Development assistance, technical assistance, and training can facilitate and encourage commercial development in Africa, such as improving rural roads, agricultural research and extension, and providing access to credit and other resources.
Ron Shiffman, a former city planning commissioner, and Adam Friedman, executive director of the New York Industrial Retention Network, an advocacy group, warn that any effort to encourage commercial development in Long Island City or Brooklyn could also pose enormous problems for manufacturers.
To lessen the tax burden, Ms. Gorman favors encouraging commercial development in the southern part of the village, near the north side of Pelham Parkway.
As local government encourages commercial development, low-income families and small businesses have been displaced, the report says.
Without a commercial market to encourage the development of the vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and technologies that are needed, the government has had to create a market, and encourage commercial developers of medical countermeasures to participate.
In order to encourage commercial skill development and improvement across all universities engaged in commercialisation, the sector has set up, an educational not-for-profit organisation, Praxis Unico which supports innovation and commercialisation in the public sector by the sharing between organisations of good practice.
As seen with the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the development of a greenway is hoped to spur traffic, which would encourage commercial and residential development in the neglected and low-income High Bridge area.
Mr. Mullane, the president of the Council of Governments, said that because towns rely so heavily on the property tax to pay for schools, roads and any other services, towns would rather encourage commercial or industrial development, which pays more in taxes than it consumes in services.
Brokers are also getting involved in the efforts to encourage commercial as well as residential development.
Legislative changes were enacted in the 1980s to encourage the commercial development of federally funded research: universities and other nonprofit institutions were allowed to apply for patents on such research and tax incentives were provided to the private sector to encourage investment.
Homeowners, citing examples of high-rise office development taking place immediately to the east in neighboring West Los Angeles, said that to allow more parking in the neighborhood would only encourage more commercial development in their area, increasing congestion.
