City of Conway officials believe their $2 million multiyear project, designed to reduce flooding in the area near Trinity United Methodist Church, could become a model for other communities.
Conway City Council voted recently to move ahead with the project that city officials have whittled down from an estimated $2.4 million to somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million, according to Deputy City Administrator/Grants Coordinator John Rogers.
At a recent meeting, council members voted unanimously to seek a grant from the Building Resilient Infrastructure in Communities (BRIC) program to allow engineers, Robinson Design Engineers, (RDE) to complete its plan designed to mimic a Carolina Bay, the naturally-occurring elliptical depressions that sometimes include rare foliage and help prevent flooding.
John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, believes we may be on the verge of a collapse in housing prices and an ensuing financial crisis this time caused by our failure to acknowledge and confront climate change. In a phone interview and a written email exchange, he shared his reasoning and what the incoming Biden administration can do to prevent this scenario.
You’ve been warning for years that America’s housing market has been ignoring the risk of perils associated with climate change. Do you believe we are approaching a correction?
Yes. Damage from climate change has accelerated faster than many people anticipated. In USA in 2020, there were 16 weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each (some much larger). The average from 2015 to 2019 was 13.8 such events. The average for the 40 years prior to 2020 was 6.6. What’s more, we are seeing risks we didn’t foresee just a few years ago. We’ve been rig
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A $1.2 million community storm shelter in downtown Decatur will be constructed if the Morgan County Commission is awarded a federal grant to pay for most of the project, according to county officials.
Morgan County Emergency Management Agency Director Brandy Davis said the proposed shelter would house nearly 400 people during a storm and replace the courthouse basement as a shelter.
Last week at its regular meeting, the commission approved Davisâ application for the grant, which is funded by the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities branch of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grant would cover 75% of the project, with the remaining 25% picked up by the county.
The Greenville City Council unanimously approved the purchase of 184 acres of riverfront property to expand its Wildwood Park development during its Monday Council meeting.
The land, purchased for $617,000, is located on the west side of Northeast Greenville Boulevard at its intersection with Old Pactolus Road.
When combined with the 163 acres of riverfront property east of the highway that was purchased a year ago, the city will have 340 acres of river and lakefront property.
The new property will allow the city to connect River Park North with Wildwood Park using a series of primitive trails that, on a round trip basis, will total more than 10 miles, Assistant City Manager Michael Cowin said.
TO: G & CB ENTERPRISES, LLC
TAKE NOTICE that the property taxes for the year 2018 are unpaid on the property hereinafter described and that this proceeding is for the collection of said unpaid taxes or the sale of said property to satisfy the unpaid property taxes.
In the above-styled cause, it appearing from the return of the Sheriff on the original summons or from the return of the summons by certified mail that said defendants are not to be found and that after search and inquiry cannot be located so that ordinary process be served upon G & CB ENTERPRISES, LLC, to notify said defendants that taxes are owing on the real property described on the tax rolls of the Tax Assessor for Rutherford County, Tennessee as Map 014I, Group C, Control Map 014I, Parcel 001.00, Account Number R0004838, which property is also known by the address of 287 Sand Hill Rd, LaVergne, Tennessee, and such property being more specifically described in Deed Book 665, Page 736, of the Registerâs Offi