The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A ballot initiative is moving forward in Colorado that would severely limit housing production in the already housing-constrained Front Range region. We're not talking about urban growth boundaries here.

February 9 - The Denver Post

More Southern Californians are purchasing motor vehicles, particularly those who were previously transit-dependent, which largely explains the region's declining transit ridership, according to a newly released study.

February 9 - Los Angeles Times

The expansion of the built environment proceeds with little regard for the loss of biodiversity, and the planning field isn't doing enough to help.

February 9 - ASLA The Dirt

The borough of Emerson, New Jersey is testing the limits of eminent domain.

February 9 - NorthJersey

Call it buyer beware: the real estate website Trulia is offering a new tool to helps house hunters evaluate whether communities discriminate against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents.

February 9 - Trulia

Light rail ridership increased in 2017 in Minneapolis and St. Paul, despite a decline in bus ridership.

February 8 - Star Tribune

In Oakland, California and Torreon, New Mexico, Julian Brave NoiseCat reports that "[f]or Indigenous people, the crisis of the home is intergenerational."

February 8 - High Country News

Will 2018 signal the end of the latest real estate cycle as we know it?

February 8 - Modern Cities

The goods movement industry wants a seat at the table.

February 8 - InTransition Magazine

Eleven ways to make a city more walkable.

February 8 - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

Multiple proposals to demolish downtown buildings and put up surface parking lots are meeting resistance.

February 8 - Detroit Free Press

CodeNEXT is one of the most ambitious, and controversial, zoning reform projects ongoing in the country, with lessons to offer planners all over the country in code writing, public outreach, and planning outcomes.

February 8 - CodeNEXT

To close a $14 million budget shortfall, TriMet may scale back aspects of the planned bus line.

February 8 - Oregon Live

The New York Power Authority is considering a new kind of economic development scheme.

February 8 - Watertown Daily News

A Texas mall that opened in 1968 and largely closed ten months ago has been picked by Texas Central Partners as the Houston terminal of the Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail. The site is far from downtown and distant from public transit.

February 8 - Houston Chronicle

Urbanist and advocate Kristen Jeffers decries the thinly veiled racism underlying complaints about D.C.'s dockless bikeshare program.

February 7 - Greater Greater Washington

Small cities are an asset to the country, so politicians and thinkers on the left and right would do well to stop calling for their inhabitants to flee, Henry Garbar argues in Slate.

February 7 - Slate

Community leaders say a design district in Westlake could pave the way for the erasure of L.A's Historic Filipinotown.

February 7 - Curbed LA

FEATURE

While evidence mounts that Uber and Lyft are stealing rides from public transit, there's still a chance for ride-hailing apps to do more to help than hurt congestion. The key: using ride-hailing apps to carpool.

February 7 - Dan Sperling

Small cities around the country with high unemployment are desperate for jobs, but when an Amazon distribution center moves into town, it's not all good news.

February 7 - The Atlantic