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Developers rehabbing old buildings to get help 

Developers rehabbing old buildings to get help 
Developers frustrated with the confusing process of redeveloping old buildings now have a specific office in the city of Phoenix dedicated to helping them out.

Springdale : Landlord registry proposed for city 
SPRINGDALE Larry Gibson says he works hard to provide a dry, safe and clean place to live for tenants in his 44 rental units. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

New Delhi’s vertical ambition aims to ease overcrowding 
Traffic clogging a junction of the Chawri Bazaar in New Delhi. It is a scene much-photographed by backpackers to India. But the city authorities view it as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the city and a master plan calls for new space to house the city’s exploding population by growing vertically.

PUBLIC AGENCIES 
Board of Commissioners of the Trust Funds, 4 p.m., City Council chamber.

Duke snaps up hot property 
Duke Realty is at it again in Blue Ash, locking up 29 acres for a $100 million office project on the last large contiguous piece of developable property in the city.

California Fires Force Evacuation of 1,200 in Orange County 
March 12 (Bloomberg) — About 1,200 people were forced to evacuate their homes as a wildfire swept across more than 2,000 acres of land, destroying at least four buildings in southern California’s Orange County, emergency authorities said.

City staff focuses on next two years 
The Vacaville City Council, department heads and other staff met in a marathon session Friday morning to start discussions about priorities and projects over the next two years.

Brush fire burns near homes in Orange County 
ANAHEIM HILLS, 10:38 a.m. March 11 (AP): A fast-moving brush fire scorched 150 acres of parched hillside Sunday about a half-mile from a housing development but did not threaten any buildings, Orange County fire officials said.

RECLAIMING THE NEIGHBORHOODS: Forgotten but not gone 
RECLAIMING THE NEIGHBORHOOD | SECOND OF A THREE-PART SERIES: In the ghost of a neighborhood off East McNichols near Davison, the few who stay say they’ve been neglected by the city.

Sunni militants burn several homes in Iraq 
Sunni militants burned homes in a mixed city northeast of Baghdad on Saturday and Sunday, forcing dozens of families to flee and raising the specter of a new intimidation tactic in Iraq’s evolving civil war, Iraqi officials and witnesses said.

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