Sentence examples for local development authority from inspiring English sources

Traffic volume on the Yamuna is two-thirds under capacity, according to the local development authority.

We're working with the local development authority in Jamaica, Queens, and that's a competitive process.

The local development authority in Dhaka is involved, and the country's top engineering school is playing a central role.

In the case of the Skiatook deal, Blu Hulsey, the town manager for the community of 4,500, said it had been Mr. Howell and his associates who first approached the local development authority to propose the deal, rather than the other way around.

They'll pay $367 million toward the project over 20 years, with the rest financed by the state and local development authorities.

"Now people look over here and say, 'That place is doing all right,' " said William F. Fagan, an insurance agent and head of the local industrial development authority.

The impetus for change, said Nancy Whitworth, the deputy city manager and the director of the local economic development authority, was the arrival in 1992 of BMW in nearby Spartanburg, S.C., a golden egg that has generated a network of parts and component suppliers throughout the Greenville region, which has a total population of about one million.

Calpers, California's public pension authority, helps finance local development projects; in Alaska, state oil revenues provide each resident with dividends from public investment strategies as a matter of right; in Alabama, public pension investing has long focused on state economic development.

"However, it is the responsibility of local authorities to prepare their local development plan and address the needs of local communities, including affordable housing.

"Local development is the key.

Regional development authorities and local authorities through a new local authority leader's forum will produce a single regional strategy.