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  2. District Plan - Wikipedia

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    A district plan is a statutory planning document of New Zealand's territorial authorities. Mainly covering land use / zoning questions, they have been required since the advent of the Resource Management Act 1991 . [ 1 ]

  3. Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College

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    One advocate for the amendments, James Madison, wrote in 1823 that the district plan "was mostly, if not exclusively, in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted." [8] Between 1813 and 1824 the Senate approved amendments for the district plan four different times, and the House approved a separate amendment in 1820. None of the ...

  4. Government of the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single government for the federal ...

  5. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    The district mode was mostly, if not exclusively in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted; & was exchanged for the general ticket [many years later]. [79] Each state government was free to have its own plan for selecting its electors, and the Constitution does not explicitly require states to popularly elect their electors.

  6. District of Columbia home rule - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson presented to Congress a plan to reorganize the District's government designed by David Carliner. [22] The three-commissioner system was replaced by a government headed by a single mayor-commissioner, an assistant mayor-commissioner, and a nine-member district council, all appointed by the president. [22]

  7. District Planning Committee - Wikipedia

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    A district planning committee (DPC) is the committee created as per article 243ZD of the Constitution of India at the district level [1] [2] for planning at the district and below. The committee in each district should consolidate the plans prepared by the Panchayats and the municipalities in the district and prepare a draft development plan ...

  8. Business improvement districts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The committee petitions the local government for permission to establish the district; Local government creates notice of proposal and hosts a public hearing; Public hearing is held with proposed plan. The plan may be rejected if a petition is signed by over 40% of property owners within the district

  9. District of Columbia statehood movement - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, the statehood legislation supported by the district government since 2017, carves out an enclave within the proposed state known as "The Capital" to act as the new federal district; this Capital would encompass the White House, Capitol Building, Supreme Court Building, and other major federal ...