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Announcement: new paper on smart growth and government regulation
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 10:58amI recently coauthored a paper on government regulations designed to promote smart growth and green building (published by the Mercatus Institute). The paper examines the prevalence of minimum density requirements, maximum parking requirements, and green building-related regulations. ... read more »
The Irony of Minimum Parking Requirements
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 07/21/2013 - 9:37amAs many people (including me) have written, minimum parking requirements encourage sprawl by requiring "islands of building surounded by seas of parking." Generally, municipalities trying to end or modify these rules have started with downtowns and worked their way outward.
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CNU CITY SPOTLIGHT: The Parking War in Cincinnati
Submitted by kapoppel on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 2:06pmThis post is part of a new series on the CNU Salons, CITY SPOTLIGHT. City Spotlight shines a light on the latest news, developments and initiatives occurring in cities and towns where CNU members live and work.
The below post is a City Spotlight on downtown parking issues in Cincinnati. This is also... read more »
Tumlin on parking
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 2:53pmThis afternoon, Jeffrey Tumlin spoke on how to reform parking to reduce the negative results of minimum parking requirements. (If you're not familiar with them, google "Donald Shoup"). Some of his solutions were stuff I've heard before: abolish parking requirements, create residential permit syste... read more »
Minimum parking requirements upheld- or, when will they ever learn?
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:09amLast month, a New York appellate court upheld minimum parking requirements in Syracuase, on the ground that such rules are reasonably related to the city's goal of "enhanc[ing] traffic safety by removing cars from the [City’s] streets”(1)
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Downtown Montgomery's First Reverse Angle Parking
Submitted by cemerson on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 4:00pmDowntown Montgomery continued its trend of implementing innovative New Urban projects with new reverse angle parking on a key thoroughfare in the Central Business District.
So far, the reviews have been positive as drivers/parkers begin to see the safety and convenience advantages that revers... read more »
Cool Planning: LEED-ND in Plain English
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 5:16pmIn giving some advice on LEED-ND on Pro-Urb, John Anderson once wrote "LEED-ND is a reasonable (but in my view excruciating) way to go." He suggested other paths to get to a similar place with "less brain damage."
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#CNU18 Spirit of change rolls In on two wheels as CNU 18 opens
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 7:14amThe spirit of transformational change rolled in on two wheels Wednesday night at the opening plenary of CNU 18 at Atlanta's famed Tabernacle Theater.
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Stuck in the Past, Lenders Neglect TOD
Submitted by abanks on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 12:38pmDespite the commonly presumed inconveniences, high risks, and financially detrimental results of pedestrian and transit friendly development, public transportation’s association with safety, risk-fr
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The Evolution of Tysons Corner
Submitted by anthony.riederer on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 9:49amCommunity leaders of Tysons Corner, Virginia, once a poster-perfect example of an 'edge city', have increasingly been seeking strategies to create a more walkable pedestrian-friendly form of urbanism
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