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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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This article describes the motivations of investors, the obstacles to attracting investment to preservation ventures, public development needs addressed by preservation, financing tools available for housing rehabilitation, and the benefits of public-private partnerships for increasing investment in such ventures.
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The importance of homeownership is deeply embedded in our society. Public officials herald the virtues of homeownership and have developed policies to increase homeownership for low- and moderate-income households. As a result, there are many publicly-sponsored homeownership programs operating in communities throughout the country, including North Carolina.
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The planning procedures involved in providing transportation within urbanized areas have undergone major transformations. Transportation efficiency and clean air acts require administrators to develop public involvement processes. To meet these requirements, the Greensboro Department of Transportation has changed their approach towards public involvement through the development of innovative concepts.
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National transportation focus has shifted to more integrated approaches of developing transportation systems that support parking policies, bicycle paths, and transit-oriented development. With greater emphasis on transit and non-automobile modes of transportation, professionals are challenged to explore more cost-effective, efficient approaches to deliver transit service and integrate various modes. One such North Carolina community, Winston-Salem is investigating improvements through the implementation of advanced communication and information technologies.
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