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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday passed a wide-ranging ordinance that would ban unhoused people from camping in designated parts of the city. Camping would be prevented anywhere that impedes passage for anyone protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which includes sidewalks. Camping will also be banned within 500 feet of schools, day care facilities, public parks, libraries, underpasses, overpasses, freeway ramps and subway stations, and within 1,000 feet of a homeless shelter. The ordinance also allows...

Westside Evolves Enters Phase Of Strategy Development Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Westside Evolves, a collaborative neighborhood planning initiative among the Chattanooga Design Studio, the city of Chattanooga, and the Chattanooga Housing Authority, has completed the second phase of their planning process. Westside residents and other stakeholders participated in a nine-month planning process that will provide a roadmap for revitalization of the neighborhood.  The study area, known as the Westside District, is bordered by ML King Boulevard, Riverfront Parkway, Main Street and I-27, and in...

Near-misses from target shooters cause officials to issue emergency trail closure Share This The following is a news release from the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. POCATELLO — Due to rising safety concerns, effective immediately, the Caribou-Targhee National Forest Westside Ranger District is implementing an emergency trail closure for the Lead Draw Trail #109, from the Lead Draw trailhead to the confluence of Walker Creek and Crestline Trails. The closure will remain in effect until a viable and safe solution can be identified. “With the number of reports we’ve heard regarding near...

Want an affordable apartment, 2 blocks from Capitol? Big Boise project offers hope David Staats, The Idaho Statesman Mar. 9—A plan is afoot to make a downtown Boise block the site of one of the biggest urban-renewal construction projects ever undertaken in Boise. The goal: to create more affordable housing. But Boise officials, who are barely into the project's discussion stage, already have doubts about how many of the possible 500 new apartments could or should actually be affordable to people earning modest wages. The apartments would be built in buildings up to eight sto...

Pilot program seeks to save historic San Antonio 'shotgun houses' and create jobs FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Celia Mendoza owns this 700-square-foot “double shotgun” rental unit near San Antonio College. It is one of about 300 shotgun houses spread throughout San Antonio’s urban core. They were built from the 1870s to the 1930s for working-class families.Billy Calzada /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of11 This row of houses on West Ashby includes a shotgun house, right, thought to have been built in the 1870s. City officials believe these old homes may be part of the answer to aff...