The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities...
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Land trusts are nonprofit organizations which own and manage land, and sometimes waters. There are three common types of land trust, distinguished from...
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manage land which are referred to as either public lands or the public domain. The majority of public lands in the United States are held in trust for the...
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powers, starting with the National Trust Act 1907. Historically, the Trust acquired land by gift and sometimes by public subscription and appeal, but after...
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The concept of public trust relates back to the origins of democratic government and its seminal idea that within the public lies the true power and future...
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property, over 745 school gardens, over 100 gardens in land trusts, and over 700 gardens at public housing developments throughout New York City. The community...
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visited the San Francisco offices of The Trust for Public Land in 1977 where they learned about land-trust finance and management. They decided to form...
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The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban land trust founded in 2012 with the goals of returning traditionally Chochenyo and Karkin lands in the San Francisco...
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The Land Trust is a British charity, based in Warrington, Cheshire, which owns or manages open spaces restored from derelict land for public benefit. Its...
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through the acquisition of battlefield land. The American Battlefield Trust was formerly known as the Civil War Trust. On May 8, 2018, the organization announced...
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Hollywood Sign (redirect from Hollywood Sign Trust)
Sign Trust, the organization covered each letter of the sign with large banners reading "SAVE THE PEAK". On April 26, 2010, the Trust for Public Land announced...
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conservation goals. Conservation land trusts often work in cooperation with landowners to achieve shared goals and may provide public outreach events on the themes...
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The public trust doctrine is the principle that the sovereign holds in trust for public use some resources such as shoreline between the high and low...
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public rallied and were able to procure the tract for the state park. The final $13.5 million sale price was negotiated by The Trust for Public Land,...
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1946 until 2010. It was purchased by local communities and the Trust for Public Land in 2015, with plans to reopen a smaller version of a ski area, and...
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previously organized as a publicly traded trust taxed as a corporation, and operated under the name Texas Pacific Land Trust. TPL has two business lines:...
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2007-09-27. "Hoboken Cove". The Trust for Public Land. Strunsky, Steve (6 October 2016). "Hoboken council approves $30M land deal for new park". NJ Advance Media...
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for the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and the New York Restoration Project to purchase 112 of the gardens. On March 21, 2004, the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust...
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visited by the public. On October 10, 2014, Barack Obama designated the area the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. The Trust for Public Land has protected...
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Atlanta Beltline (section Concept for transformation)
In 2004, The Trust for Public Land commissioned Alexander Garvin to produce a report, The Beltline Emerald Necklace: Atlanta's New Public Realm. This report...
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Adrian Benepe (section Government and public service)
inclusion of schoolyards for public access after school. After retiring from the Parks Department, Benepe joined The Trust for Public Land as Senior Vice President...
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miles (3.9 km2), all of it land. San Geronimo was once the home of the San Geronimo Golf Course. In 2018, The Trust for Public Land purchased the 157-acre...
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state lands surrounding those managed by the U.S. Government. The Trust for Public Land has protected 67,000 acres (27,000 ha) over about 40 projects in...
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Trust for Public Land, the town of Grafton, the Grafton Land Trust, the Nipmuc Nation and the state of Massachusetts intervened. The Trust for Public...
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The Trust for Public Land. Retrieved 2018-08-23. "Designed for green play, a South Philly schoolyard wins recognition". The Trust for Public Land. Retrieved...
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some funding from the Trust for Public Land and others; both were given to the city. They were then designated as sanctuaries for water birds. According...
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investment trust when REITs were introduced in the UK in January 2007. It is headquartered in London, England and is a founding member of the European Public Real...
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National Monument was created. In 2006, The Trust for Public Land purchased the 415-acre (167.9 ha) Estate Maho Bay for preservation. The property includes beaches...
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"In God We Trust" (also rendered as "In God we trust") is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along...
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10-Minute Walk to a Park, is a parks-advocacy movement led by The Trust for Public Land to ensure that everyone in the United States lives within a ten-minute...
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