Hillsborough planners want input on road project
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- Hillsborough County planners are looking to widen a more than 10-mile stretch of Lithia-Pinecrest road in the Brandon-Valrico area.

Raleigh planners look to the future
RALEIGH -- Raleigh city planners want to hear from the public about their growth plan for the next 20 years. The city wants to focus development around urban centers and transit hubs.

Planners approve housing despite contamination fears
Planners have given the go-ahead to a controversial housing development on a site that local people fear could be contaminated with beryllium.

Midcentury, Mostly
Robert Bardin and Robert Palomo, event planners, have opened a Chelsea showroom where they are selling their collection of French and American furniture, lighting and sculpture, most of it dating from the 1920s through the 1960s and amassed over the last 15 years. They have 60 pieces on display in vignettes in the showroom and 150 stashed in a warehouse in New Jersey. Midcentury Italian chairs ...

Inauguration planners take economy into consideration
WASHINGTON - Airlines are adding flights. Church groups are chartering buses. Beyoncé wants to perform, and Oprah's got her ball gown picked out.

Planners approve county subdivision
PARKERSBURG - Wood County Planning Commission approved the proposed development of five lots in Phase I of Oakdale Estates in Mineral Wells following a public hearing Wednesday night.

Planners OK zoning changes for University Place
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday approved some minor zoning changes that will give businesses in the University Place area more flexibility.

Local briefs
Planners approve 'Fresno 40' development

Cupertino planners say hotel proposal isn't luxurious enough
The Cupertino Planning Commission doesn't think a proposed luxury hotel planned for De Anza Boulevard looks luxurious enough and wants the project applicants to come back Jan. 13 with a different look.

Planners told to think of exercise
Urban planners should promote exercise when they design public transport and neighborhood facilities, experts told the second Shanghai International Forum on Exercise and Health at the Shanghai University of Sports at the weekend, Shanghai Daily reported.

Planners approve Lakeview project
A plan for more than 260 condominiums, retail and restaurant space, a movie theater and health center at the northwest corner of Highway 135 and Skyway Drive has cleared its final hurdle.

Planners OK scaled-down annexation
ELKO - The Elko City Planning Commission sent a recommendation to the city council Tuesday that it approve annexation of 196 acres south of the intersection of Errecart Boulevard and Bullion Road - conditional on a number of issues.

Local event planners are the life of the party
SPRINGFIELD ? Their clients include the Ohio Funeral Directors Association and a group of Columbus attorneys.

The growing need for town planning courses to teach terror attack managment
Academics call for more courses to teach town planners how to prevent and mitigate terrorist attacks. Louise Tickle reports

Taiwan government to push for consolidation in DRAM industry, but direct bailout unlikely
Instead of pouring funds directly to rescue financially-troubled Taiwan DRAM makers, Taiwan's lawmakers have asked the state planners office under the Council of Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) to push for a consolidation process within the memory industry.

Planners OK parking plan for downtown buildings
Two new retail buildings can go up downtown on land surrounding How It Works after the Anacortes Planning Commission gave the OK to allow fewer parking spaces than required at the site. The?

Planners weigh permit for proposed lion exhibit
The new lion exhibit planned for The Living Desert will top the agenda when the Palm Desert Planning Commission meets at 6 p.m. today in the Civic Center council chamber, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive.

Three, two, one: Rogers planners? agenda goes quickly
ROGERS ? With only three items on the agenda, the Planning Commission flew threw the agenda during Tuesday?s meeting. (Benton County Daily Record)

NORTH TONAWANDA: Rand project gets OK by planners
The long awaited rehabilitation of a downtown North Tonawanda factory ? the former Remington Rand property ? got final approval Monday.

Planning with a vision
County and municipal planners are about as popular as tax assessors, but they are a vital cog in promoting local development while protecting property values and community standards.