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Rules for special events relaxed in response to new COVID guidelines By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin Center for Events (ACE) says its revising the Bringing Events Back: Event Reopening Guide and the COVID-19 Health and Safety Form currently required for special events applications. Revisions to the guide and application process will take effect next week. Officials say applicants can anticipate changes to the social distancing requirements and masking require...

Whats under construction? City debuts Google map of new builds You’re driving around town and see some construction happening. You wonder – what is that going to be? The City of Wichita Falls has developed a web page where you can quickly and easily find out. The city’s planning department created a Google Map page that pinpoints new businesses and businesses under construction. Click on an icon – green for completed or yellow for permitted – and a box opens. Information in that box t...

NOTEBOOK: Demand for newly built houses ‘very strong,’ Des Moines-area homebuilder says Friday, April 23, 2021 6:00 AM The National Association of Home Builders this month published an updated edition of its publication that includes a survey of homebuyers’ preferences. Buyers’ first preference? Sixty percent of those surveyed said they preferred to buy a newly built house, up 6 percentage points from 2018 when 54% said they wanted new houses. “That demand for a new ...

Staff Report Forestar Group Inc., a national residential lot developer, broke ground March 23 for Star Farms at Lakewood Ranch, a 700-acre gated neighborhood. Attendees at the event included Tony Chiofalo, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch; John Barnott, Manatee County Building and Development Services Director; and Tony Squitieri, Forestar West Florida Division president; Tim Martin, Forestar West Florida development director; and Robert Price, For...

For a year, two sisters and their five children have languished in a neglected, Hartford apartment despite numerous complaints about the cockroach infestation, heat and power outages, broken appliances and other issues. The poor conditions they've lived with are all too common.

Replies(3) On Wednesday the Planning Commission reviewed the accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units revised plan. (Shutterstock) RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA — The Rancho Santa Margarita Planning Commission met Wednesday to discuss state-mandated changes for adding Accessory Dwelling Units— or "granny flats"—to the citys municipal code. The citys current municipal code is out of date after California state laws new passage in 2020. Last year, California changed the law...

As restaurants prepare to reopen for indoor dining, the City of Edmonds is allowing businesses to permanently use tents and gazebos in parking spots and city streets.

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: January 25, 2021 Editor: As the Edmonds Citizens Housing Commission concludes this Thursday, the Alliance of Citizens for Edmonds (ACE) thanks the Commissioners and alternate Commissioners, for volunteering their time, committing to this aspirational process.  Understandably, the process was made more difficult for all involved due to Covid-19 restrictions, mandating virtual meetings and eliminating the original promise of neighborhood meetings throughout all of Edm...