Entries Tagged as 'Citywide'

Public comment period for comp plan extended 60 days

April 5th, 2013 · Comments Off · Citywide

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If you haven’t had a chance to look through and comment on the draft comprehensive plan for the city of Birmingham, you’ve now got a 60 day extension. It’s like you finally got the request for more time granted by that college professor of yours…

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The Plan gets its public hearing tonight

April 4th, 2013 · Comments Off · Citywide

Logo for The Birmingham Comprehensive Plan process

It’s time to show up again, Birmingham – this time the issues involves how we plan to move forward as a city. The opportunity to fully adopt a comprehensive plan for the first time in the city’s history is here.

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How many Birmingham neighborhoods do you know?

February 21st, 2013 · 1 Comment · Citywide, Online

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There’s been a lot of talk about place recently in Birmingham, AL – particularly matching perception with reality. A better understanding of the city & the location of its neighborhoods may help change some of those beliefs. Someone seems to be tackling that already.

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Nice crowd for Saturday city comp plan forum

August 27th, 2012 · Comments Off · Citywide, The City

Mayor Bell signs in Aug comp plan. acnatta/Flickr.

Saturday August 25 saw approximately 250 people turn out at the Birmingham Museum of Art to learn about the progress made in the city’s comprehensive plan process. Yes, this thing’s just gotten real…

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Witherspoon to share state of city schools, tax increase proposal

May 14th, 2012 · Comments Off · Citywide, Education

Craig Witherspoon speaking at TechFriday

Birmingham City Schools superintendent Craig Witherspoon has been talking a lot about what’s going on in the school system in recent weeks. You’ve got two more opportunities to hear from him and ask questions this week across Birmingham.

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Time to SeeClickFix Birmingham

July 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Citywide, The Terminal

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We’re launching a new section of the site today – the integration of the SeeClickFix Birmingham 311 map onto the site. It’s one that we hope lends itself to the beginning of our change in focus towards becoming a site focusing on urban revitalization issues.

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Raise your voices on ROX

June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off · Citywide

Laney DeGeorge (Rojo) and Sue Moody are scheduled to be on this morning’s ROX Report radio show on 1070-AM until 8:30 a.m. They’re asking that folks call in to the studio with comments about the Knights of Columbus property in Glen Iris that been a recurring topic of conversation in recent months. They also want [...]

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It was time to pray

April 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Citywide, Events

Larry Langford with sackcloth

Mojo Denbow/PhotoMojo.info This is one of the images taken by Mojo Denbow earlier this evening at the “It’s Time to Pray” summit at Boutwell Auditorium in downtown Birmingham, AL. Click on the image to view a small slideshow, with links to the photos in his Flickr stream.

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