, zoning, and the essential role of the public in planning.

Mar 12, 2023 · Editor’s note: This blog was updated on September 19, 2024 to reflect 2023 U.S. crime rate data and trends. In 2020, the national homicide rate rose 30 percent.Homicides continued to increase in most cities in 2021, but the tide of violence began to ebb over the last two years.. Naturally, this tragedy has become a political football, and at least two contending narratives have arisen to ...

The term redevelopment is used to describe any project that constructs new buildings, structures, and land uses on a site with previous or existing uses. Redevelopment projects can vary in significance from demolishing old buildings to replace them with new buildings, constructing new buildings or structures on abandoned or previously demolished sites, …

A comprehensive plan is an essential feature of long-term planning for cities and counties all over the United States, as both the process and the documentation for creating a broad, long-term vision for future land uses and the built environment of communities.. A comprehensive plan contains a map of future land uses for an entire planning jurisdiction (like a …

Sep 12, 2001 · Architect Minoru Yamasaki had designed the World Trade Center towers to withstand a colliding jetliner. But 30 years after the construction of the towers, jetliners have grown in size.