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The five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
Fresno is the larger principal city of the Fresno-Madera CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fresno (Fresno County) and Madera (Madera County) metropolitan areas, [60] [61] which had a combined population of 922,516 at the 2000 census. [10] Fresno is home to numerous ethnic minority communities, such as the Armenian and Hmong ...
The Bee’s senior editor weighs in on the importance of Fresno’s downtown and plans for exclusive coverage Fresno has once-in-a-lifetime chance to redevelop downtown. City leaders must get it right
Fresno County has 3,400 miles of roads (some of that of course belongs to the city), 580 bridges, 10,000 augers and yes, there is $1 billion in deferred maintenance.
In 1990, California amended the Housing Accountability Act (HAA, passed a decade before that) which created the state's builder's remedy process. Under the HAA, if a local municipality is not in compliance with California's housing development goals, developers are authorized to bypass that municipality's zoning laws so long as the new housing development contains at least 20% low-income ...
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Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...