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Take the Lawton Community Needs Survey Today Be a part of the solution. Take the Lawton, Fort Sill community needs survey today. Provide valuable feedback and opinions on what you think the city needs to focus on. The online survey will only take 5-10 minutes of your time and will help shape the future plans of the city and where attention and budgets need to be spent. So whats most important to you? What would you like to see fixed and/or improved? Where should our taxes dollars be spent and o...

Lawton residents given opportunity to voice opinions with Community Needs Survey Lawton residents given opportunity to voice opinions with Community Needs Survey By Tiffany Bechtel | February 17, 2021 at 4:25 PM CST - Updated February 17 at 4:25 PM LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - The City of Lawton and its Housing and Community Development Department have started an online Community Needs Survey that will be available until March 15, 2021. The survey is meant to assess the needs, desires and priori...

This City Club program is the second in a three-part series on local housing issues. From the City Club of Eugene: Oregon’s Legislature took the historic step to re-legalize traditional “missing middle housing” in 2019, but the work to build housing diversity and more inclusive neighborhoods has just begun. One promise of “missing middle housing” is that it can deliver “affordability by design”— that per-unit development costs can come down when we design more efficient housing ...

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record Neeb says land near zoo could become events and educational center The city’s possible purchase of a multi-family residential property near the Spring River Zoo is heading to the Roswell City Council following a 3-1 committee vote. The Legal Committee decided Thursday to forward the decision about the $415,000 purchase agreement to the entire City Council for its consideration at a Feb. 11 meeting. The committee meeting discussion included some concerns ...

Copyright © 2021 Roswell Daily Record The city wants to purchase some property on North Atkinson Avenue adjacent to the Spring River Zoo, and the Roswell City Council Legal Committee is scheduled to discuss the potential deal during its meeting today. Britt Bourque of Roswell said she has owned the multi-unit residential property since about 2007. The property of about 1.24 acres has five residences on it, with four furnished structures that have functioned as short-term rental properties and ...

When Bill Sulzman, 82, noticed people circling his small cottage carrying tape measures, cameras and clipboards last summer and fall, he knew something was up. He didn’t know then, but he’s since found out, that his home for 32 years, for which he pays nominal rent, was sold in October without his knowledge. That sale and others are part of a plan to liquidate many of Ithaka Land Trust’s roughly two dozen rental properties. Most were built 100 or more years ago and were acquired ...

GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Kelly, KDOC seek public input for Broadband Office Grant Program TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly announced that the Kansas Department of Commerce has established an opportunity for the public to learn more about the Office of Broadband Development’s Broadband Acceleration Grant program and provide input on grant requests proposed for communities across Kansas. The goal is to gather public input regarding the grant applications and associated service areas in...

No charges in Qualla Housing probe FBI agents raid the Qualla Housing Authority building in February 2017. Holly Kays photo More than three years after the cold February day when 26 FBI agents descended on the Qualla Housing Authority building in Cherokee, the U.S. Department of Justice informed the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that its investigation yielded “no prosecutable cases,” and that the tribe can have the seized files back. The announcement came in a Nov. 17, 2020,...

Close In this Gazette file photo, the 2019 annual Point in Time survey of the homeless population in Colorado Springs included Kallie Cuttler providing information and talking about some of her challenges of being homeless in an area near Sand Creek. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE

Shutterstock.com The city of Colorado Springs is asking the public to comment on the draft plan for using 2021 federal block grant funds, to make sure the plan matches the needs of the community. The city receives about $5 million in federal funding each year for affordable housing, homelessness prevention, economic development, nonprofit assistance and neighborhood improvements for low-income populations. These funds come from the Community Development Block Gra...