Planetizen Newswire
Keep up with essential planning news and commentary, delivered to your inbox every Monday and Thursday.
Mass Resignations From National Park Service Advisory Board
Nine out of 12 members of the National Park Service advisory board resigned this week, saying that the Department of the Interior "showed no interest in learning about or continuing to use the forward-thinking agenda of science," among other claims.
"Three-quarters of the seats on the U.S. National Park Service advisory board are vacant following a mass resignation Monday night, citing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's unwillingness to meet with them," reports Scott Neuman.
Led by former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, nine of the panel's 12 members resigned. "The bipartisan panel was appointed by President Barack Obama and the terms of all members who quit were set to expire in May," according to Neuman.
Knowles presented Zinke with a letter of resignation detailing the board's complaints. Knowles shared more details of the reasoning behind the resignations in an article Alaska Public Media. An article by Juliet Eilperin for The Washington Post also provides more details.
The mass resignation followed closely on an exposé in The New Yorker detailing the "disdain for regulatory processes" at the Department of the Interior under Secretary Zinke's leadership.
Published on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 in
Topics
- 'Guardian Cities' Calls it Quits
- The Rent Gap Theory
- 'Missing Middle Housing Act' Would Allow More Housing Options in Nebraska Residential Areas
- The Best-Selling Master Planned Communities of 2019
- When Cities Are Designed for Driving, Car Bans Are Not the Solution
- Details of Austin's Big 'Project Connect' Transit Plan Emerge
- The City as a Self-Organizing, Adaptive System – Part 2
- Opportunity Zones Under Investigation by Treasury Inspector General
- Opinion: No to the Oakland A's Stadium Project
- Metro L.A. Drafts Frequent Bus Service Plan
- Houston Just as Expensive as New York City, Study Says
- States Mandating Housing Deregulation
- Washington Attempts to Adopt and Cleaner Cars and Clean Fuels Programs
- Study Traces the History of Racism and Urban Heat Islands
- U.S. Transit Ridership Growing Again
- Overcoming the Obstacles of Land Use for Renewable Energy
- Ranking the Climate Impact of Transportation in the 100 Largest U.S. Metro Areas
- Affordable Housing Central to SoHo Rezoning Debate
- Mapping the Land Uses of the United States
- Houston Will Not Be a Fare-Free Transit City
