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	Wide Streets Commission - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Wide Streets Commission was established by Dublin Corporation in 1757 as a body to govern standards on the layout of streets, bridges, buildings and other architectural considerations.
		Over the following decades, the commission reshaped the old medieval city of Dublin, and created a network of main thoroughfares by wholescale demolition or widening of old streets or the creation of entirely new ones.
		Dame Street, College Green, Christchurch and George's Street are also the result of the project of widening Georgian Dublin's congested streets.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wide_Streets_Commission (236 words)

	The Bicycle Network
		The City of Philadelphia is developing a city-wide network of ``bike friendly" streets to serve bicyclists as part of a comprehensive programwhich gives full recognition to the bicycle as a viable mode of transportation.
		The goals of the Network Plan are to increase the percentage of trips made by bicycle to 5% of all trips, and to simultaneously reduce by 10% the number of bicyclists killed or injured in traffic accidents.
		The bicycle routes will be on existing streets that require only simple treatments such as signing and pavement markings to better accommodate bicyclists, as well as on streets where various physical constraints will need to be addressed.
	www.phila.gov /streets/the_bicycle_network.html (366 words)

	Seanad Éireann - Volume 116 - 08 July, 1987 - Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission: Motion (Resumed).
		The commission was to be given a time span of only three years and at the end of that time there was a clear realisation that the powers and duties relative to the designated part of the city would be returned to Dublin City Council and to the Dublin Transport Authority.
		Frank Feely, would be a member of the seven person commission and that should have allayed the fears of those who claimed that the powers of the local authority were in some way to be massively eroded, of course, it did not allay the political antagonism which was by then in full spate.
		The Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission were there to assist them for just three years to give them new ideas and let them get on with the work until the commission would be dissolved having completed their work after three years.
	www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /S/0116/S.0116.198707080011.html (10270 words)

	Wide
		To be ruled a wide, the umpire at the bowler's end must judge that the batsman is unable to play a normal batting stroke at the ball from his normal batting stance.
		Wides are considered to be the fault of the bowler, and are recorded as a negative statistic in a bowler's record.
		A rough analogue of a wide in baseball is the wild pitch.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DWide (448 words)

	Wide Streets Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wide Streets Commission was established by Dublin Corporation in 1757 as a body to govern standards on the layout of streets, bridges, buildings and other architectural considerations.
		Over the following decades, the commission reshaped the old medieval city of Dublin, and created a network of main thoroughfares by wholescale demolition or widening of old streets or the creation of entirely new ones.
		Dame Street, College Green, Christchurch and George's Street are also the result of the project of widening Georgian Dublin's congested streets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wide_Streets_Commission (214 words)

	LGC: Community Design: Street Design
		The result is wide streets and long blocks that encourage speeding and discourage walking and bicycling.
		Street Design Guidelines for Healthy Neighborhoods was written by Dan Burden, director of Walkable Communities, with assistance from a team that included two traffic engineers, an urban designer and a citizen planner.
		Streets and Sidewalks, People and Cars: A Citizens' Guide to Traffic Calming, by Dan Burden, provides detailed information for local government officials and residents on how to retrofit streets to slow the traffic.
	www.lgc.org /community_design/street.html (1198 words)

	SABA Letter
		Rationale: Narrower streets are recommended by Dan Burden to reduce speeds by making streets "yield streets" so automotive traffic must slow down to pass.
		Narrower streets result in a 5 to 20 percent reduction in impervious area for a typical subdivision and an associated reduction in urban runoff.
		Wide gutter pans greatly reduce the usable space in bike lanes.
	www.sacbike.org /letters/viewletter.php3?L_ID=342 (701 words)

	O'Connell Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The centre of the street is dominated by the imposing presence of the 1818 General Post Office (GPO) with its hexastyle Ionic portico projecting over the west pavement, and the 120m (393ft) Spire of Dublin, a needle-like self supporting sculpture of rolled stainless steel erected in 2003.
		The Wide Streets Commission had envisaged and realised marching terraces of unified and porportioned facades extending from the river as far north as Princes Street, their simple red brick elevations off-set with a major classical cut stone building near the centre (later to be the GPO built in 1814-18).
		O'Connell Street was again the scene of a pitched battle in July 1922, on the outbreak of the Irish Civil War, when anti-treaty fighters under Oscar Traynor occupied the street after Free State troops attacked the republican garrison in the nearby Four Courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/O'Connell_Street (2860 words)

	CAPE COD COMMISSION ACT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The commission shall be an agency within the structure of Barnstable county government pursuant to this act, and shall operate in accordance with Barnstable county administrative and budgetary procedures and in accordance with the provisions of section eighteen.
		The commission shall submit its final regional policy plan to the county commissioners and to the members of the assembly of delegates, with a request that an ordinance be introduced for its adoption as the Cape Cod regional policy plan.
		All of the commission's written decisions shall be filed with the clerk of the commission and notices of such decisions shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or municipalities in which the proposed development is located.
	www.capecodcommission.org /act.htm (10070 words)

	Cosmopolitan commerce: the Dublin goldsmith Robert Calderwood: in the first detailed reconstruction of the career of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The minutes of the Wide Streets Commissioners of Dublin, established in 1757, record testimonies from tenants in the area, as well as specifying the compensation that was ultimately allocated to principal householders.
		By the time that the Wide Streets Commissioners convened he was nearing the end of his life, and he died before compensation was granted.
		In due course the Wide Streets Commissioners granted Mary Calderwood 2,200 [pounds sterling] in compensation for her brother's house.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-136510805.html (4853 words)

	UN Commission on Human Rights Thematic Reports -
		The Commission also reminded Governments of the need to ensure that their competent authorities conducted prompt and impartial inquiries whenever there was reason to believe that an enforced disappearance had occurred in a territory under their jurisdiction and recalled that, if allegations were confirmed, perpetrators should be prosecuted.
		In its resolution 1995/40, the Commission invited once again the working groups and the special rapporteurs to pay attention, within the framework of their mandates, to the situation of persons detained, subjected to violence, illtreated or discriminated against for having exercised the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
		In its resolution 1995/53, the Commission invited its special rapporteurs and representatives, as well as working groups to continue to include in their recommendations, whenever appropriate, proposals for specific projects to be realized under the programme of advisory services.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/commission/thematic52/1996_38.htm (17527 words)

	The Commission
		The Commission was bestowed upon me by my people: to be born, to work, to fight, to speak and to lead, for which I am humbly grateful.
		The Commission, therefore, is not from my people to me, alone, or from me to my people, alone, but from both to each.
		The school across the street was burned to the ground, leaving me with such a feeling of sickness and sadness that I could not bear to look on the ruins.
	www.nationalist.org /docs/books/commission.html (20270 words)

	President's New Freedom Commission on MH: Report to the President: Goal 1
		In fact, a wide array of effective mental health services and treatments is available to allow children and adults to be vital contributors to their communities.
		The Commission urges swiftly implementing and enhancing the NSSP to serve as a blueprint for communities and all levels of government.
		The Commission recommends reviewing existing scientific literature and initiating new studies to examine the impact of mental health and mental illnesses on physical illnesses and health.
	www.mentalhealthcommission.gov /reports/FinalReport/FullReport-02.htm (2865 words)

	COMMISSION ACTIONS MAY 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Commission review, on appeal by the applicant, of the April 13, 2005, decision by the Norfolk Wetlands Board to deny a permit to install 300 linear feet of riprap and fill 4,500 square feet of vegetated wetlands at his property situated along Mason Creek in Norfolk.
		The Commission voted, 6-1, to approve the after-the-fact permit conditional upon non-commercial use and a levied triple permit fee and a civil charge of $1,200 in lieu of further action.
		The Commission voted 7-0, to approve a public notice for public hearings in July on the Eastern Shore, the Northern Neck and in Gloucester County and at the Commission's July 26th meeting in Newport News.
	www.mrc.state.va.us /commission_summaries/cs0505.shtm (1326 words)

	BOONE COUNTY PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
		If the Commission approves this tonight they are going to be setting a standard for the other developments that are going to be coming as they inevitably will, the trail has been there for 10 or 15 years now and this development has been slow in coming.
		Something else, though the Commission doesn’t care about disputes between landowners, another issue is that this was planned several years ago to do this, yet when they were selling the lots on the bluff, their representation was that nothing would be done down there.
		If the Commission is going to do something like that, Commissioner Sloan stated that she hasn’t heard anything that will make her vote for anything more than a one-year renewal, that is the way it would have to be so the Commission can see what develops.
	www.showmeboone.com /PB/WebPublish/PZCommission/Minutes/2002/20020516.htm (22949 words)

	Wide Streets Commission - Definition, explanation
		Over the following decades, the commission reshaped the old medieval city of Dublin, and created a network of main thoroughfares by wholescale demolition or widening of old streets or the creation of entirely new ones.
		The building of Parliament Street and the Royal Exchange, now Dublin City Hall to create a vista from across the river Liffey on Capel Street soon followed.
		Dame Street, College Green, Christchurch and George's Street are also the result of the project of widening Georgian Dublin's congested streets.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wi/wide_streets_commission.php (212 words)

	Dublin Tourism - Old City Heritage Walking Trail of Dublin
		The street was given its present proportions in the 1780s by the Wide Streets Commission.
		A large area between Patrick Street and Bride Street was cleared of tenements and rebuilt as a residential complex for the poor through the generosity of Edward Cecil Guinness, first Earl of Iveagh and a member of the famous brewing family.
		Grattan Bridge, at the bottom of Parliament Street, was built under the name of Essex Bridge in 1678 by Sir Humphrey Jervis, who was developing land on the opposite side of the river and built Capel Street and the bridge to connect his properties advantageously to the Castle.
	www.visitdublin.com /pda/tours/oldcity2.asp (8570 words)

	Interim Report for the President
		The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established as part of the President's agenda to ensure that Americans with mental illness not fall through the cracks, that lives not be lost, and that recovery be a realistic goal of treatment.
		The Commission held a meeting in Chicago to grasp firsthand the challenges that youth and families face, and it plans to hold meetings elsewhere in the United States.
		The Commission has heard from families whose children could not get an accurate diagnosis for years and for whom the maze of "helping" programs is "opaque," in the words of a father from Chicago.
	www.mentalhealthcommission.gov /reports/Interim_Report.htm (8695 words)

	Georgian Dublin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first move towards becoming a Georgian city actually occurred during the reign of King Charles II when the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Ormonde (later made Duke of Ormonde) issued an instruction which was to have dramatic repercussions for the city as it exists today.
		Many of the streets in the new areas were named after the property developers, often with developers commemorated both in their name and by their peerage when the received one.
		The world's longest row of Georgian houses, running from the corner of Merrion Square down to Lesson Street Bridge, was sliced in two by the decision of the Irish government in the early 1960s to demolish part of the row and replace them by a modern office block.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgian_Dublin (2335 words)

	Narrow Streets Slow Traffic - Sprawl - Sierra Club
		Using this regression, a typical 36 foot wide residential street has 1.21 a/m/y (Ed: accidents/mile-year) as opposed to 0.32 for a 24 foot wide street, the street with the least a/m/y.
		Included are some measured effects on driver's speeds; narrowing existing streets (with no landscape strip) by adding landscape strips between the sidewalk and the street; and the relationship between street width and housing costs.
		In the San Francisco area, an extensive survey of residential streets was conducted with magnetic imaging counters that were able to collect a broader range of data.
	www.sierraclub.org /sprawl/articles/narrow.asp (1978 words)

	WIDE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Women have also brought their working tools in the streets: on the 14th of May you will see them making clothes in the streets: they belong to a textile factory whose boss did not pay their salaries for a full year and fled in December 2001.
		The women took the factory over but after another year they were evicted: one of their leaders, Celia, made a famous speech on the 1st of May this year and has now become the symbol of the workers.
		Women learn in the streets, learn where they are, learn in resistance movements where loneliness is beaten, learn to strike in everyday life as well as in workplaces, learn to be pro-active, to take over.” "Resistance is the source of knowledge" (Maria Mies).
	www.eurosur.org /wide/Globalisation/gats.htm (3449 words)

	MurderInc.COM - THE COMMISSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		To truly track the history of the Commission, one would have to go back all the way back to the last half of the 1800's, back during when immigrant gangs developed to "protect" their neighborhoods.
		Even before the Commission was officially formed in 1931, a meeting between most of the crime bosses along the eastern seaboard and others across the country took place in Atlantic City in 1929.
		Although the Commission was "national," the power it had truly affected the eastern boarders and was more or less respected amongst the rest of the country.
	www.murderinc.com /fam/commiss.html (953 words)

	ET 9/99: How Wide Is My Roadway?
		Cities that use the old "one size fits all" approach to road standards don't understand that the standards that we have been using since the 1960s were designed by traffic engineers whose sole responsibility was to provide for the movement of traffic in greater volumes or at greater speeds.
		Almost without exception, neighborhoods that have narrow, meandering streets are more desirable to live in than neighborhoods that have excessively wide and straight streets.
		Streets with excessive on-street parking induce homeowners to park cars on the street rather than in garages.
	www.sdearthtimes.com /et0999/et0999s2.html (888 words)

	the national commission on the elderly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It is a relatively new entity which was established in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission appointed in 1996 by the Minister of Labour, Health and Housing.
		That Commission (1996) was mandated to make recommendations for the enhancement of the quality of life of the Elderly in Guyana.
		THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE ELDERLY is yet in its infancy and is in the process of formulating its programmes and strategies of operation.
	www.sdnp.org.gy /mohss/elderlycommission.html (255 words)

	Wide Streets Commission
		Wide Streets Commission is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		By contrast the northern end proved not to be as successful initially; being exposed to the commercial activity of the lower street it lost its fashionability as a quiet enclave of grand to...
		Much of the street was reduced to rubble, the damaged areas including the whole eastern side of the street as far north as Cathedral Street, an...
	www.experiencefestival.com /wide_streets_commission (2110 words)

	Alan B. Cohen, Architect AIA
		Prior to WWII, the traditional neighborhood street was in the range of 28'-30' wide with corner radius of 5'-10'.
		Since that time, the typical local street has grown to a width of 36' with a corner radius of 25'.
		They are demanding more livable street design that account for all constituents of the road system, not just cars and emergency vehicles.
	www.sonic.net /abcaia/narrow.htm (1133 words)

	Park Slope Rezoning - New York City Department of City Planning
		These alternate regulations (called the Quality Housing Program) permit a maximum FAR of 2.2 and building height of 55' on narrow streets in R6 districts, and, on wide streets, a maximum FAR of 3.0 and a maximum building height of 70'.
		This building on 2nd Street is an example of recent construction that used the optional contextual regulations.
		Buildings on these streets are four to six stories tall with ground floor commercial uses and residential apartments on the upper floors.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dcp/html/parkslope/parkslope2.shtml (531 words)

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