Despite the city’s objections, a local business owner appeared in front of the Lewisville City Council on Monday evening to fight for an expansion in parking spaces for his body shop.…
The city of Boulder, Colorado controls urban sprawling by creating a service area boundary. Some pros to this boundary is that it helps limit new construction and population growth. It limits the building of retail areas to within the city limits and sends the message that unincorporated land should not be urbanized. It keeps focus on specific city areas for development, increasing urban renewal and decreasing under-utilization. It establishes a defined area where city utilities and services are available. This also helps services with infrastructure planning. Services such as police, fire, water and sewer, parks and recreation, and transportation can map areas where services will be utilized and for what amount of time.…
San Francisco Police Department could better allocate their resources more effectively if San Francisco adopts Avalos’ policy. The real safety problem with cyclists on the road is that some cyclists race through stop signs. Ignoring stop signs and red lights makes cyclists’ behavior unpredictable to drivers, causing many collisions. If San Francisco legalizes yields at stop signs, police could focus more on cyclists who cause disorder on the road, rather than also targeting cyclists who yield which doesn’t disrupt the traffic order.…
Chapter eight gives a good overview of the models presented in chapters nine, ten, and eleven. The way Entwistle presented five models which he called: “Enemies, Spies, Colonialists, Neutral, and Allies” (2016, p. 135). These five models are formed based on the variety of views that people hold about psychology and theology. Because people hold a variety of orientations in these two fields it creates many combinations of integration. The Enemy model is the view that psychology and theology cannot work together. The Spies model uses which ever orientation is most effective in the moment to promote the individual well-being, which means they are not committed to any certain belief system. Colonialists are strongly influenced by their commitment…
The Presidency as a whole has changed in many ways throughout the course of history; specifically, in the relationship between the president and the public. The Constitution is vague when it describes communication of the president: a president must say why they veto a bill, and they must inform the public on the state of the union (Ellis 82). President George Washington had the task of establishing how the president would interact with the public. During the early days of the presidency the President communicated seldomly with the public; this is because the president was supposed to be held at a higher standard than the public, and they were supposed to communicate with Congress. Washington worked towards having the office of the president…
The City of Kelsey government, a strong mayor structure (mayor-council government), must play a developmental role in the community. The Mayor is responsible for assessing the needs of the community and presenting recommended plan to the City Council. The Mayor and the City Council recognize that with a population of 625,000, the city will continue…
I would have an intense investigation on the money issues that has caused the city council to start looking at ways to save money. I would send a reporter to talk to each council person to obtain any information into the current expenditures that the city has invoked. There would be a run of the initial story set up on our local news website, which would include a blog box to obtain audience’s feedback and comments. Prior to the city council meeting, I would have run a couple of the stories that the investigating reporters had found and announced the time and place of the city council’s meeting. This way those that are interested in attending will be well informed and those that did not know will know have the ability to participate. One reporter and crew would be assigned to give onsite coverage of the meeting, which could report breaking news on the vote and how it might affect the community. One reporter will man the website giving updated information on the voting and answering any questions that may arise from bloggers.…
Everyone has a role to play in representing our city. I have taken on participating in community service projects and showing…
I would like to start this report off by saying that I have never been to city council meeting before, even though my father was the mayor, and still serves on city council back in my home town of Kingsford, Michigan. I found this experience both interesting and exhausting to see and understand the scope of the council’s role and responsibilities in keeping this city running. All members of council must have to have a very extensive education and background in finance and public administration even in mid-sized city like Colorado Springs. I couldn’t imagine the business required in a major metropolitan city.…
4. What were the Mayor's responsibilities prior to the hurricane? Stock the shelters with food and water, mobilize cities and school buses for evacuation.…
The world is constantly changing. Within all changes there are mixed views and controversy. This happens especially when the topic is about gentrification. According to the article “What is Gentrification?”, gentrification is a term for “the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district”(Grant). Now the concept itself is like a mathematical equation: economic increase plus a safer neighborhood equals a positive reputation. Still, there are those who believe the idea of gentrification produces a negative outcome for the community. Despite the cons to gentrification one should strongly take into consideration the positive effect it leaves in a community. The question now is, why are there residents against the idea, if gentrifying…
What were the Mayor's responsibilities prior to the hurricane? Stock the shelters with food and water. mobilize cities and school buses for evacuation.…
Gentrification happens to most cities at one point or another. It means that investors renovate neighborhoods to make them more appealing to people of the middle and upper classes. In theory gentrification sounds like a positive thing, but in reality it can have a negative effect on the lower class people who inhabited these neighborhoods first. Short writes that every city has projects where very poor people live, often in public housing. The projects often come with crime, food deserts, and a lack of educated men, women, and children. Projects typically exist because the local government group the poor people into one area with public housing, and wealthy people would never feel comfortable living in an area with the lower class.…
Gentrification has been known to be detrimental and good depending on how someone sees it. People, mostly the higher class, have been gentrifying communities for years. Although some people believe gentrification creates more progress than problems, it becomes inimical to poor residents and possibly cause more disagreement between ethnic groups. Gentrification has been seen from both perspectives; however, more often people read the destructive part of gentrification.…
The mayor has not problem taking the gifts. Going by the theory of egoism, one’s happiness matters most (Kant, 2012). The mayor can only because if he gives unmerited tenders and contracts. If the people got their contracts on merit, then there is no problem mayor being gifted. However, it should be noted that such gifts if persistence may corrupt one's morality. On the other hand, the college instructors should not be giving her student's similar exams every time and gain. This does not signify her developments regarding her curricular delivery and test. When presented with similar questions, the student would tell the rest of the students so that they can only revise they exams they are sure will be set. This depicts the lack of professionalism…