Teams claim to be part of the civic fabric of an area when they ask for fan loyalty.

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Its current civic ambition is to be officially declared a depressed area.

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The Chippenham Chamber of Commerce, the Civic Society, the town council, the Community Area Partnership and the local economic partnership have also opposed the plan.

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On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.

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Trencheny, who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, participated in Code for Oakland, a civic hackathon for Oakland, California, now entering its second year.

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"I think it needs to be much smaller - we do not need a massive retail park in the area, " Susan McEntee of the Greasley and District Civic Society said.

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The downtown area today has precious few places to park a car (and the civic architecture is most charitably described as mediocre).

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Moreover, establishing a part of Ardmore as a redevelopment area came after a lengthy and inclusive process involving extensive input from business, civic leaders and residents.

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