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5527
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Entire issue's focus is on land-use planning in Western North Carolina.
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5538
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As university campuses grow, they often endanger archaeological value, both on campus and in bordering areas. To prevent this, a university needs a preservation plan that manages sites of historical significance for the benefit of the university and surrounding communities.
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Colleges and universities often play an important role in the economic development of a region. For example, Davidson College entered a partnership with a local developer to create a subdivision in which faculty and staff homes could be built.
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In 1986, Richmond County Schools and Richmond Community College initiated Tech Prep, a course of study for students interested in such technical careers as drafting and nursing. High school courses prepared students for continued study at the college.
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The Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has grown from a modest beginning into one of the nation's leading schools of planning.
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The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted in 1977 to deter redlining, the practice of excluding minority, inner-city and low-income communities from access to credit. Warren studies the CRA's use and its effect in North Carolina.
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The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, the purpose of which was to bring persons with disabilities under the protection of the Fair Housing Act and to promise them equal housing opportunity, has been appreciated slowly in NC communities.
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A study by the author evaluates NC financial institutions' lending to minority and low-income households. Skillern proposes using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements to gauge an institution's lending performance and to detect racial bias in lending.
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Passage of the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) gave NC a much greater role in planning and funding transportation projects. However, Bonk argues that the Department of Transportation's handling of ISTEA has been limiting.
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A marriage of environmental concerns and economic development goals, along with input from community groups, was instrumental in creating the Riverfront Plan for revitalizing the French Broad River and Asheville's Riverfront.
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What impact a merger of Durham County and the city of Durham would bring is uncertain. However, it would have an impact on the structure of local government and on who would gain or lose political power.
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Combining landscape planning, land use, and transportation, the city of Raleigh created and implemented a plan to enhance the aesthetic quality of the city's major highway corridors, like U.S. 64E, as a means of projecting a positive image of the city.
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Mapping of Chapel Hill residents' use of the 100 block of East Franklin Street provides such information as numbers of people at noon and sitting preferences. These data enable planners to evaluate street usage.
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Charlotte's Neighborhood Matching Grants Fund seeks to improve the city's quality of life through matching grants to qualified neighborhood organizations for projects that would improve the area's living, working, playing, and shopping.
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Older neighborhoods can lose their identities through traffic problems or land use changes, for example. The city of Raleigh seeks to preserve identities through resident-designed conservation zoning districts.
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