Understanding the real costs and long-term liabilities of our infrastructure is essential for the long-term prosperity of our places. Unfortunately, this detail is often overlooked in our decision-making process.
Read MoreA bill to legalize certain forms of “missing middle” housing statewide in Minnesota appears dead in the legislature. Yet, here are 4 reasons why it’s still not a total loss.
Read MoreTony Jordan of the Parking Reform Network and Chris Meyer, legislative assistant to Senator Omar Fateh, talk all things parking reform on this week’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.
Read MoreSome complain that getting rid of parking mandates is just an underhanded way of making auto use harder and harder in cities. But harder for whom, exactly?
Read MoreThe parking reform bill Strong Towns has endorsed is necessary to get Minnesota cities unstuck.
Read MoreMinnesota legislators have introduced a bill that would eliminate minimum parking mandates statewide—and Strong Towns was there to cheer them on.
Read MoreResidents of Chisholm, MN, have shown that you don’t need to invest a lot of time and money to bring value to your community, and to provide a space for entrepreneurship.
Read MoreIn Minneapolis and St. Paul, parking reform has helped increase the overall supply of homes, reduce the cost of construction, and shift the cities toward a less car-centric design.
Read MoreFor the second time, a group of Minneapolis residents—enabled by existing law—have halted implementation of the city’s Minneapolis 2040 plan over its supposed environmental impact. Here’s why they’re doing more harm than good.
Read MoreCities and towns big and small across the nation are ending parking minimums.
Read MoreThe Minnesota Department of Transportation says they’re “rethinking” this freeway, but then came up with 10 proposals for roads for automobiles, just of different configurations. How rethought is that, really?
Read MoreA local fitness center in Chisholm, MN, shows that you don’t need to look far outside of your city or town to find the best people to develop it.
Read MoreWhy is it so hard to imagine removing a 60-year-old freeway from the heart of my city—even as someone who likes the idea?
Read MoreDesign doesn’t necessarily make a community, but, as this neighborhood in St. Paul, MN, shows, it does matter.
Read MoreThis series of studies of 19th-century development in St. Paul, MN, can help us understand some of the earliest traces of what would later become the suburban development pattern.
Read MoreWhy hasn't there been more small-scale and incremental housing added in the Twin Cities after the zoning reform that was passed several years ago?
Read MoreIt’s not difficult to have good urban design, the kind that respects neighbors and the neighborhoods they live in. It’s actually a lot less work than the processes we use to administer the suburban zoning codes we have today.
Read MoreZoning restrictions in this Minneapolis suburb have rendered much of its original development in violation of its current rules. The city’s leadership is looking to change that.
Read MoreOur Neighborhood Storyteller visits her hometown to both mourn and celebrate the changes that have happened there over the years.
Read MoreOur most famous case study revealed the high cost of auto-oriented development. But what if a little creative rearrangement could make things a whole lot better?
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