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The people behind Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE), a new 2,047-seat theater planned for Bellevue, have filed an application for design review with the city. An application for environmental review has been filed as well.

Seattle's Department of Planning and Development (DPD) will be hosting two free landslide awareness meetings for city residents to learn how to protect their property from landslides. Landslides, which are common in Seattle, develop gradually through normal erosion and weathering or develop more suddenly after earthquakes and torrential rains.

Most people would agree: Commuting to work is no fun. Yet according to a survey released by IBM Corp. last month, most people aren't quite willing to give up their cars and try something different.

The Northwest isn’t the only region undergoing serious budget cuts to planning and neighborhood development departments. Natchez, Miss., a city of about 20,000, will soon find itself with a completely empty Planning and Zoning Department. City planner John Lewis and two other employees were laid off last week, and the department’s sole remaining employee, Darlene Lewis, will retire on Oct. 14.

The Transportation Research Board hosted a webinar Tuesday that highlighted local efforts to address climate change in land use and transportation planning.

King County Council implemented new updates to the Farmland Preservation Program (FPP) at its meeting on Oct. 5.

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In order to better inform property owners and better serve emergency responders, Seattle is reassessing which areas of the city are most prone to flooding, according to a press release. The re-mapping effort, which uses new technology in conjunction with data from record-setting 2007 floods, is the first update to Seattle’s flood prone areas since 1987.

The American Planning Association (APA) announced today that Spokane neighborhood Browne’s Addition has been designated one of 10 Great Neighborhoods for 2009 by APA's Great Places in America program, according to a City of Spokane press release. Great Places are selected annually and "represent the gold standard in terms of having a true sense of place, cultural and historical interest, community involvement and a vision for tomorrow," according to the APA website.

Two brothers in Skagit County are turning brown stuff into green energy. With their new digester, which went online Sept. 28, Kevin and Daryl Maas are able to turn 55,000 gallons of liquid cow manure into enough clean energy to power 500 homes every day.