Tag: Government planning
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Errors in Wichita Union Station development proposal
Documents the Wichita City Council will use to evaluate a development proposal contain material errors. Despite the city being aware of the errors for more than one month, they have not been corrected.
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Wichita water projections from 2008
Do you get the feeling that Wichita’s promises and projections regarding water are quite, well, fluid?
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Wichita’s blatant waste, Transforming Wichita, and how you can help
Let’s ask that Wichita trim its blatant waste of tax dollars before asking for more. We’ll look back at a program called Transforming Wichita. Then: We need to hold campaigns accountable. I’ll give you examples why, and tell how you can help.
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Wichita planning results in delay, waste
Wichita plans an ambitious road project that turns out to be too expensive, resulting in continued delays for Wichita drivers and purchases of land that may not be needed.
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Economic development incentives in Wichita: A few questions
Wichita justifies its use of targeted economic development incentives by citing benefit-cost ratios that are computed for the city, county, school district, and state.
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A development plan for downtown Wichita
Development plan for downtown Wichita as prepared by RTKL Associates, Inc.
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For Wichita, policies are made to be waived and ignored
The City of Wichita says it wants policies to be predictable and reliable, but finds it difficult to live up to that goal.
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A lesson for Wichita in economic development
When a prominent Wichita business executive and civic leader asked for tax relief, his reasoning allows us to more fully understand the city’s economic development efforts and nature of the people city hall trusts to lead these endeavors.
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For Wichita, water supply decisions loom
Now that the Wichita City Council has all but recommended that voters raise taxes in order to spend $250 million for water supply enhancements, citizens need to consider recent history and how current decisions are made.
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Wichita develops plans to make up for past planning mistakes
On several issues, including street maintenance, water supply, and economic development, Wichita government and civic leaders have let our city fall behind. Now they ask for your support for future plans to correct these mistakes in past plans.
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Government planning, taxes, and carbon
The City of Wichita held a workshop where the Community Investments Plan Steering Committee delivered a progress report to the city council. The document holds some facts that ought to make Wichitans think, and think hard. Then: What is the purpose of high tax rates on high income earners? Finally: Advances in producing oil and…
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Where’s Wichita’s water?
It appears that the plans the city made for a future water supply were not adequate, and the spending to implement the plan has been, largely, wasted.