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Nance has held planning positions in Gastonia and Winston-Salem. Currently she is president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association. She discusses her role as chapter president and her views on present and future challenges facing planners in the state.
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28897
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The Biennium Plan is an important tool that guides the North Carolina Arts Council in developing programs and funding arts projects which address the needs stated in the plan. Presented is an outline of the Council’s plan for 1989-1991, showing suggestions for ways to accomplish the objectives.
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30946
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This article demonstrates ways in which Planners can redirect policy goals and visions toward a more equitable form of economic development. Three examples are given of ways planners are promoting living wage standards, job-centered training opportunities and legacy industries.
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31060
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A growing number of North Carolina's cities, towns, and counties plan their development and growth through organizations. Community planning programs development plans and arrange solutions for growth problems, and are provided funding through Federal and state governmental grants such as the Housing and Home Finance Agency or the Division of Community Planning of the State Department of Conservation and Development.
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31157
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Through a collaboration between the town of Wentworth, the local historic society and Rockingham County, a recently vacant historic courthouse was repurposed into a county museum and archive.
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31207
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The Moore Square Museums Magnet Middle School is the first public school to win the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement. The school's design places it in Proximity to museums and other cultural institutions that may be utilized for daily curriculum.
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31209
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An interview with Chapel Hill Planning Director Roger Waldon, is the beginning of a series of interviews with NC planning professionals which will aim to offer insight into how planning takes shape ina variety of professional contexts.
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31210
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Lead Regional Organizations (LRO's) are voluntary organizations of city and county government partnerships with the goal of solving mutual As a survey of LRO's in North Carolina, this article predicts the roles these types of partnerships will carry as planning projects are implemented throughout the eighties.
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31211
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Ducker surveys state legislation that impacts planning activities in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia. Legislative topics range from, Housing, zoning and building codes to energy issues and radioactive waste disposal.
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31213
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The author examines local responses to changes in economic growth and capital mobility by addressing differences in distinctly local styles of economic development planning. Capital mobility refers to the movement of industry to an area experiencing local economic growth, in the face of a current economically declining locale.
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Explained by this local historian, whose work experience included museums and a library, were reasons for the layout of streets in Fayetteville. She concluded the layout can be confusing for even town natives. What was easier for her to explain were name origins for roadways such as Green Street and Ottis F. Jones Parkway.
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