The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board is investigating complaints that three write-in campaigns for uncontested Cedar Rapids City Council seats failed to file paperwork after seemingly spending over $1,000.
Years in the making, the Iowa City Council approved a zoning code that prioritizes walkable neighborhoods and different types of housing in an effort to transform 900 acres of undeveloped land in the city’s southside.
Group asks for more data on policing but did not endorse police citizens review board at this time.
Though Hunter Companies was under contract to purchase the former Transamerica site, the local developer is not moving forward with purchasing the property.
Supervisors on Thursday approved projects with funds allocated in the current 2022 fiscal year, including payments to residents excluded from federal relief efforts.
The 10th annual Municipal Equality Index showed Iowa City, Dubuque and West Des Moines received a perfect score. Nine cities in Iowa were ranked in the 2021 index.
The program helps people, organizations recover from August 2020 derecho.
Iowa City collaborating on relief spending, affordable housing, child care
Marking a shift in tone from previous forums where partisan divides emerged, the two remaining candidates for Cedar Rapids mayor, Amara Andrews and Tiffany O’Donnell, focused on their visions for improving the city in the last forum before the Nov. 30 runoff.
The Linn County Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to take up the project Nov. 29 at the county fairgrounds
Cedar Rapids mayoral hopefuls Amara Andrews and Tiffany O’Donnell are participating in a Nov. 16 forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s Whipple Auditorium ahead of the Nov. 30 runoff.
Linn County voters on Nov. 2 approved the gaming referendum by a slimmer margin compared with 2013, but the likely developer says he and other investors are pressing forward with Cedar Rapids on identifying a casino location and preparing a license application for the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.
An initial plan for a mixed-use development at the former Transamerica site that sparked widespread concerns among residents is back on the Cedar Rapids City Planning Commission agenda for consideration Nov. 18. Proposed developer Hunter Companies tabled it last month to gather more input before bringing the plan to the panel.
ITC Midwest has given $200,000 to the ReLeaf Program, a partnership between nonprofit Trees Forever and the city of Cedar Rapids, to support tree replanting in Cedar Rapids after the 2020 derecho.
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