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Akron group questions legality of vote approving White Pond land sale
Members of Akron City Council are seeking the authorized view of the city’s mayor-appointed regulation director immediately after a team of citizens known as Preserve White Pond pointed to a 1990 metropolis regulation that necessitates the mayor to get two-thirds of council to concur ahead of advertising public land. A offer authorized Monday to market 68 acres of city-owned property to the a developer of luxurious housing passed 7-6, beneath the 9-member (or two-thirds) threshold that would normally be demanded by the metropolis code of ordinances, the team contends. “We’re knowledgeable of the statement released from Conserve White Pond,” the mayor’s business reported Wednesday morning, responding to the Beacon Journal’s…
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Law Land Lines: Property Law and the Transformation of Seattle’s Terrain
Scripture envisages a time when “Every valley shall be lifted up/ every mountain and hill made low / and the uneven ground shall become level .…” (Isa. 40:4 (RSV).) While the meaning of this prophecy is quite another story, the imagery fits one surveyor’s mission to transform Seattle at the turn of the twentieth century. R. H. Thomson, Seattle city engineer, ca. 1931. Museum of History & Industry Seattle was established on the hills and tidal mud flats along the eastern shore of Elliott Bay, a natural deep-water port in Puget Sound. Fed by a Mount Rainier glacier, the Duwamish River carried timber and coal to Elliott Bay for trade.…
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‘Castor and Patience’ opera shows Black land ownership barriers : NPR
Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) and Tolerance (Talise Trevigne) toast to their reunion in advance of discussion what motivates Castor’s go to to the sea island homestead. Philip Groshong/Cincinnati Opera cover caption toggle caption Philip Groshong/Cincinnati Opera Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) and Persistence (Talise Trevigne) toast to their reunion just before dialogue what motivates Castor’s pay a visit to to the sea island homestead. Philip Groshong/Cincinnati Opera Cincinnati — A new opera, Castor and Endurance, requires on the pervasive obstacles to land possession for Black People. With a libretto by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and a score by composer Gregory Spears, the opera tells the…
