Garrett Petersen Podcast on Zoning Regulations

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New York Urbanism with Stephen Smith

October 7, 2016 Garrett M. Petersen

Today’s guest is Stephen Smith, he is an analyst for a New York real estate firm.
Stephen did some research showing that at least 40 percent of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built under today’s zoning regulations.

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In fact, the number is probably significantly higher. Classic landmarks like the Empire State Building, with its floor-area ratio of 30, wouldn’t fly today.
Watch this time-lapse of the New York City skyline, and pay close attention to the kind of changes that happen in the earlier part of the video compared to the later part:

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Before the twentieth century, the pace of change is very gradual. Two storey buildings are replaced with three storey buildings. Waves of development sweep through the city, replacing wood buildings with brick and stone and concrete.
In the twentieth century, we see a different kind of development. Pay attention to any particular small building and you’ll notice one of two things happening: Either the building stays exactly as it is, or it is replaced by a massive skyscraper. There’s no more gradual change.
This is caused by the city’s adoption of land-use regulations. The first zoning code was adopted in 1916, but the really strict zoning came in 1961. Once this happened, tearing down and replacing a building meant pulling political strings to get it rezoned. Because of the significant fixed cost of getting a lot rezoned, developers opted to build a few extremely tall buildings rather than many moderately tall ones. Heavy restrictions in most of Manhattan led developers to concentrate development in the few places that would allow it. That’s why Midtown built up while other neighbourhoods didn’t.
New York’s mayors tend to be pro-development, but its city councillors block development at every turn. The city council’s behaviour is consistent with William Fischel’s home voter hypothesis. The city council tends to defer to individual councillors on their own local issues, giving each councillor de facto control over development in his neighbourhood. When authority is devolved to the hyper-local level, there’s a strong incentive to block development to raise real estate prices.
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Arizona-Sonora Megaregion

Published on Oct 6, 2016

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Largest Amateur Boxing Tournament In Arizona Here in Mesa Nov 10-12 2016

The Gene Lewis Tournament is booked for November 10-12 at 59 E. Broadway in Mesa, Arizona.
Josh Benjamin (480-834-1216) will answer all questions.
By Don Smith PhilBoxing.com Fri, 07 Oct 2016
41ST ANNUAL GENE LEWIS INVITATIONAL BOXING TOURNAMENT
NOVEMBER 10 - 12 2016

Broadway Recreation Center
59 East Broadway
Mesa, Arizona

http://www.genelewisboxingclub.com/

The annual Gene Lewis Boxing tournament is the largest amateur boxing tournament in the state of Arizona. For over thirty years Mesa, Arizona has hosted the tournament and has seen many athletes compete from all over the nation and beyond. This tournament offers a great chance for fighters of all ages and experience levels to compete.
The Gene Lewis Tournament has had at least one member of each United States Olympic Boxing Team from 1976 to 2004 participate in our competition. If you or your club is interested in competing in the Annual Gene Lewis Boxing Tournament, download the tournament registration form and fill out accordingly. See you at the tournament!
This three day event also offers our sponsors an incredible opportunity to advertise their businesses and or programs.
CLUB PURPOSE

To promote decency and prevent delinquency through services geared to providing behavioral guidance and the promotion of health, social, educational, vocational and character development of boys and girls.

The Gene Lewis Boxing Club serves boys and girls of all walks of life, including boys and girls from broken homes, from highest to the lowest income and youngsters in need of guidance and understanding. We take pride in providing our athletes direction, acceptance, encouragement and friendship.

We are dedicated to helping the boys and girls in the community by re-directing their energies towards constructive activities. In addition, we provide counseling and guidance in a way that leads to good citizenship and high standards of juvenile conduct.

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View the Associated Press piece on the Gene Lewis Boxing Club here.

Phoenix: American Middleweight in Brookings Institution Redefining Global Cities



American Middleweights

American Middleweights are 16 mid-sized U.S. metro areas, including places like Indianapolis, Miami, and St. Louis, that are relatively wealthy and house strong universities and other anchor institutions. But relatively low traded sector productivity and FDI levels suggest they must continue to strategically align their existing assets to improve traded sector competitiveness.

Source: Brookings Research 
The world’s largest metropolitan areas concentrate the drivers of global prosperity, but there isn’t one way to be a global city—this report defines seven types of global cities, providing a valuable lens through which to understand an evolving global economy.

Authors:

Jesus Leal Trujillo

Research Analyst and Associate Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

José Padilla
Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

 

 

 

As societies and economies around the world have urbanized, they have upended the classic notion of a global city. No longer is the global economy driven by a select few major financial centers like New York, London, and Tokyo. Today, members of a vast and complex network of cities participate in international flows of goods, services, people, capital, and ideas, and thus make distinctive contributions to global growth and opportunity. And as the global economy continues to suffer from what the IMF terms “too slow growth for too long,” efforts to understand and enhance cities’ contributions to growth and prosperity become even more important.

Seven types of global cities
In view of these trends and challenges, this report redefines global cities. It introduces a new typology that builds from a first-of-its-kind database of dozens of indicators, standardized across the world’s 123 largest metro economies, to examine what really defines a global city—its economic characteristics, industrial structure, and key competitiveness factors.
The typology reveals that there is no one way to be a global city. Grouped into seven metropolitan clusters, the distinct competitive positions of the world’s largest metro economies become sharper, as do the peers metropolitan areas can look to for common solutions and investments to enhance economic growth.
Developing the typology

To develop the typology, we utilized a series of statistical techniques to group metropolitan economies with their closest peers based on a set of 35 stock variables that measure metropolitan-level economic characteristics, industrial structure, and key competitiveness factors:

• Tradable Clusters: Tradable industries are a critical driver of prosperity and competitiveness. These industries are typically anchored by globally engaged firms, which have valuable spillovers for local economies. We measure tradable industries using data on greenfield foreign direct investment, which is inextricably bound up with traded industry clusters, and the productivity differential (measured as output per worker) between a metro area’s traded sector and that traded sector nationwide.
• Innovation: A region’s innovative capacity has implications for its ability to develop and deploy commercial applications, start new businesses, and maintain industrial competitiveness in the face of disruptive technological change. We measure innovation through the scientific impact of research universities, patenting, and venture capital flows.
• Talent: Human capital—the stock of knowledge, skills, expertise, and capacities embedded in the labor force—is of critical importance to enhancing productivity, raising incomes, and driving economic growth. We measure talent through the share of population with tertiary education.
• Infrastructure Connectivity: Infrastructure connectivity matters for regional competitiveness because firms rely upon global access, both physically and digitally, to participate in the efficiencies of global value chains. We measure infrastructure connectivity through aviation passenger flows and internet download speeds.

For a full discussion of the methodology, including all indicators used in the analysis, please download the report

 

Explore the seven types of global cities

Note: The dots in the plot above depict the averages of the normalized metro area values (z-scores) for each global city type. The solid horizontal axis line represents the average of the 123 metro areas.

For media inquries, contact:

Allison Courtin acourtin@brookings.edu 

Phone:  202.238.3556

Here In Mesa: Oakland A's Set Sights On Spring Training in Low-Stakes Environment

Oakland A's Instructional League Report: Settling in
Oakland A's Athletic Story

Kimberly Contreras

Monday at 1:03

MESA, AZ -- Kimberly Contreras checks in with her first report from the Oakland A's 2016 fall Instructional League camp.

Ask anyone who participates and they’ll tell you Instructs is the best time of year. Players and development staff alike value the four-plus weeks of evaluation, competition and comradery all in a low-stakes environment. It’s a wonderful way to wrap up the season and set sights on spring training

Players invited to participate in Instructs (also referred to as the Fall Instructional League) typically come from three areas:

rookies or minor leaguers who’ve just completed their first full season of professional baseball,

farmhands who spent ample time on the disabled list during the season and need to make up innings or at-bats, and

international free agent signers . . .

From the first day of camp, each staff member assumes an active, hands-on role; whether it’s throwing batting practice, hitting fungos, coaching first base or assisting in the outfield, every staff member contributes. When it’s game time, the hard-working coaches turn into reinforcement vocal supporters (cheerleaders) led by the man who often says his job title is “Special Assistant to Keith Lieppman”, Grady Fuson. The no-nonsense guru is a natural teacher who knows each players’ challenges and is the first to reinforce growth and improvement. Nowhere else do you see men of his stature with other teams as engaged and personalized in their encouragement of players regardless of the round they were drafted. The same is true with pitching coordinator, Gil Patterson. Before I met him, years ago, I thought Gil was a father of one of the pitchers – just wasn’t sure which one. He was nurturing, supportive, and invested in their progress. It’s the same thing I see today. Advantage: Baby A’s.
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Mesa Now #39 > Here's News Reporter Chris Brady [Day-Job City Manager]

BIG Public Relations Push
By  Mesa City Manager Chris Brady ---- casting himself once again as front-of-the-camera + on-air talent ..... He's been here for 10 years in the position as the city's chief executive

Published on Sep 29, 2016

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