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    Symposium Announced Recognizing 100th Anniversary of City’s Zoning Resolution

    Continuing Legal Education  •  New York City Bar Association
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    Image credit: New York City Bar Association

    A centennial symposium will celebrate the Nation’s first comprehensive zoning resolution: Leaders will look to past and future impact of zoning on the shaping of better cities. The Department of City Planning, in partnership with the New York City Bar Association, announced an all-day symposium titled Zoning at 100: A Symposium for the Future to take place on September 15, 2016. The symposium marks the 100th anniversary of the City’s Zoning Resolution which, when established in 1916, was the Nation’s first comprehensive regulation controlling land use and development.

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    Tags : Carl Weisbrod, City Planning Commission, City’s Zoning Resolution, David Karnovsky, Gifford Miller, Jerold Kayden, Maurice Cox, New York City Bar Association, NYC Zoning Resolution, zoning resolution
    Date:09/01/2016
    Category : Department Of City Planning
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    New York’s Constitutional Convention Vote: Hit or Stand?

    Cover Article by Michael Twomey
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    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins

    In 2017, along with voting for mayor, council members, and other elected officials, the voters of New York will be asked to answer “Yes “or “No” to this question:  “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” Every twenty years, the New York State constitution requires that the voters of the State be given the option to call a constitutional convention for revising and amending the New York State constitution – a generational opportunity to consider the State’s governing document and how well we are governed.

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    Tags : Common Cause New York, Constitutional Convention, Gerald Benjamin, Governor Mario Cuomo, League of Women Voters, Michael A. Cardozo, New York City Bar Association, New York Public Interest Research Group
    Date:12/14/2015
    Category : CityLaw
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