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Parking Minimums Might Be on the Way Out in Dallas
Parking Minimums Might Be on the Way Out in Dallas

Local officials in Dallas are considering eliminating minimum parking requirements in the city—and predictably, the measure has both critics and proponents.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 14, 2024upzoned, podcast, parking minimums, end parking mandates and subsidies, texas
When an Intersection Becomes a Cemetery
When an Intersection Becomes a Cemetery

In the last three years alone, this San Antonio intersection has seen more than 20 crashes—several of them fatal. How long do residents have to wait before something is done about it?

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News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoFebruary 14, 2024Crash Analysis Studio, texas, safe and productive streets, car crash, intersections
6 Rules for Actually Changing People’s Minds
6 Rules for Actually Changing People’s Minds

If you’re in the business of trying to change the world around you, sooner or later you’ll need to be a persuasive communicator—but being persuasive isn’t just about getting your facts right.

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Herriges, Top Story, TrendingDaniel HerrigesFebruary 14, 2024advocacy
Build Tapestries, Not Just Buildings
Build Tapestries, Not Just Buildings

We should think of city blocks like tapestries.

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Owens, Top StoryTiffany Owens ReedFebruary 13, 2024texas, design
It’s a Stroad Now, but What Used To Be There?
It’s a Stroad Now, but What Used To Be There?

A collection of historic photos helped this advocate show how urban renewal marred his hometown, and left an inhospitable mess in its wake. 

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Community Stories, Top Story, TrendingBen AbramsonFebruary 13, 2024urban renewal, traditional development pattern, canada, downtown, safe and productive streets, Incremental Housing
Meet the Freeway Fighters Who Are Suing the Texas Department of Transportation
Meet the Freeway Fighters Who Are Suing the Texas Department of Transportation

Adam Greenfield and Bobby Levinski are part of the grassroots movement Rethink35, which is filing a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Transportation over their plans to expand I-35 in Austin.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 12, 2024podcast, end highway expansion, texas, freeway widening, urban freeways
Become a Local Hero. Join the 2nd Annual National Gathering.
Become a Local Hero. Join the 2nd Annual National Gathering.

The 2024 National Gathering takes place May 14–15 in Cincinnati, OH, and tickets just went live!

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Top StoryRachel QuednauFebruary 12, 2024National Gathering
Sometimes You Need To Destroy a Perfectly Good Mansion
Sometimes You Need To Destroy a Perfectly Good Mansion

Why preserving the past shouldn’t mean foreclosing our future.

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Top StoryWill GardnerFebruary 9, 2024historic preservation, neighborhoods, massachusetts, Incremental Housing
How To Ensure the Projects Your City Says “Yes” to Set It Up for Long-Term Prosperity
How To Ensure the Projects Your City Says “Yes” to Set It Up for Long-Term Prosperity

“Is this a good project, or will it set up my city for financial insolvency??” Here’s how to find out.

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Edward Erfurt, Top StoryEdward Erfurt and Lindsey BeckworthFebruary 9, 2024transparent local accounting, financial solvency, cities, municipal finance, community action lab
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is…Fighting Freeway Widening in Austin
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is…Fighting Freeway Widening in Austin

Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield are doing some of the most challenging work an advocate can take on in their city: fighting a massive highway expansion project.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 8, 2024The Bottom-Up Revolution, end highway expansion, freeway widening, texas, highways
New Florida Development Aims To Give Rent-Burdened Workers a Leg Up
New Florida Development Aims To Give Rent-Burdened Workers a Leg Up

Immokalee, FL, sits 30 miles from glitzy Naples, yet it’s one of the most rent-burdened places in the state. Local nonprofits are teaming up to change that by planning a new community for Immokalee’s agricultural workers.

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Community Stories, Top StoryBen AbramsonFebruary 8, 2024Incremental Housing, rural, renters, affordable housing, housing crisis, developers
You’re My (Housing) Type: A Valentine’s “Infill Housing Love Letter” Campaign
You’re My (Housing) Type: A Valentine’s “Infill Housing Love Letter” Campaign

The rhetoric around housing can get pretty heated, so here’s how one advocacy group in Winnipeg, MB, decided to show a little love and positivity to the residents of some new infill housing.

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Emma Durand-Wood, Community Stories, Top StoryEmma Durand-WoodFebruary 8, 2024Incremental Housing, infill, Infill Development, missing middle, canada
Coming Back Down to Earth After a “Next-Level” Downtown Revitalization
Coming Back Down to Earth After a “Next-Level” Downtown Revitalization

Here’s a grounded look at why an elevated walkway didn’t do as much to save downtown Morristown, TN, as residents once hoped.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 7, 2024upzoned, podcast, downtown, revitalization, economic growth
The Best Argument for Parking Mandates (Is Still Wrong)
The Best Argument for Parking Mandates (Is Still Wrong)

“Abolish parking mandates? But won’t street parking be overrun, if developers aren’t required to provide adequate parking?” If you’ve been asking this question, then this article is for you.

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesFebruary 7, 2024end parking mandates and subsidies, Land Use, policy change
4 Ways a City Can Hide Its Insolvency Using Accounting
4 Ways a City Can Hide Its Insolvency Using Accounting

If we’re not paying attention, it can be hard to tell whether a city is using debt to simply to smooth out cashflows, or if it’s just covering up insolvency. Here are four telltale signs of the latter scenario.

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Top StoryMichel Durand-WoodFebruary 6, 2024transparent local accounting, municipal finance, financial solvency
Fact and Fiction in Oregon’s Department of Transportation
Fact and Fiction in Oregon’s Department of Transportation

The Interstate 5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project in Oregon is the poster child for how departments of transportation deceptively package harmful highway expansion projects.

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Top StoryAsia MieleszkoFebruary 6, 2024end highway expansion, oregon, department of transportation, freeway widening, highways
Shima Hamidi: Narrow Lanes Save Lives
Shima Hamidi: Narrow Lanes Save Lives

We talk with Dr. Shima Hamidi of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose research cuts into the core assumptions of the civil engineering profession in regard to traffic design.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsFebruary 5, 2024podcast, safe and productive streets, narrow streets, safety, car crash
Pre-Permitted Plans Help Kalamazoo Bring Housing Back
Pre-Permitted Plans Help Kalamazoo Bring Housing Back

Like so many other places, the city of Kalamazoo, MI, has been facing a cascade of housing challenges. Here’s how they’re tackling them using pre-approved housing plans.

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Community Stories, Top StoryBen AbramsonFebruary 5, 2024Incremental Housing, housing activism, housing policy, housing crisis, michigan, zoning, success stories
Parking Mandates Are Bad Policy
Parking Mandates Are Bad Policy

The parking reform bill Strong Towns has endorsed is necessary to get Minnesota cities unstuck.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnFebruary 5, 2024end parking mandates and subsidies, policy change, parking minimums, minnesota
How Transportation Funding Is Used to Manipulate Cities
How Transportation Funding Is Used to Manipulate Cities

You’ve just been sworn into your first elected office, and you’re committed to improving your city’s transportation network… But not so fast: not all money is free.

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Top StoryBen AbramsonFebruary 2, 2024end highway expansion, safe and productive streets, transportation spending, transportation, transparent local accounting
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