Fayetteville, Arkansas recently lifted their minimum parking requirements which were, as in most cities, absurdly high.
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We've all looked at a property or lot in our community and thought to ourselves: "If only somebody would do something with that." Well perhaps that somebody is you!
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Our national transportation obsession has been about maximizing the amount that you can drive. We now need to focus on minimizing the amount you are forced to drive.
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Earlier this year, Jesse Bailey started a discussion on our Discussion Board about sidewalk maintenance. The discussion has received several interesting responses.
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The code book called for a crosswalk.....so I put in a crosswalk.
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Here's a great example of testing out a solution for busy streets at relatively low cost, with phenomenal results.
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Over the last several years, we have seen the Strong Towns message of financial resilience and strong communities reach dozens of towns and cities across the country. Last week, the message was shared at a conference in Dubuque, Iowa by a Strong Towns member, John Griffin.
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The vast majority of everything ever built in North America has been constructed since World War II. And almost all of it is auto-oriented suburban development.
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On the surface, it might seem more difficult to deal with co-existence in a big city where you are constantly in close quarters with people you do not know and may not want to know. But not knowing is so easy. On the contrary, it’s community that’s hard.
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Getting even modest pedestrian improvements can be an uphill battle. We have a design bias and process that is inherently unfriendly to pedestrians and bicycles.
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In spite of transportation agency misgivings about narrow lanes, Forest Hill Boulevard performs better on crash statistics than FDOT guidance for similar roadways, while offering advantages in the form of reduced construction costs, less negative impacts to adjacent properties, and decreased stormwater runoff, among other positive benefits.
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Today, we're featuring a summary of ideas from David Levinson and Kevin Krizek's new book, The End of Traffic & the Future of Transportation.
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From the small town of Republic, MO comes this story about a dangerous route to school that has resulted in dozens of accidents.
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Let a lot of people roll the dice a lot of times, and let some of them fail. Nature does it that way.
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Could the belief that there isn’t enough parking be hurting business? Maybe. Is there a problem with “after 5” parking near McCaffrey’s? Not tonight, and I’ll wager not tomorrow night either.
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Land-use and urban planning are like the hardware of a city while the kind of work many community builders and social entrepreneurs are doing to nurture local businesses and start-ups is like the software.
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Among the many propaganda campaigns executed during World War II was this one, aimed at encouraging carpooling.
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The question local governments should be asking is this: What’s the next smallest thing we can do right now to make this neighborhood a little bit better?
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