Re-connection monthly newsletter
Each month in Re-connection, MPC’s official e-newsletter, we provide updates about our latest activities with links to additional information on our web site. Past issues are available below. Subscribe >>
Talking Transit bi-monthly newsletter
Twice a month in Talking Transit, MPC provides updates about transit-related activities around the world. Past issues are available below. Subscribe >>
What Our Water's Worth monthly newsletter
The monthly What Our Water's Worth (WOWW) e-newsletter is part of a multimedia communications campaign led by MPC and Openlands to raise awareness about the value of water in our region. Each edition features a story of a person, organization or community using water in a remarkable way. Past issues are available below. Subscribe >>
The EAH Advantage quarterly newsletter
The EAH Advantage is MPC's quarterly e-newsletter about Employer-Assisted Housing. Past issues are available below. Subscribe >>
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- Talking Transit: Financing Transit with Special Assessment
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- Fourteen percent of Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail line extension to Dulles Airport will be funded through a voluntary special assessment on business and industrial property owners.
Innovative Financing for Transit: Special Assessment
Construction of the Dulles…
- Re-Connection: Plan for Prosperity 2012
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- This Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address to the nation, with a clear focus on strengthening the economy. “The state of our union is getting stronger,” said the President. “We’ve come too far to turn back now.”
Where We…
- Talking Transit: Funding Transit with TIFs
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- 1/13/2012
- Talking Transit
- San Francisco Transbay Terminal’s 5.4-acre rooftop park will include a 1,000-foot-long fountain with water jets triggered by the movement of the buses below.
Funding Transit with TIFs
A rendering of the rooftop park of San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center.
Tax…
- What Our Water's Worth: From gray to green infrastructure
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- 1/12/2012
- What Our Water's Worth
- What Our Water's Worth is a campaign led by the Metropolitan Planning Council and Openlands to raise awareness about the value of water in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
From gray to green: Investing in sustainable infrastructure
Nan Buckardt, director of…
- Re-Connection: MPC by the numbers 2011
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- On Dec. 8, MPC’s Board of Governors approved an ambitious work plan for 2012. It builds on notable achievements in 2011, such as the Bus Rapid Transit study, passage of Public-Private Partnership enabling legislation, and $29 million invested in housing and economic development activities in…
- Talking Transit: CTA and Metra bring holiday cheer to Chicago
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- 12/9/2011
- Talking Transit
- The Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) Holiday Train delivers 300 food baskets to community organizations throughout the city of Chicago.
Santa rides the CTA!
Photo: Devyn Caldwell
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) continues its traditional Holiday Train this…
- What Our Water's Worth: Good riddance, radium
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- 12/6/2011
- What Our Water's Worth
- What Our Water's Worth is a campaign led by the Metropolitan Planning Council and Openlands to raise awareness about the value of water in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
Good riddance, radium: Ion-exchange provides clean water in Lake Zurich, Ill.
Public Works Director…
- Re-Connection: Reasons to Give Thanks
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- Thursday is Thanksgiving. And whether that means family, food, football, or Black Friday, it is an occasion to reflect and, hopefully, be grateful.
Where We Stand
In the spirit of the holiday, we thought we would share some of the reasons MPC is especially thankful this year.
The Chicago…
- Talking Transit: Pre-Tax Transit Benefits
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- 11/18/2011
- Talking Transit
- If Congress does not vote by year’s end to maintain the existing pre-tax transit benefit, workers who commute via rail and bus will be hit with a tax increase beginning in January.
Photo credit: John Walker
In 2009, Congress increased the maximum amount an individual…
- What Our Water's Worth: Planning well into the future
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- 11/8/2011
- What Our Water's Worth
- What Our Water's Worth is a campaign led by the Metropolitan Planning Council and Openlands to raise awareness about the value of water in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
Planning well into the future
by Marie Donahue, MPC Research Assistant
City of Batavia Water…
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