Fury Over Office Plans at City Park
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By Helen Archer  RESIDENTS are fighting to save a playpark which has been earmarked for the building of an office block as part of a massive redevelopment around the site of the Fountainbridge brewery.
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Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on misleading vocabulary and faulty assumptions. As the D.C. Council considers further action today, here's a business columnist's guide for thinking about the issue:
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By CAROLINE INNES  MORE than 400 Haydock residents gathered to protest against proposals for a recycling plant on green belt land earmarked to become a country park.
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By Ryan Basen, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--Members of Marvin's Parks, Greenway and Recreation Advisory Board are upset with the slow progress of its key project -- establishing public parks and trails.
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The deal to bring baseball back to  Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as  close to dead Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan  to require private financing, a move Major League Baseball  (MLB) called unacceptable.
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The controversial West Side stadium in New York, which would house the New York Jets football team if it does get built, has caused a public row for months.
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Supporters and detractors of a plan to bring baseball to the District are lining up to make their case before the D.C. Council.
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A plan to install bike lanes citywide has met resistance from environmentalists and others who question its wisdom.
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Advocates and opponents of a publicly funded baseball stadium in D.C. say there are big inequities in the details of the business tax that Mayor Williams has proposed.
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A new stadium for Major League Baseball in Washington D.C. will cost around &#36;90 million more than the mayor expects, the city's independent chief financial officer told the City Council Thursday.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 21--A proposal to offset the future loss of Monterey County farmland to development in the proposed county general plan provoked heated protests Wednesday before county planning commissioners.
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Citizens' groups, residents and some  Washington, D.C., councilmen on Tuesday protested Mayor Anthony  Williams' proposed $440 million baseball stadium plan, calling  it a "giveaway" to Major League Baseball.
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Furious over a guerilla marketing gimmick gone awry, city officials vow to recoup emergency response costs.
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By Frederick Melo and Jennifer Bjorhus, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 6--It's all about the parks.   Faced with rising land costs and not enough money to buy parklands, the Metropolitan Council is launching a new fund-raising foundation.
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Bureaucratic delay and red tape can endlessly snarl a building project, even one encouraged by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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It's the mayor's visionary project &#151; or his &#36;1.4 billion boondoggle. It's a boon to construction unions &#151; or the bane of New York's police and firefighters. It will bring the Olympics to New York &#151; or ruin one of the city's great neighborhoods.
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Description: Washington, DC&#39;s City Council has thrown a wicked curveball at plans to attract Major League Baseball&#39;s Expos.