Eve Kessler wrote:

In 2015, the city council of Fayetteville, Arkansas, adopted a radical but simple idea: do away with minimum parking mandates and let businesses decide for themselves how much parking they need.

The average person walking down the main drag of Dickson Street might be surprised to learn that this growing city o...
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Joel Kotkin wrote:

Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World War—Americans have been heading further from the urban core, seeking affordable and safe communities with good schools, parks, and a generall...
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Charles Marohn wrote:

And that’s really the core problem commuting culture creates, a challenge that money spent fighting congestion only makes worse: the diffuse development pattern generates more public costs than it builds private wealth. These are low productivity environments, a financial imbalance that no transportation investment will overcome.

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We don’t have the mone...
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Michael Andersen wrote:

Building owners paid Metro Transit $14 per month for each unit and offered one pass per household as part of their leases. (A regular Metropass for unlimited rides costs $83 per month.)

In case you were wondering, that comes to an 83 percent bulk-rate discount being offered by the transit agency.

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“We also provide a community car fo...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:

There’s no large city in America that’s doing a better job of pivoting to a Strong Towns approach than Memphis, Tennessee. And there are many working from easier starting points. For decades, Memphis aggressively annexed outlying land, juicing cheap suburban growth while older neighborhoods suffered poverty and blight. In recent years, cit...
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Todd Litman wrote:

True sustainability involves more than just environmental protection: it balances environmental, social and economic goals. There is plenty of guidance concerning how to increase environmental sustainability by reducing resource consumption and habitat degradation and a growing body of guidance for achieving social sustainability by creating healthier and more equitable communities, but there is les...
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Rachel Dalrymple wrote:

The Public Infrastructure Act allows for low-cost funding for parks, roads, infrastructure, and water via investment groups, companies, etc. Traditionally, cities and neighborhoods funded by PIDs are developed in bits and pieces as the money for the infrastructure becomes available. 

So far, Utah is becoming a hotbed for such spots thanks t...
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Kea Wilson wrote:

Private developers have pursued similar concepts in the past, like the much blogged-about Culdesac development in Tempe, which will bundle a package of non-automotive mobility options into the price of rent when it opens later this year. But the Utah site may be the first publicly-sponsored project to pursue a car-light model...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has issued a new policy that "recognizes that streets are not only used for transportation but are also valuable community spaces," acknowledging the need to prioritize infrastructure for pedestrians, bike riders, and transit users in every Caltrans project. According to Melanie Curry, the policy solidifies the...
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Charles Montgomery wrote:

A few years ago, a few dozen of us came together to launch an experiment that we hoped would tackle middle-class housing affordability, social disconnection, and climate change all in one go. We set out to create our own village in the heart of the city, a place designed to nurture friendshi...
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