Diana Ionescu wrote:
The Denver City Council has approved a change to the city's zoning code that reduces minimum parking requirements for affordable housing developments, reports Daliah Singer. "Among other things, the just-updated code lowers the 'affordable housing alternative minimum parking ratio' for affordable housing projects in any district to 0.1, or one spot for...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
Rural homes are surrounded by nature, but are often larger than urban houses or apartments and people who live in them require cars to get around. City homes are usually smaller and offer short distances, but also a world of shiny consumption goods, takeaway food and entertainment options – at least i...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
Pittsburgh just became the first U.S. community where every resident can feasibly and affordably trade their private cars for an app.
Today, the Steel City will launch its long-awaited Move PGH pilot, which is being touted as the first comprehensive “mobility as a service” (MaaS) app in United States history. Under th...
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Charles Marohn wrote:
Choosing a design speed is, by its nature, an application of core values. When we pick a speed, we are selecting among different, competing priorities. Is it more important that peak traffic move quickly or is it more important to maximize the development potential of the street? Do we compromise the safet...
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Noah Smith wrote:
Housing is probably the most important aspect of any city, and the U.S. simply hasn't been building enough of it. Politically powerful homeowners and landlords dominate local governments, blocking residential construction through a morass of zoning restrictions, parking requirements and other laws. New developments are strangled by endless reviews and challenges, ofte...
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ichael Podgers wrote:
We envision a boulevard that runs along the western edge of the parkland instead of through the green space. We want a multimodal road (again, not a highway) with mixed-traffic lanes reduced from the current eight to two in each direction. We want to see gold standard Bus Rapid Transit built tha...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
Examine building permits issued in Portland, Oregon, over the last three years and you'll notice something strange: the city seems to be acquiring a bunch of new 19-unit apartment buildings. Not 15. Not 25. Not 20. Specifically 19.
Why 19? The answer is no mystery to planners and housing advocates in th...
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Laura Bliss wrote:
In May, the agency published a request for information seeking public input on a list of questions such as, “If the department were to create transportation equity indices, what key indicators should they include?” and, “What are approaches that DOT can take to ensure that individuals from underserved populations are represented in ou...
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Strong Towns wrote:
The traditional development pattern of towns and cities evolved with humans, the same way ant hills evolved with the ant and bee hives evolved with the bee. Yet around the time of the Great Depression, North Americans began jettisoning millennia of accumulated wisdom about city-building in favor of a suburban development patter...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
A coalition of academics from around the world modeled what would happen if all residents of a car-centric city made their transportation choices solely on the basis of how much time they would save by taking the fastest mode available to them — which, for most of them, would be a persona...
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