City-parish looking to spend millions in COVID relief on drainage work
City-parish looking to spend millions in COVID relief on drainage work
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BATON ROUGE - Nearly a month after the capital region saw widespread flooding following heavy rains, the city-parish is planning to use some of its first tranche of COVID-19 relief money from the American Rescue Plan on drainage work. These are projects that can move right away, Chief Administrative Officer Darryl Gissel said. We don t have to get huge approval from the Army Corps of Engineers or environmental clearance.
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Unified Development Code Module Four Released for Public Comment City of Lubbock (Source: City of Lubbock) By KCBD Staff | May 9, 2021 at 2:44 PM CDT - Updated May 9 at 2:44 PM
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The City of Lubbock is creating a Unified Development Code that will revise, update and combine all current development-related ordinances and regulations into a single comprehensive document.
Throughout this process, the engagement of the public is not only important, but integral to the success of this new code. The fourth of four draft modules has been released by the Planning Department for review and comments from the public.