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The following is a round-up of construction projects currently taking place throughout the City of Kirkland:

108th and 68th intersection improvements

The 108th and 68th intersection improvements project will install a westbound to northbound right turn lane and other improvements identified as a part of Sound Transits route timing improvements. These improvements will reduce congestion and allow the intersection to maintain the Citys desired level of service. Sidewalk and curb enhancements at all four corners of the intersection will improve pedestrian safety and maintain a safe school walk route.

Project Facts

Location: 108th Avenue NE and NE 68th Street

Funding Partners: City of Kirkland Capital Improvement Program, Sound Transit.

Project Timeline: The project is under construction and is expected to be complete by the end of June 2012.

Contact: Denise Pirolo, project engineer, at dpirolo@kirklandwa.gov or 425-587-3830

Sidewalk adjacent to Transit Center bus layover project

This project will build a sidewalk (connecting a gap) on the north side of Central Avenue just east of 6th Street where the Transit Center buses layover.

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SOUTH BEND Citing environmental health concerns, the county Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted to veto an ordinance to rezone a piece of land on Indiana 23 to accommodate a retail development.

"I think we need to be sensitive about how we handle sewer in unincorporated areas of the county," Commissioner Bob Kovach, D-District 3, said after the meeting.

The water in the northeast part of the county, including much of Granger, already contains high amounts of nitrates because of the high concentration of septic systems in the area, according to the Health Department.

In an attempt to begin to address the problem, the Regional Water and Sewer District recently embarked on a $2.5 million sewer project in the Granger Business District.

In that environment, and on behalf of Frank Perri, KPS Concepts Inc. petitioned the county to rezone the property at 15684 Indiana 23 from Single Family District to Commercial District back in January.

Perri, a local developer, would like to construct a 9,000-square-foot retail building on the site, which sits on the south side of the road just east of Heritage Square.

Against the recommendation of the Area Plan Commission, and despite opposition from the county Health Department, the County Council approved the petition 9-0 March 13.

In opposing the petition, the plan commission cited the fact that the site does not have access to sewer or water, and that, as part of its comprehensive plan for the area, the city of Mishawaka does not intend to provide those services at this time.

"Therefore," the commission wrote in its report, "rezoning this property to commercial is premature at this time."

For its part, the Health Department expressed concern that the site, which totals about 2.15 acres, is too small to accommodate the type of septic system needed to support the proposed development.

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Tom Fedor/The Gazette Members of the Christian Life Center gather to celebrate the construction of their new church building with a ground breaking on the Ijamsville on Sunday. The church, based in Gaithersburg since 1974, has been housed at Damascus High School for about six weeks.

A church that has been holding services in a Damascus school building is beginning work on a new facility on 64 acres in Frederick County.

The Christian Life Center, based in Gaithersburg since 1974, has been housed at Damascus High School for about six weeks, according to the Rev. Ron Libby. He said the church sold its property to help pay for the new construction.

The high school has been a temporary fix for the 1,000 parishioners who attend each week, Libby said.

The congregation of the new Christian Life Center, at 3154 Green Valley Road in Ijamsville, broke ground Sunday. The church declined to say how much the new church cost. However, its website shows $1.6 million was raised to build the facility in 2008.

The new site is 64 acres up from 6 acres at the Gaithersburg site.

But the switch has challenges, Libby said. The church holds services from 10 a.m. to noon on Sundays at Damascus High School, 25921 Ridge Road in Damascus. The church must bring equipment to the school for services as its needed and dismantle it following the service.

Libby said the new church was needed to ease overcrowding at the churchs previous location, at 11800 Darnestown Road.

Itll be a state-of-the-art building, he said. It will be quite considerably larger. Our sanctuary was packed out down in Gaithersburg.

The churchs new 65,000-square-foot building will seat about 1,200 and includes an area for youth.

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The Mormon church is attempting to remake downtown Salt Lake City by opening the shopping mall portion of a $2 billion mixed-use space that spans two city blocks.

Church partner and retail operator Taubman Centers Inc. expect 50,000 visitors on Thursday, when City Creek Center's nearly 90 stores open.

City Creek Center has outdoor walkways, retractable glass roofs and a winding creek. Waterfalls, fountains and a trout pond are part of the village-like development, which includes condominiums and is joined by a pedestrian bridge over Main Street.

The residential towers were built by City Creek Reserve Inc., a for-profit firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is a multibillion-dollar organization with tentacles in business and real estate.

The church paid for City Creek Center with cash and says no member tithing was used. For the most part, it will be like other shopping malls, except that the stores close on Sundays _ the church wanted the day of peace for its nearby Temple Square.

It will be operated like Taubman Centers' other upscale malls in Los Angeles and Denver, said Robert Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of the Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based company. Two of the restaurants at the Salt Lake City mall will serve liquor, but there are no bars. Its anchors include Macy's, Nordstrom, Tiffany & Co. and the Swedish fashion chain H&M.

Built during the recession, which lowered construction costs, City Creek Center is the only large mall of its size _ around 700,000 square feet _ scheduled to open in the country this year, officials said.

"It's about the rebirth of this city and the fabric of downtown," said Robert Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Taubman Centers Inc., who said the design of City Creek Center was unique.

"We opened the mall to the sky and sunny weather that's here with these amazing retractable roofs," he said.

No other U.S. shopping center has retractable roofs, says Linda Wardell, City Creek Center's general manager.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Construction has commenced at the first village of the new ranch community of Rancho Mission Viejo, comprised of more than 17,000 acres of permanent open space and 6,000 acres of future residential and mixed-use development, according to Anthony R. Moiso, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rancho Mission Viejo, LLC.

Rancho Mission Viejo, Orange County's last working ranch, has been held in the O'Neill/Avery/Moiso family since 1882. Pursuant to a comprehensive County of Orange-approved open space preservation and land use management plan for the Ranch, approximately 75% will be preserved as part of a larger habitat conservation area known as The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo and 25% will be developed into multiple villages.

Combined with additional open spaces already dedicated by the Rancho Mission Viejo family, The Reserve will grow over time to nearly 21,000 acres. Ultimately, The Reserve will be combined with County-owned lands to form the 33,000-acre Southern Subregion Habitat Reserve, one of California's largest and most diverse habitat reserves.

"Our partners, DMB Associates, and all of us at Ranch Headquarters, are honored, proud and excited to make this announcement today," said Moiso. "For nearly fifty years, our family has kept our ranch intact, perpetuating our ranching and farming heritage while helping the region meet and manage its growth through the establishment of the planned communities of Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Las Flores, and Ladera Ranch. Today, with the start of construction at this new village on the Ranch and the phased enrollment of land into The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo, this legacy of land stewardship continues."

Multiple villages are planned to be developed on a total of 6,000 acres of the Ranch. Collectively, over the next two decades, these villages are expected to offer 14,000 homes (including 6,000 active adult residences) and five million square feet of non-residential uses. In addition, schools, parks and recreational facilities, shopping and employment centers will be developed, as well as an inter-connected system of arterial roadways and hiking/biking trails carefully integrated with some of the Ranch's agrarian spaces and natural habitat.

"Since 1882, our family has understood that the blessings of landownership are matched by our obligation to be a good neighbor and a responsible contributor to the community," said Moiso. "This culture of care has been at the heart of every community we've created. It is the foundation of the ongoing development of Rancho Mission Viejo."

The first village on the Ranch will be Sendero, currently scheduled to open in summer 2013. Encompassing approximately 690 acres and offering approximately 940 attached and detached homes and 200 apartment units, Sendero will include the gated active adult enclave of Gavilan, providing 285 single-level residences adjacent to a private clubhouse and recreational facilities. Among the amenities planned for all Sendero residents are a centrally located community hall, clubhouse and recreational core, a 15-acre community park, neighborhood parks, hiking/biking trails accessing Reserve trails and a County Regional hiking and biking trails network, a 10-acre retail plaza, fire station, and a child day care center.

Sendero and Gavilan homebuilders include Meritage Homes, Ryland Homes, SeaCountry Homes, Shea Homes, Standard Pacific Homes, The Pulte Group, TRI Pointe Homes, William Lyon Homes, and Western National Group.

"We are very enthusiastic to begin developing homes in Sendero on the Ranch," said Bert Selva, President and Chief Executive Officer of Shea Homes. "The superb, scenic and coastal-close south Orange County location combined with quick and easy proximity to both urban centers and regional parks, makes the Ranch a prime location for a new community in Orange County. We look forward to the grand opening of Sendero and Gavilan next year."

Rancho Mission Viejo and the first village of Sendero are located in the heart of south Orange County, just 2.3 miles from downtown San Juan Capistrano and five miles from the coastal attractions of San Clemente and Dana Point Harbor.

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A general view shows Kensington Palace, what used to be the official residence of the late Princess Diana, in London, March 20, 2012.

Kensington Palace - part museum, part royal abode - is reopening to the public after a two-year, 12-million-pound ($19-million) makeover designed to give visitors a sense of what it is like to live in a centuries-old building that has witnessed both affairs of state and affairs of the heart.

Senior curator Joanna Marschner said she hopes the renovated building will shake up preconceptions about royal palaces, offering both the "big, glorious, golden rooms" that people expect, and a trove of more personal, revealing items - from Queen Victoria's baby shoes to Princess Diana's little black dress.

Tucked into Kensington Gardens, a public park in central London, Kensington Palace is a warm red-brick contrast to gray Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II's London home.

It was home to six British monarchs, including Victoria, who spent her childhood here, and now contains several royal "apartments" - actually Georgian houses, one of which William and Kate will move into next year.

It also has dozens of rooms that are open to the public. The public side of the palace reopens Monday, in time for a busy tourist season that includes the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June and the summer Olympics.

Many visitors will head straight for a ground-floor display of dresses belonging to the palace's most famous recent occupant, Princess Diana. She lived here for 16 years after her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981. After her death in a Paris car crash in 1997, thousands of mourners came to leave flowers outside the palace gates.

Display cases hold garments including a black silk taffeta gown by Emanuel, a Versace cocktail dress and a fuchsia Catherine Walker gown, alongside sketches of the garments and photographs - all revealing, according to curator Deirdre Murphy, "Diana's evolving style and the important role fashion played in creating her public image."

Upstairs is an exhibition devoted to Victoria, the only British monarch before the current queen to reach 60 years on the throne.

It includes the room where she was born and the room where in 1837 she was informed, at age 18, that her uncle had died and she was queen.

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The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled unanimously in favor of an Idaho couple seeking to have their day in court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that scuttled plans to build their dream home on a subdivided lot the EPA said was a federal wetland.

The couple, Chantell and Michael Sackett, had started to fill the home site with dirt and gravel to prepare for construction. But the EPA intervened, announcing that the property was a regulated wetland. Agency officials ordered the couple to restore the land to its original state or face up to $75,000 a day in fines.

The Sacketts disputed the EPAs wetland designation and filed a lawsuit to litigate the issue in federal court.

The EPA argued that the Sacketts lawsuit must be dismissed because the EPAs Clean Water Act compliance order did not amount to final agency action.

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A federal judge and the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the EPA and threw the suit out. Facing bankrupting daily fines and no clear avenue for judicial review, the Sacketts took their case to the Supreme Court.

In a unanimous decision on Wednesday, the high court said the Sacketts are entitled to challenge the EPA order in federal court.

The Sacketts may bring a civil action [under the Administrative Procedure Act] to challenge the issuance of the EPAs order, Justice Antonin Scalia said in a statement from the bench announcing the decision. The APA provides for judicial review of final agency action for which there is no other adequate remedy in court, he said.

The justices did not rule that the couple may proceed with construction of their home on the disputed tract. Instead, the high court decision sets the stage for a federal judge to examine the EPA order. In effect, the Sacketts won the opportunity to present their case to a neutral judge.

We are very thankful to the Supreme Court for affirming that we have rights and that the EPA is not beyond the control of the courts and the Constitution, Mr. Sackett said in a written statement.

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Published: March. 21, 2012 at 4:43 PM

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 21 (UPI) -- Canada's Cabinet is expected to approve opening a project office to buy new fixed-wing search-and-rescue planes for the Canadian air force.

The $3.1 billion replacement plan, designed to replace air force C-115 Buffalos and older model C-130-H fixed-wing transport aircraft, has been delayed by controversy and bureaucratic infighting for nearly a decade.

Potential bidders were recently informed that a formal tender isn't expected until 2013, CBC News Nova Scotia reported.

Adding to the program's delays have been accusations that the air force had tilted the specifics of the acquisition program in favor of the C-27-J Spartan, built by the Italian company Alenia.

Should the Canadian air force want to procure C-27-J Spartans, a possible second-hand source could appear close by, as the U.S. Air Force recently announced that it intended to sell its Spartan transports, both existing and those scheduled for delivery.

The sale would be part of the recently announced U.S. Department of Defense budget cuts, but the C-27-J Spartan sale would need congressional approval.

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