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Regional Community News - January 9, 2004
"Community precedes cooperation. Regional community makes regions work."
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1. SUSTAINABLE development ought to be started now - Taipei Times, Taiwan
The Executive Yuan's National Council for Sustainable Development has designated 2003 as the first year of Taiwan's national sustainable development. The organization worked out a Taiwan Sustainable Development Action Plan last year, listing more than 100 policies and measures that Taiwan must adopt in order to achieve sustainable development. It stipulates that the government needs to revise Agenda 21, which was drafted in the spring of 1999, and reformulate an Agenda 21 of Taiwan: National Sustainable Development Strategy Guidelines. At the same time, it has to assist local governments to draw up blueprints for local sustainable development....
... Emergency workers from Farmington and West Hartford evacuated the C-wing of the mall while Newington firefighters staged nearby as part of a multi-town response plan developed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2003 attacks.... Following the terrorist attacks, Whalen has been working as part of the Capitol Region Emergency Planning Committee, an offshoot of the Capitol Region Council of Governments, to coordinate emergency responses between towns in the event of a major disaster. "The idea was to form a regional disaster plan," Whalen said.
TORY MPs representing rural constituencies are furious that planning powers on on the countryside are to be taken away
from local councils and dealt with in Whitehall. ... "My council Suffolk Coastal understands the needs of the people it serves, whereas the Deputy Prime Minister, who represents Hull, cannot possibly have knowledge of local sensitivities or the
environment of the area. ...
The City Council voted Monday night to continue its financial commitment to building a regional
water supply. With a vote of 7-0, the council agreed to pay more than $1.5 million by the end of
the month to the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority, a group of six local governments
including High Point that is building the 3,000-acre lake as a water source. ...
5. (User survey to access article) Racine County says it can't afford water study - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
Racine County has been asked to contribute $60,000 to a regional water study, but the county's top official says
taxpayers can't afford the bill. ... The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission had hoped to launch the three-year study within the next two months, but it's unclear how it would be conducted without all funding....
A proposed three-lot subdivision in an unincorporated area near Alpine could eliminate parts of three trails and
public access to mountains, says the chairman of the city's Trails Committee.... Jim Price, trail planner for the
Mountainland Association of Governments, wrote a letter in support of preserving the trails to the county Planning
Commission. ...
7. IMPACT committee sends growth projections to council - New Mexico Business Weekly, NM
... Called land use assumptions, the projections define a range of growth
forecasts, developed by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG),
and are critical ...
8. Every Region needs a Champion - LONGTIME mayor Leo Rooff dies today - Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA
... was a champion of intergovernmental cooperation and played a key role in the foundation and continuation
of the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments. ...
For Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens, life these days is a delicate juggling act.Every day, even moment to moment, Olens, 46, is balancing the demands of a heavy public schedule with his commitment to family life, the needs of his county with the needs of a 10-county metro Atlanta region, and the political challenges of elected office with the hard decisions of leadership....
10. COUNTY joins desert posse in get-tough desert dust operation - San Jose Mercury News, CA
... We can't make it work unless they all work together," said Aurora Kerr, air quality specialist for
.... The project began in Fremont County in 1999 when Upper Arkansas Area Council of Governments and
United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development ...
If Marion County wants even a taste of the state's new economic development pie, it better get somebody to the table as quickly as possible. ... Stan Thiessen of Hillsboro, development coordinator with the South Central Kansas Economic Development District, said the state-as well as other counties-is quickly moving to a regional-partnership model for distributing its development resources. In addition to the seven economic regions already developed within the state, including SCKEDD, Thiessen said counties are also forming smaller alliances of three to five counties based on similar interests....
... officials who previously resisted the idea have reconsidered their position, in part because of financial difficulties faced
by both city and county governments ...
The Denver Regional Council of Governments claims that cities and counties in metro Denver are shortchanged on
highway funds by the Colorado Transportation ...
20. INTERSTATE-TURNPIKE link OK'd - Trenton Times, NJ
... The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the region's federally designated planning organization, last year readied $146 million to start design ...
21. For Public Policy, History, Science and other non-fiction books presented by the authors in non-commercial broadcasts,
check www.BookTV.org for the Saturday and Sunday schedules. Also check www.CSPAN.org Available by cable, satellite
or over your PC.
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"Think globally, act locally." - That was an innovative paradigm in its time. The problem is
that the local sale is too small for today's problems. "Think local planet, act regionally," is a
new paradigm. Regional community acts to avoid the tragedy of the commons.
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