The City Planning Commission last night recommended approval of Rochester’s new comprehensive plan. City Council is expected to consider the plan at its November 12 meeting.
Rochester comprehensive plan
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Feedback 9/4
We welcome your comments. Send them to feedback@rochester-citynews.com with your name, your daytime telephone number for verification, and your city, town or village. Comments of fewer than 500 words have a greater chance of being published, and we do edit selections for publication in print. We don’t publish comments sent to other media. Comp plan’s […]
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Neighborhood schools: popular but impossible?
For many people, a return to neighborhood schools wouldn’t be a hard sell. But as with many things, that’s easier said than done.
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The future of Rochester in a few hundred pages
Part ‘vision,’ part hard realism, ‘Rochester 2034’ reflects changes in the city as well as new interests, hopes, and concerns.
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Urban Action 3/28
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Focusing on urban policing The Moving Beyond Racism Book Group will discuss “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” by Allice Goffman on Monday, April 2. Goffman spent six years living […]
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Preparing for the inevitable: City looks at climate change
[UPDATED AND REVISED 01/26/17] Climate change is such an all-encompassing problem that there’s no escaping it. Sure, people, corporations, and governments across the world should be doing everything they can to attack the fundamental problem: the human-generated carbon emissions that are causing Earth to warm at an accelerated rate. But as a planet, we took […]
