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Topic: Economic Development

12.19.2007 In DC Successful Economic Development, too little Community and Human Development
11.09.2007 Make Jobs/Economic Development an Issue!
1.03.2007 Create a Program other than "A Way to Work" located on H St NE. that employs young men and women who have not been able to find work.
12.29.2006 Vocational Training at the District's Oak Hill Detention Facility
12.26.2006 Rebuilding Communiting Using Time Banking Combined With a Virtual Time Dollar Store
5.06.2006 Economic and Youth Development(JOBS)
5.05.2006 alternative energy sources for new buildings
5.05.2006 Everyone can buy their own home.
5.05.2006 DC's New Fashion District
5.05.2006 Take advantage of our riverfront
5.05.2006 Establish New York Avenue NE Corridor as Enterprise Zone
5.05.2006 DC Farmers' Market=DC's Warehouse District
5.05.2006 A New UDC at an old RFK
5.05.2006 Create a combined Central Library, City Museum and Visitors Center
5.05.2006 Lack of affordable housing
5.05.2006 UDC-Centered Economic Development
5.05.2006 Have Developers Contribute to Low-Income Housing
5.05.2006 The DC Connector
5.05.2006 SAVE AND RESTORE McMILLAN SAND FILTRATION SITE
5.05.2006 Make Georgetown fun again by turning M Street into a broad pedestrian walkway, like they have in Barcelona or Munich or other European cities.
5.05.2006 Embracing Regional Solutions to Regional Social Services Problems
5.05.2006 FRESH START FOR THE HOMELESS
5.05.2006 THE (ALLSTATE) SMALL BUSINESS PIONEER PROGRAM
5.05.2006 DC Waterfront Property required to be mixed-use Development
5.05.2006 A Major New 'Industry' for DC: the Science of Living and Dying in America
5.05.2006 Expand D.C. to Its Natural Boundaries
5.05.2006 Integrate ex-offenders into DC's social and economic networks by pairing them with cross-class teams of mentors
5.05.2006 Expansion of UDC to Two Additional Campuses
5.04.2006 GREEN DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX
5.04.2006 City Improvement Through Land Reclamation
5.04.2006 Rolling Rock
5.03.2006 Make The Old Cenvention Ceneter Site a Muti-Purpose Cummuntity
5.03.2006 save gas, stay healthy, reduce trafic and air polution. Include showers in all new DC office buildings.
5.03.2006 Blueprint for a Better Region
5.02.2006 The Anacostia River Crossing @ South Capitol Street
5.02.2006 Pimp My Street
5.02.2006 Vocational Schools
5.01.2006 Solve DC's population decline
4.29.2006 Sell Reeves Municipal Building
4.29.2006 Stop the Disposition of Public Property - Use Public Property for Community Development
4.28.2006 Urban Renewal to Benefit Neighborhoods (URBN)
4.27.2006 Stop Blocking Sidewalks During Construction
4.25.2006 Revitalizing Homes for the Middle Class in DC
4.24.2006 Vending Kiosks and small shops in the Metro Rail stations
4.24.2006 Incent Accessory Units in New Townhouse Construction and Rowhouse Rehabilitation
4.24.2006 Homeowners can be capable workers - let them work on their own houses
4.24.2006 Can create new companies and good paying jobs based on the research conducted at its universities
4.24.2006 It's a Beautiful Day in the (Black) Gayborhood (or, We Don't Do Bette Midler).
4.24.2006 A Neighborhood Gateway for Shaw
4.24.2006 Bring more families back to DC by offering a $5,000 per child local tax credit.
4.21.2006 Starbucks in Metro
4.21.2006 Reclaim 'Dupont Underground' space
4.20.2006 Solving DC's Problems: A Five-Pronged Approach
4.20.2006 Increase Parking in Mid-City to support a thriving business community- tear down the Reeves Building and erect a multi-story garage.
4.20.2006 Allow buildings to exceed present height limits if they meet "Green" building standards.
4.20.2006 Lower sales taxes to invite more retail business.
4.19.2006 It's Time to Break the Taboo and Pay High School Students
4.19.2006 Creating room for the creative classes
4.19.2006 Working Together For The Common Good of All Men
4.18.2006 Growing the Arts Locally
4.18.2006 Citizen's Technical Committee
4.18.2006 Metro bus improvement suggestion which encourages people to explore the city and support more businesses while significantly decreasing traffic congestion and pollution.
4.18.2006 Getting kids off the streets and selling drugs.
4.18.2006 College growth fund for low income residents
4.18.2006 Improving the District of Columbia's Workforce so that the City can Better Resolve its Continuing Issues
4.18.2006 A Simpler Solution - "Improvement Day"
4.18.2006 Uplifting D.C. Residents
4.17.2006 Apply Strategies of the 1930's Works Progress Administration To Address Chronic Unemployment Among Poor DC Residents Due to Lack of Skills or Work Readiness
4.17.2006 (Housing in DC): There should be camunities spread all over the city-rental with option to BUY. Helps poor to become homeowners in DC.
4.15.2006 Sponsor DC University Technology Research, and Fund Local New Business Startups to Create Productive Jobs, at the Expense of Plantation-like Padded City Bureaucracies
4.14.2006 Departments of Economic and Communtiy Development
4.14.2006 Improving DC Libraries
4.12.2006 Property Tax Reform Reduces Blight While Creating More Affordable Housing and More Jobs
4.12.2006 Start Changing the Rules
4.10.2006 DC needs a mural program like Philly!
4.10.2006 Billions of Bridges
4.10.2006 Increase citizen participation in our government
4.10.2006 Give young people an alternative to high school and college with an expansive technical/trade education system that meshes with an apprenticeship program upon graduation.
4.10.2006 Beautifying the D.C. area and increasing community participation through an art competition to design new manhole covers in the D.C. area
4.10.2006 Affordable Home-ownership for all classes.
4.10.2006 Enclosed mall on F and G streets, from 9th to 15th streets
4.09.2006 An Improved Housing Model: Mixed-Income, Affordable Housing That Builds Strong Communities
4.09.2006 Break Height Cap/Build More Affordable Housing
4.09.2006 Mixed Land Use
4.08.2006 A Good Plan for the City, Clean and Simple.
4.08.2006 Rewrite the DC Income Tax Code to give credits for responsible urban choices
4.07.2006 Charge the right price for parking to reduce traffic congestion, improve retail access, and invest in communities.
4.07.2006 Build Airsides "D", "E" and "F" for Reagan National Airport at Bolling AFB, w/ Elevated or Submerged "People Mover" or Tram Tunnel Across Potomac
4.07.2006 Directory of Development and Planning Agencies
4.07.2006 Incentives and funding for business owners to help men and women returning home from prison.
4.05.2006 Develop Federal Rooftops for NGOs
4.05.2006 Create a beatiful city park on the site of the old convention center!
4.05.2006 Restaurant Tax Credit
4.05.2006 Expand access to higher education by building a higher education center East-of-the-River and creating a need-based financial aid program.
4.04.2006 Creating a Nonprofit Incubator for DC
4.04.2006 The Capital and Hi-Rise Development
4.03.2006 A Grocery Store in Ward 8.
4.02.2006 How to meet school safety and security concerns, create jobs amd improve MPD candidate pool.
3.31.2006 Financial incentives for liquor store owners to convert their stores to uses beneficial to the community
3.31.2006 Rent Control brings people in
3.31.2006 Re-unify the city, make it more liveable and increase revenues without displacing anyone at all ever.
3.31.2006 A Much Needed Change Reshaping the Way People live in the District of Columbia
3.30.2006 Streamline District Government by Reducing Bureaucracy and Clerical Overhead by 20% of Total Workforce - Apply Savings to Help Furloughed Workers Create New Productive Jobs
3.30.2006 Cover RFK Stadium and Convert it into a Clean Green High Tech Industrial Park for 21st Century Sustainable Manufacturing Industries: "The Anacostia Industrium"
3.30.2006 Require District Power Plants to Burn All Municipal Solid Waste & Sewage Sludge Made in DC as Green Fuels & Reduce PEPCO Bills by Net
3.30.2006 Impose a commuter tax
3.29.2006 The District's schoolteachers, police officers, and firefighters must be able to live a middle-class life
 

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