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Raleigh's Parking Administrator Gordon Dash says a small percentage of drunk and rambunctious people who park for free in city-owned decks on nights and weekends are doing everything from vandalizing elevators, to leaving personal trash in the stairwells.

"It started out great, but we're really finding that there's a revelry crowd, which is common with nightlife, which sticks around a lot longer than other folks when they go home, and they're the ones most responsible for what's happening in our parking decks," Dash said. "Broken bottles, there's also the human waste factor as well, unfortunately. Those things take a long time to clean up and the smells have to be dealt with. "

"Elevators are often out of commission for days at a time and the ones who feel the brunt of that are the daytime customers who pay for parking and they expect a whole lot better service when they come in to work," he added.

Dash is asking the Raleigh City Council to consider charging for parking on nights and weekends - anything from a $5 flat fee, to a $1 an hour.

The city council has considered that fee before, and some say the City is now using this problem to justify the fee to help pay off debts.

However, Dash says the problems are real, and instead of maintaining and repairing parts of the deck, maintenance crews have now become janitors.

"About 60 percent of their duties now are on the janitorial and they were never expected to be that when they first started," he said.

Based on previous figures, the City could stand to gain about $1 million in revenue if they charged a $5 flat fee for night and weekend parking.

Dash expects city council to take up the issue again in their upcoming work session.

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A passion for alternative sports has led Mandan High School junior Corey Peterson to design and craft custom skate decks.

During the winter, Peterson can be found on his snowboard, while during the other seasons he is on a skateboard or shooting paintballs.

"Ive been skateboarding for four years, snowboarding for three years and paintballing for two," said Peterson, who consider skateboarding to be his favorite of the three.

"Ive used skateboarding as something to do whenever something happens or when Im mad or sad," Peterson said. "I find it more freeing."

That passion has led him to customize decks by sanding the graphics off a board, stenciling or sketching a design onto it and using a bandsaw to cut the designs into the board and shape it.

After thats done, a new graphic can be put onto it. Then the board is polyurethaned to make it look new.

The time it takes for this process can be from less than one hour to more than three hours. Once the new board is finished, it can then be a wall hanger or used to skate.

"Skateboarding has been more of the core of my life than anything else. Its more me," said Peterson, who also skates in competitions.

During a competition in September, Peterson took third place one day for an event, and second the next day.

"I love skating in competitions not because I want to win but because they bring everyone in the skateboarding community together, said Peterson, who hosts the Mandan Jam in June along with senior Dylan Kahl and junior Zack Eckroth.

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INGRAM Seven candidates, including an incumbent alderman and a former Ingram mayor, are vying for three open seats on the Ingram City Council.

Those who filed for places on the ballot by Fridays deadline included Hunter St. Clair, J. Nathan White, Claude Jordan Jr., Kenneth Kenny Avans, Twanda Brown, Nelda Mitchell and former mayor Howard Jackson.

Mitchell, who handles accounts payable for Ingram ISD, has lived in the city for 59 years two weeks shy of all her life. Her nephew is Ingram Mayor Pro Tem Brandon Rowan and Whites wife is her niece. Mitchell, whos been attending council meetings on and off for the past year and a half or so, said shes seeking a place on the council in order to keep things moving forward for the people of Ingram. She said the citys efforts to get properties off septic systems and onto a central sewer system must continue.

The sewer project thats very important to our environment, and we need to finish, Mitchell said Friday. I just want to work hard and do my best for the city of Ingram.

St. Clair, who manages the Hunt Ingram Gas Co., has lived in the city for 48 years. He was appointed to the council two years ago to fill a vacancy.

I have the opportunity to serve, so I just threw my hat into the ring and well see how it goes, St. Clair said. Ill do it as long as I have the opportunity.

Brown, 54, works at the U.S. Post Office and has lived in West Kerr County and Ingram for 31 years. She lost to James Salter in the last mayoral election. Brown did not respond to requests for comment.

Jordan, 43, has lived in Ingram all his life and owns Bennett Jordan Septic Co.

Our roads are all tore up, Jordan said. I want to try to see if we can get something done about our roads. All of our roads in Ingram, they are old and need to be maintained and taken care of.

Avans, 45, is a head construction supervisor for F&B Concrete and has lived in Ingram almost a decade.

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Patrols have been stepped up after sneak thieves targeted homes on a Stockport street searching for unlocked doors.

The burglaries happened on Hillcrest Road, Offerton, between Sunday (February 28) at 9.30pm and 12.30pm the following day.

Residents woke on Monday to discover their homes had fallen victim.

One had a coat and clothes worth a total of 600 taken, another had boots valued at 150, pet accessories and 2 in cash stolen.

At least two other homes or sheds were targeted but the thieves were unable to find anything to steal.

Inspector Steve Gilbertson, from Stockport police, said officers had been giving the area extra attention.

He added: "People can leave things in the porch that individually may not be worth that much but can soon add up.

"We have four victims of crime on the same street so we want to raise awareness that there are people who will take a chance and be opportunistic, taking what they can."

Another warning has been issued after two houses on Broadway, in Bramhall, were also targeted.

A thief sneaked into a home on Wednesday (February 25) at 11.15am and took the keys to a blue Ford Sirocco before escaping in it.

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When the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport closed 16 years ago, leaving open 700 acres of real estate close to the Austin city center, developers saw the perfect for a planned community. In 2007, construction began on the Mueller Community, which many now hold as a model of modern master-planning in the new urbanism vein; transit-oriented yet focused on the needs of pedestrians. A recent installment in NPR's cities project highlights what else Mueller may be getting right.

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Greg Weaver, Mueller project manager with Catellus Development, spoke with NPR about the theories behind the community. Instead of taking the shape of an expansive grid, Mueller is purposefully dense, with small yards and large front porches. Garages are at the back of houses, which further downplays the primacy of cars. But Weaver insists Mueller isn't too utopic:

"I mean, the whole idea of porches is a bit of a cliche, but it works," Adams continues, speaking from the back deck of his home in Mueller. "People are on their porches, people know their neighbors. It's a very convivial place."

A research team at Texas A&M University polled Mueller residents and proved Weaver's vision might really be working: residents spend an average of 90 fewer minutes a week in their cars, and report increased levels of physical activity, decreased use of electricity, and even more friends. Alexa Carrasco

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