The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

More often the province of rental housing, affordability policies are limited in the for-sale market. A partnership in Denver aims to change that with a mixed-use project including at least 86 condos destined to be "permanently affordable."

January 9 - Next City

Live music, skating rinks, and artificial beaches are now part of developments that want to go beyond just simple shopping and dining.

January 9 - The Washington Post

More people are buying cars, even while more people are choosing to go without cars.

January 9 - CityLab

The city of Atlanta approved its largest development project since the 1960s back in November, but still needed the school district to sign off on a funding plan to help for the $1.9 billion in public subsidies that will support the project.

January 9 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Supreme Court upheld the disparate impact doctrine at the heart of fair housing rules, along with many other anti-discrimination policies, in 2015. Still, the Trump administration is looking for ways to undermine disparate impact.

January 9 - The Washington Post

California and Massachusetts use the same name for climate change legislation, Global Warming Solutions Act, and set the same target date for reductions, 2020. Both achieved their targets 2016, but the Bay State had a tougher goal to meet.

January 8 - WBUR

Philadelphia looked at how interventions can change recycling and littering behavior.

January 8 - Apolitical

As many as 215,000 owners of mostly electric vehicles purchased before 2017 lost their privilege to access carpool lanes on New Year's Day. The main purpose of HOV lanes is to reduce congestion.

January 8 - Capital Public Radio

Due to various market and industry factors, developers are not planning to start many new construction projects in 2019.

January 8 - San Francisco Chronicle

The California Natural Resources Agency posted the final version of amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act, enabled by 2013's SB 743, at the end of 2018.

January 8 - Streetsblog California

BLOG POST

Despite the decline in gas prices, cars are still a luxury for many low-income Americans, and low-income zip codes still tend to have low car ownership rates.

January 8 - Michael Lewyn

The Sustainable Low Carbon Transportation ( SLoCaT) Partnership recently released the "Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report," a resource to help raise ambition on climate sustainable transportation policy actions.

January 8 - Transport and Climate Change Global Status Report

A Baltimore Sun columnist writes a scathing critique of Maryland's highway building program.

January 8 - The Baltimore Sun

If coal use phases out in Texas, renewable energy could very likely pick up the slack.

January 8 - Houston Chronicle

The U.S. Census Bureau had been without an approved director since May 2017. The Senate unanimously approved Steven Dillingham to the position with about a year to spare before the 2020 Census begins.

January 8 - NPR

The consequences of allowing the public free access to national parks without any supervision or maintenance operations are to great a risk, according to a former director of the National Park Service.

January 7 - The Guardian

There's been a lot of talk about the Green New Deal, but not that much is known about it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who is promoting it, explained the program on 60 Minutes on January 6.

January 7 - Politico

A proposed waterfront plan has secured the necessary funding to move forward in Seattle, pending City Council approval.

January 7 - Crosscut

East Coast transit systems used to be the envy of other cities, but now the West Coast is taking big steps to expand their networks.

January 7 - The New York Times

FEATURE

While the debate continues unabated on the influence of the physical and land use characteristics of a city on crime, a critical aspect is left out: resident transience. Jacobs took notice and feared its negative influence. Was she right?

January 7 - Fanis Grammenos