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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"public meeting"”.
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Participatory GIS for growth management in the Cheat Lake planning district of Monongalia County, West Virginia
… can be an effective methodology for collecting public input in local land use planning and smart growth management. PGIS-based approaches provide residents with an opportunity to discuss and map their priority land use issues and to identify land use hotspots in a way that is not typically …
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Relationality and Reciprocity in Civic Design: Public Engagement and Offshore Wind Development in the Gulf of Maine
… are fostered through the civic design of public engagements for offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine. Through qualitative analysis of public meeting transcripts – using thematic coding and memo writing in Atlas.ti – this study identifies civic design elements and recurring …
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Developing A Multi-Purpose Trail System At Pomme De Terre Lake
… determined. The preliminary study consisted of meetings with United States Army Corps of Engineers as well as state, county, local officials, and user groups. A public meeting was conducted during the course of this study. This study confirmed the need and projected economic feasibility for the …
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Planning Gone Hog Wild: Mega-Hog Farm in a Mountain West County
… qualitative study used interviews, observations, public meeting minutes, and other written sources of data to evaluate whether or not a rural, western community, Beaver County, Utah, was able to successfully plan for one of the largest hog operations in the United States. The evidence suggested …
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Everyday Exclusions And Empowerment: Social Identities In Neighborhood Associations
… observations of neighborhood association meetings in the City of St. Louis, Missouri during 2008-2009; 31 semi-structured interviews with neighborhood association leaders, members, and city employees during the spring and summer of 2009; and document analysis of association materials such …
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Where virtual meets reality : empowering the public with tangible and digital vision building tools
… organizations that strive to incorporate the public's ideas into designs and plans have needed more appropriate tools for vision sharing. This thesis described one possible approach for improving the public's ability to design, share, and evaluate alternatives. In the past, the public's …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
… many of these perceptions never make it into the public meeting, nor onto the abstract maps and renderings that planners and designers frequently employ. This thesis seeks to show that cinematic practice, or the production of subjective, immersive film narratives, can incorporate highly …
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Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities
<p>Public participation is at the heart of democracy and of the environmental justice movement. Most state-level environmental justice policies and regulations focus on improving public participation within administrative processes to ensure that communities have a voice in the environmental …
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Alternative Methods and Forums to Optimize Public Participation in the Planning Process
“Public participation” takes on various forms in the realm of local government planning. Many planners stand behind the ideal of involving community, but participation in practice often fails to achieve this objective. The primary vehicle for local government participation is the public hearing, …
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Public School Board Governance Practices in Western Pennsylvania and AYP Scores; Is There a Relationship?
… to members of the following types of public school boards: urban, suburban, rural, and charter. Smoley's survey measures six dimensions of effectiveness: Decision Making, Functioning as a Group, Exercising Authority, Connecting to the Community, Working Toward Board Improvement, and …
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An Examination of an Environmental Change in Beverages Available to High School Students in Santa Maria, California on Their Consumption Behavior
… in 2003 and 2004. The innovative study and publicized negotiated soda contract of a 50<strong>:</strong>50 (healthy to unhealthy) beverage ratio stipulation became the “Win-Win-WEAN” compromise, in which exposure to healthier beverage options for students might prove to provide the same …
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No Margin for Error: Driving the East Shore of Flathead Lake
Tanner, Deborah Brae, M.A., Fall 2009 Journalism, Print No Margin for Error: Driving the East Shore of Flathead Lake Chairperson: Nadia White Controversy currently surrounds truck traffic on the east shore of Flathead Lake, Highway 35. The design, age and surrounding geography of the road …
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No Margin for Error: Driving the East Shore of Flathead Lake
Tanner, Deborah Brae, M.A., Fall 2009 Journalism, Print No Margin for Error: Driving the East Shore of Flathead Lake Chairperson: Nadia White Controversy currently surrounds truck traffic on the east shore of Flathead Lake, Highway 35. The design, age and surrounding geography of the road …