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The Age
07-06-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Coastal village wins 10-year fight to stop housing sprawl
Cape Paterson Residents and Ratepayers Association spokesman John Coulter said the decision was a big win for the community. The group had argued against the development at planning panels for the better part of a decade. The group was sometimes accused of having a not-in-my-backyard mentality, Coulter said, but he noted that existing development of 240 homes on the western side of town was already adding to traffic concerns and pressure on unsealed roads. Another key complaint has been the environmental effects of developing the landscape north of the town. New reports were introduced as part of the state's review late last year but those in favour of the development argue they were never given a fair chance to rebut the findings. 'It's not just about keeping the village feel of the township. It was the environmental concerns and traditionally ... That's mostly what we do,' Coulter said. 'We do revegetation of the foreshore. We work with Parks Victoria … It's a real struggle sometimes to have to get involved in this planning stuff because it's incredibly complex. Loading 'There is a sense of relief that we've got to the end of that process, and that we've got an outcome that the community has been asking for a long, long time.' Cape Paterson is among many coastal communities facing development pressure as more Victorians seek a sea change, often creating political headaches. In 2018, Victorian Labor attacked the Coalition for allowing a 'grossly expanded' town boundary at Cape Paterson. It went on to win the encompassing state seat of Bass from the Liberals for the first time since it was created and local MP Jordan Crugnale holds it on a razor-thin margin of 0.2 per cent. The state government declared the Bass Coast a distinctive area and landscape, a process to provide greater protection from development, and in 2022 proposed tighter boundaries for several towns as part of this program. Cape Paterson's boundary was not tightened, sparking a backlash from the residents' association. At the time, the government defended the decision by saying it was made after two rounds of public engagement, and informed by existing planning scheme policies and technical studies. An independent panel was tasked in 2023 with reviewing the Bass Coast planning policy. A renewed campaign in 2024 reignited debate over the Cape Paterson boundary expansion after the local council publicly opposed it and Crugnale advocated for a review. In December, the Allan government agreed to re-open Cape Paterson's boundary to public feedback until the end of January 2025. Peak bodies for the property sector and landowners wrote to Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny urging her not to wind back the boundary, arguing it was not the correct process for such a change and would cast doubt on the reliability of long-term planning. Kilkenny ultimately decided in favour of the community campaign, releasing a new draft plan for the Bass Coast this week that revokes expansion of the Cape Paterson boundary north of Seaward Drive. 'We can build more homes, while also protecting what makes our regions so special,' a state government spokesperson said. 'The Bass Coast is one of Victoria's most environmentally significant regions. This draft policy will help set a clear long-term plan that provides certainty to council, developers, and local communities about where more homes can be built while protecting the environment.' The consultation process received more than 1000 submissions, and the government said most of those supported tightening the boundary to protect the dune landscape and green space. Kilkenny's decision was made public at the same time as a conflicting report from the 2023 independent panel. That report, which had previously not been released, assessed one large area proposed to be subdivided north of Seaward Drive and found the boundary could remain. This was also the view of the planning minister at the time of the review. 'The committee supports the position of the proponent [planning minister] that the area defined for residential growth in Cape Paterson be upheld,' the report said. The report found further work to refine the boundary was 'unnecessary', that the boundaries were not a 'green light for urban development at any cost', and rules still required landscape character and environment to be considered in any development seeking approval. Bernard Collins, from development consultants Beveridge Williams, has been advising one group of prospective developers. He said their clients did everything asked of them as part of the process and had prepared the site so it was ready for future development and to become an established part of the town. 'As a planner, it's concerning where perhaps due process is not fully followed in considering the future, structural future growth of townships,' Collins said. 'Orderly planning requires an orderly process. If that's not followed it causes doubt at many levels of the development process.' Narracan MP Wayne Farnham, the opposition's shadow assistant minister for planning, accused Kilkenny of obstructing and interfering with a 'strategic evidence-based planning process'. 'The Allan Labor government talks a big game when it comes to their plans to build 800,000 homes, but their inconsistent approach makes it hard for homebuyers to get into the market, and hard for builders to deliver projects,' he said. 'This decision flies in the face of every strategic planning process, every recommendation and every cultural and environmental study done on the site.' Victorian executive director of the Property Council Cath Evans said the decision 'contradicts the evidence-based process that had been followed for more than a decade'. 'The sudden change not only undermines trust in long-term planning but also sets a concerning precedent for future developments,' she said. 'This could result in driving away further investment and development urgently needed to meet our state's ambitious housing targets.' A Bass Coast Shire Council spokesperson said an assessment had confirmed there was still enough supply to meet council's obligations for housing without needing the northern land.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Minority and Women Business Enterprise director responds to Orlando program's suspension
A program that helps minority and women business owners has been suspended in the city of Orlando, as well as the Greater Orlando Airport Authority. 'We don't have a choice. We do have to follow the law,' said program director Janerro Coulter. Coulter talked about why the city's Minority Woman and Business Enterprise program was suspended. He said it's what the city had to do to accept a $37 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for airport improvements. Under the Trump administration, the certification language changed to where no program should discriminate either positively or negatively on the basis of race or gender. 'We are going to implement a small business program and then everybody currently in our MWBE program is going to be in the small business program,' Coulter said. Orlando's Minority and Women Business Enterprise offers contracting opportunities to 616 business owners in the city. Many are shocked that it's being suspended. Shawn Ford of the Ford Design Group said, 'It scares me. For one thing, if it's going to be suspended on a local level and other municipalities and entities follow suit, it could pretty much put me and other businesses like me out of business.' 'I think it's really sad to do that, suspend it like that. It's our only backbone for getting jobs,' said James Goins, owner of ABC Land Clearing and Development. Coulter says those in the Minority and Women Business Enterprise program won't have to do a thing. They will be automatically enrolled into the new business program with other small businesses. 'For the incoming businesses they'll have access to opportunities that they didn't have before. It's a win-win for them.' But Ford is concerned, saying, 'Without minority requirements, we wouldn't get invited to be a part of large local and national projects.' Orange County officials say Mayor Jerry Demings will meet with senior staff about the same issue in the next few weeks. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Chicago Tribune
03-06-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
La Grange hero's legacy lives as story of American Legion post namesake is shared with new generations
On February 1, 1943, a 28-year-old graduate of Lyons Township High School was scheduled to relax on one of his rare days off as an Army Air Corps bomber pilot in the European Theater during World War II. But one of the pilots scheduled to fly that day was sick, and someone had to take his place. So he volunteered. That selfless act cost Major Robert E. Coulter Jr. his life. He's memorialized in the name of La Grange's Robert E. Coulter Jr. American Legion Post 1941, but Bill Kiddon, post commander, wants to make sure the story of his heroism isn't lost to the passage of time. 'Probably the first generation or two of legionnaires know of his story,' Kiddon said during a May 22 presentation to the La Grange Area Historical Society. 'But today's generation of legionnaires don't know this story.' Kiddon spoke for 45 minutes to about 50 people at the Historical Society's Vial House Museum, 444 S. La Grange Road. The presentation included footage of air combat between American B-17s and Luftwaffe fighters filmed by an embedded Air Corps journalist. The recording included the scene of a badly damaged bomber plummeting to the ground as two parachuted flyers escape. Coulter attended Ogden Avenue School and graduated from Lyons Township High School two years ahead of his sister. He went on to earn an engineering degree from Purdue University. Kiddon related how Coulter, in October 1942, was among the first pilots to fly unescorted bombing missions, because the fighter planes at the time didn't have the fuel capacity to accompany long range bombing missions. He logged 25 missions, a marker used by the Army when pilots could be relieved of active duty. But Coulter refused to rotate out of combat. He flew 35 missions in all, bombing Nazi submarine pens, destroying a Nazi U-boat base, and leading critical bombing missions in North Africa that helped prevent the Nazis from seizing critical oil fields. 'On February 1, 1943, he was not supposed to fly that day,' Kiddon said. 'When he got down to the briefing room, he found out there was another pilot that didn't get out of the infirmary and couldn't fly. He was grounded that day, so Coulter volunteered. He said 'I'll go up.'' After completing a successful bombing run over North Africa. Coulter's plane was hit head on by a Messerschmitt Me 109. While nobody will ever know what caused the Luftwaffe pilot to steer directly into the formation, the collision ripped off one of the bomber's wings, causing it to spiral downward in flames. Three crew members — the bombardier, navigator and gunner — parachuted to safety and wound up in a German prisoner of war camp. It wasn't until August, 1943 that the wreckage of the B-17 was found just off the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea. It wasn't until then that Coulter's family got the telegram dreaded by so many families during the war, that their son was no longer missing in action, but killed in action. Coulter wasn't the only family member to contribute to the war effort. His father, a member of the Federal Reserve, was involved in the war bond drive. His mother wrapped bandages for the Red Cross and then became chairperson of Red Cross fundraising and his sister married another pilot. 'It was a family of service,' Kiddon said. 'They all pitched in — not unusual for the Greatest Generation.' Kiddon noted that Coulter was keenly aware of world affairs in the late 1930s as Nazis rose to power in Germany. 'He told his parents 'we're going to war,' and wound up enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1939, around the same time Hitler invaded Poland,' Kiddon said. 'He was trained to be a pilot in Texas, and ultimately flew the famous B-17 Flying Fortress.' Within three years, Coulter was piloting a B-17 in Europe. As was the custom in those days, Coulter's plane had what came to be called 'nose art' on the front of the plane. His was 'Bat Outta Hell.' Kiddon stressed that the story of Coulter, and all the other pilots in the war, was also a story about the B-17 Flying Fortress and the challenges that came with serving in one. 'This was not a pressurized airplane,' Kiddon said. 'At 25,000 feet, it was 10 below zero; at 35,000 feet, it's 40 below zero. And this plane flew at 35,000-feet, with no bathrooms and no heat.' Kiddon said the Boeing Company built 12,700 B-17s during the war — at its peak, averaging 16 per day — and roughly 80% of the warbirds were built by women. Among those listening to the presentation were Tim and Kathy Calvert, who found out they live in the former Coulter family home on North Waiola Avenue. 'We were traveling and came home and somebody had left an article on our front porch,' Kathy said. 'If you go up our stairs, up to the attic — we have a walk-up attic — the initials R.E.C. are carved into the side,' Tim said 'It's kind of an honor to live there.' Robert Coulter's niece, Bonnie Williams, born six weeks after he died, was on hand to share family memories. 'It affects the whole family, the whole community, everybody who knew him, when somebody dies like this,' she said. Her uncle's legacy always resonated in their family. 'When they spoke of him, they spoke of all the wonderful memories,' she said. 'There was never any sadness or remorse or regret. They were very proud of him. I can't imagine losing a son, but it was a different time. He was a good person.' But even for Coulter's family, the efforts of Kiddon and the American Legion to keep his legacy alive are essential. 'To put it all together brought the whole thing to life, things that we didn't know,' Williams said. 'I learned more last year when he did the first presentation than I ever knew about it.'
Business Wire
03-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Former Penske Logistics VP LeAnne Coulter Joins FourKites' Strategic Advisory Council
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FourKites®, the global leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, today announced that LeAnne Coulter, former Vice President of Freight Management at Penske Logistics, has joined its Strategic Advisory Council. Coulter brings extensive experience in freight management and logistics services to FourKites' advisory council, where she will provide strategic guidance on product innovation and market expansion. LeAnne Coulter brings extensive experience in freight management and logistics services to FourKites' advisory council, where she will provide strategic guidance on product innovation and market expansion. At Penske Logistics, Coulter was responsible for the strategic vision, growth and product development for all 4PL, freight management and brokerage services, as well as third-party carrier sourcing, acquisition and management. Her leadership helped establish Penske as a leader in comprehensive logistics solutions. "The transportation industry is primed for a fundamental shift from manual processes to AI-orchestrated operations," said Coulter. "FourKites has created a platform that not only provides data but acts on it autonomously, making complex decisions that traditionally required human intervention. This transition to self-executing systems represents the future of freight management and carrier operations." FourKites' Strategic Advisory Council brings together accomplished supply chain executives with decades of hands-on experience. The Council represents FourKites' commitment to understanding the practical realities supply chain leaders face, ensuring the company's solutions address genuine market needs. "AI-powered Digital Workers represent the next frontier of automation in freight management, fundamentally transforming how logistics operations are orchestrated. LeAnne's deep understanding of freight management operations adds invaluable perspective to our Council," said Mathew Elenjickal, Founder and CEO of FourKites. "Her experience developing sophisticated 4PL solutions at Penske aligns perfectly with our vision of creating intelligent systems that not only monitor but actively orchestrate complex logistics operations across multiple partners and modes. LeAnne's strategic insight will be instrumental as we continue to advance our Digital Workforce capabilities to address the industry's most persistent challenges." Coulter's appointment follows FourKites' evolution beyond real-time visibility to offer the industry's only Intelligent Control Tower™. This platform combines supply chain network data with digital twins and a Digital Workforce of AI agents that autonomously act on visibility data, preventing disruptions before they occur and orchestrating complex supply chain operations. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Coulter served on the Steering Committee for Penske Women in Logistics, an organization committed to advancing the careers of female associates through mentoring, networking and professional development. She is also a member of the advisory board for Wayne State University's Global Supply Chain Program, a member of the inaugural Deliver committee of the Institute for Supply Management, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and the Association for Supply Chain Management. FourKites' customer co-innovation approach has defined the company since its founding. Through initiatives like the FourKites IdeaExchange, customer challenges directly shape the company's product roadmap, with more than 60% of features originating from customer suggestions. This collaborative approach has produced breakthrough solutions, enabling FourKites to transform how enterprises manage their supply chains. About FourKites FourKites®, the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation for global enterprises and pioneer of real-time visibility, turns supply chain data into automated action. FourKites' Intelligent Control Tower™ breaks down enterprise silos by creating a real-time digital twin of orders, shipments, inventory and assets. This comprehensive view, combined with AI-powered digital workers, enables companies to prevent disruptions, automate routine tasks, and optimize performance across their supply chain. FourKites processes over 3.2 million supply chain events daily — from purchase orders to final delivery — helping 1,600+ global brands prevent disruptions, make faster decisions and move from reactive tracking to proactive supply chain orchestration.
Scotsman
30-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Scotsman
Inside the charming and immaculate East Lothian home that's on sale for offers over £1m
As far as romance goes, it's hard to top an Arts and Crafts property. It's something to do with the red clay tiled roofs, the asymmetry, and the sense of light and space inside. Kittlestane in Longniddry is a good case in point. This beautiful five bedroom and three bathroom house has just come on the market through Coulter's estate agent at offers over £1m. We asked the current resident, Stephanie Wason, who owns the property with her husband Sam Wason, to tell us more about the beautiful family home that they share with their three children. Tell us about the building It was built in the Thirties during the Arts and Crafts era. It's got loads of beautiful windows that flood the house with light, and we especially love the original octagonal windows that are in the family room, as well as the downstairs WC and the master bedroom – all echoing the shape of the turret and the main bedroom. These features give the house so much charm and character. The décor is very clean and neutral – is that your preferred style? I love clean, neutral, modern interiors that complement the original features and essence of this house. It actually took a couple of goes to get it right – a great month for the painters! –because I originally tried to replicate the style we had in our Morningside townhouse, but it didn't suit this coastal, slightly more dramatic house. It's a balance to complement the original building with my style and practical modern family life. Now, it feels just right. Tell us about the lovely pastel bathroom – how did you come up with the idea? I fell in love with the Cole & Son Nuvolette wallpaper with clouds on it, so I took it into a bathroom showroom, where I spotted the perfect pink basin. It came together from there. The room has underfloor heating too, so it's as cosy as it is pretty, and the hexagonal tiling is a nod to the quirky windows. Which is your favourite room? Our main living room. It strikes the balance I love – clean and modern but with traditional tones. The glass doors opening out onto the garden are amazing most of the year, and when it's not quite warm enough, we light the huge fire. I painted the fireplace and beams in a very pale Kensington Rose (by Mylands) – it's nearly white with a subtle pink undertone. It's such a fresh combination with the contrast of our navy Long Island sofa (from honestly the comfiest sofa we've ever had. It's my favourite room because it's where we spend the most time as a family and we have so many lovely memories of being in there.. What have been your happiest times in the house? There've been loads – BBQs and garden parties with friends and family, of course – but some of the best times have just been us five enjoying the house together. The kids play for hours in the garden – there's always something to discover – and the house is great for everyone doing their own thing but then coming back together. We love weekends with no plans, just enjoying the space and the garden and gin and tonics in the sun once the kids have gone to bed. Tell us more about the garden – are there any plants or trees that really thrive? We inherited an absolutely beautiful garden. The previous owner was a brilliant gardener and put so much thought into it. Throughout the year, something's always in bloom – from rhododendrons and roses to hostas, and we've got some amazing trees, including a quaking aspen, Japanese acer, cedar tree and fruit trees: plum, pear and apple. I love cutting flowers from the garden to make posies – my youngest called them 'Kittlestane buffets' when he was wee and couldn't say bouquets, so that name has stuck, We've added a greenhouse and raised beds where we grow fruit and veg. The kids are really into the project and there's something so rewarding about eating food you've grown yourself. What's it like living in Longniddry? Any favourite restaurants, shops or things to do? It's brilliant – I honestly wish we weren't leaving. The community is amazing. We were welcomed straight away and it's felt like home ever since. We're at the beach constantly; the kids love it, and we've had some brilliant BBQs there with friends while they run wild. I love a bit of cold water swimming (well, dunking!). We live on a golf course, which my husband is very happy about. The girls love Foxlake for wakeboarding and surfing, and my son's always off playing rugby, football or tennis – the courts are just a minute's walk from the house. The new development in Longniddry village is bringing even more amenities, like a Margiotta with Waitrose stock, a gym, yoga and massage studio, and a new café. Our go-to restaurant is The Leddie in Aberlady, which we can walk or cycle to, and we've got high hopes for the new owners of the Longniddry Inn. I really think Longniddry is the best place to live in East Lothian – it's just 18 minutes by train into Edinburgh, but you get peace, community, and the beach – all without the crowds you get in the more touristy spots. It's still a private, calm, and genuinely special place to live. For more information on the property, see 1 . The living space with dual aspect views Contributed Photo: Contributed Photo Sales
