Panel confirmed for Thursday’s CR local-option tax vote forum. The Great Deluge - Trailer FEMA and Political Corruption. Balls. 09-22-2010.Bulletin. 42 Drake Law Review 1993 Reach of Iowa's Civil Forfeiture Statute: How Far Is Too Far, The Note. Land Confiscated Under Supreme Court Kelo Decision Goes To Waste. {*style:<b>Land Confiscated In "Public Interest" Under Supreme Court Eminent Domain Decision Goes To Waste By A. Kronstadt </b>*} {*style:<b>Suzette Kelo and a group of her New London, Connecticut neighbors had sued the city government to block the demolition of their homes, which were situated in a 90-acre area slated for redevelopment under a private scheme sponsored primarily by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, the centerpiece of which was to be the expansion of Pfizer's research and development facilities, already in operation in nearby Groton, into New London. Real estate money to build additional office complexes and a hotel in the immediate vicinity of their own new offices.
In one section of the development zone. {*style:<b>Central to the logic behind the Supreme Court's rejection of the arguments presented by the attorneys for Ms. And the amount of revenue it was expected to generate for the public good. It would generate 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues. Feral cats. Sasaki. Corridor Recovery. Your Ideas Will Shape Our City’s Future This is the place to check for up-to-date information about the Neighborhood Planning Process, including upcoming events, maps and reports.
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One of the youth involved in the Neighborhood Planning that didn't end up being OUR plan! New life for the riverfront looks likely: The effort welcomes your input, but it doesn’t need your approval this time « Eye on the Island. All eyes once again are on the Cedar River running through downtown.
Only today, there appears to be huge differences from just five years ago — from January 2003, when some of the community’s leaders were excited about a $10.5-million grant the city had won from the state Vision Iowa Board for the RiverRun redevelopment project. Back then, local elected officials, who were required to come up with local matching dollars to obtain the state grant, turned to the public and asked it to pass a local-option sales tax to support the project. The public voted against the tax in June 2003, and RiverRun fell apart. A scaled-down version of the project, Cedar Bend, couldn’t find local financial support, and it, too, had to give up on Vision Iowa money.
It was kind of embarrassing for Cedar Rapids. Wieneke told representatives from one of the firms, Sasaki Associates Inc., Watertown, Mass., that he understood that Cedar Rapids’ corporate community was buying in to the riverfront plan. Harkin: Cedar Rapids flood protection funds could be budget war casualty. HUD Approves Disaster Funding For Quaker Oats Floodwall. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The City Council this week will make it official: They will accept a previously announced award of $9.085 million in federal disaster funds that will allow the city to help build a new flood-protection wall at Quaker Oats just north of downtown to the standard required by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Quaker already has begun the work, but its plans had been to build a wall that provides less protection than called for in the Corps’ plan or the city’s own, more-comprehensive flood-protection plan.
Untitled. Preferred Plan from Parks for Time Check. Preferred by who? Can I see this Preferred Plan. Preferred Plan part 2. You don't really want our input! Cedar Rapids officials go to Time Check to explain why plan is to rebuild flood-ruined rec center in Ellis Park.