Cities Look to Form Park District
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 5--CAMAS -- Plans are rolling to form a Camas-Washougal Metropolitan Park District and raise $20 million to $30 million to build a new community center to serve eastern Clark County.   The vote probably will come in the Aug.
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By TOM BEAL, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The city of Tucson wants to give urban neighborhoods a chance to create their own zoning rules - a tool it hopes will protect the character of residential areas as it tries to repopulate and redevelop older parts of town.
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Cities across the country are building new convention centers, or adding to old ones, with an eye for distinctive designs and amenities.
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Automated garages are catching on in the New York City area as traditional surface parking lots are being gobbled up as sites for new buildings.
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By Paula King, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 11--As Antioch continues to deal with code enforcement, rental properties and blighted areas, Oakley city leaders are now preparing to tackle similar issues in their city.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 12--MINNESOTA   Five federal recreation areas on northern Minnesota lakes could be managed as state parks under a proposal being negotiated by state and federal officials.   Under the plan, the U.S.
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By TOM DAYKIN  A $70 million development proposed for the Park East area won approval Monday from a County Board committee, but only after supervisors voted to add a new level to the county's approval process for such proposals.
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Rose Kennedy Greenway planners are launching an architectural competition for the first building expected to be completed along the new, post-Big Dig park system, and city officials hope it will signal the emergence of a &quot;New Boston.&quot;
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By The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Sep. 6--In Panama City Beach, it seems buildings are either coming or going. Except some aren't going fast enough.  Aggressive development has led to two types of eyesores.
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By JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ Journal Staff Writer  The final design for a South Valley park that would serve as a welcoming gateway to the neighborhood was unveiled Wednesday night, moving the project into the next phase -- figuring out how to pay for it.
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By Laura Oppenheimer, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Sep. 4--Parks supporters will make the case this fall that drinking clean  water, trekking through the forest and watching animals play are as valuable  as traditional government services competing for money on Portland-area  ballots.
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By Steve Reilly, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Feb. 6--PUNTA GORDA -- With the city's goal of encouraging more retail  and other commercial growth downtown, the Community Redevelopment Agency board  will decide Wednesday whether the city's "in-lieu-of-parking" fee is too high.
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More cities create skate parks for the street skaters among their population
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Dec. 19--Members of the Emmaus High School skateboarding club, and East Penn's top administrator, wish one of the five municipalities in the school district would create a public skateboard park.
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CHICAGO Interpublic Group has a history of merging agencies, whether it be big players like last year&#39;s merger of Draft and Foote, Cone & Belding, or smaller properties, like Atlanta shops Austin Kelley and Fitzgerald + Co. in 2005. Sometimes, like in the combination of Ammirati Puris Lintas and Lowe, the road is rough. Other transitions go more smoothly.
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On Monday, the mayor made the latest in a series of proposals intended to help the city cope in an environmentally sound way with the one million new residents expected by 2030.
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By Tim Stanley World Staff Writer  Gateways to make inviting markers for downtown, officials say.