Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 8, 2017

New York City Zone Green thick wall exclusion allows for up to 8 inches of wall thickness to be exempted from the calculation of floor area to encourage high performance buildings without decreasing the amount of usable space in the building, including Passive construction. Information is available from events@psssivehousecal.org.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

A new containers-on-barge service, called the M-580 Marine Highway, for shipping ocean containers between the ports of Stockton and Oakland is scheduled to start operations this year. Import containers arrive at the Port of Oakland and are trucked along the I-580/I-5 corridor to distribute centers in the Central Valley.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

as well as co-working space such as Revv Oakland, Beauty Shoppe and StartUptown. The plan, announced July 2012, designates 17 solar energy zones totaling about 285,000 acres of public lands as priority areas for utility-scale solar development.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Baton Rouge, LA has had great success in executing its strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. Lexington is a diversified growth engine for health and educational services, technology, retail trade, and manufacturing.

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MARCH 21, 2014

ENTERPRISE ZONE CREDIT: To stimulate growth in depressed areas of the state, Alabama offers certain tax credit incentives to business that locate or expand within a designated enterprise zone. The requirements are: Program must have written approval from the Alabama Department of Education. LAMBRA zones are a companion to EZs.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

3 Rivers Connect is a nonprofit agency that helps individuals, educators and community leaders use information and technology to make the best possible decisions about the allocation of resources and delivery of services. in Oakland Park is a computer engineering consultancy that develops turnkey computing solutions for its clients.

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