Sentence examples for incentives for cities from inspiring English sources

Provide incentives for cities to invest in environmentally sound infrastructure?

So mitigation measures should not discourage people from crowding into vulnerable cities but rather establish incentives for cities and their inhabitants to protect themselves better.Many cities have tough building codes but fail to enforce them.

Hoffman suggests that the EPA could incorporate green roofs into incentives for cities to comply with the Clean Water Act.

That in turn creates an incentive for cities to be expansive in their definition of blight and to extend the life of redevelopment zones that are supposed to disappear once their bonds are paid off.

Jim Anderson, leader of the government innovation programme at the foundation, says: "Cities are already pioneering new programmes and policies, but we wanted to create a powerful incentive for cities to think bigger and bolder".

There is also an incentive for city candidates to raise money in 2011, because the political world's attention — and money — is expected to shift to the presidential and Congressional races in 2012.

He says he is proud of his record, citing efforts to make the city more bicycle-friendly and overhaul a policy for city incentives for developers.

"That all means there is an enormous incentive for the city to move to the long-term plan".

Critics see little incentive for the city to take really difficult steps, like confronting public employees' unions or taxing the nonprofit groups that own more than half of Harrisburg's real estate but pay no property taxes.

Indeed, there's something of a perverse incentive for the city's part-time prosecutors to drag out questionable cases.

For cities, giving incentives to retailers doesn't always work out as planned.