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Politics · Housing
…passes, about 31 percent of Halbridge’s residential land would be rezoned overnight, and the planning department estimates that somewhere between 21,000 and 38,000 more homes would be built over the next three decades…
Ideas · Memory
…long ago, mostly by the departments that created it, under retention schedules that tell a planning officer to shred applications after so many years and a payroll clerk to dispose of timesheets after so many more.…
Politics · Public works
…to build anything again. Her objection was not frivolous. Callow Vale had spent a decade planning a four-kilometer link from the upper valley to the creamery at Fellgate, which would have cut 22 minutes from…
Politics · Government
…year is the one nobody writes about. For the past year the department let me sit in on its planning meetings, its night shifts, and its negotiations with the finance ministry. What I found was not a story of heroes…
Ideas · Essay
…less than you might expect. Halbridge’s noise office keeps a map of its complaints, and the planning department down the hall keeps a map of measured noise, and when I asked to see them side by side, the officer…