Colorado
Colorado Agriculture Giving Way To Sprawl
Farms in Boulder County, CO are being gobbled in by steady urban development. In their place are "designer" farms.
Ski Resorts Struggle to Lure Workers
As workers abandon jobs due to long commutes and soaring real estate prices, ski resort towns are facing a serious labor shortage and "requiring developers to build affordable housing for workers as a condition of building expensive homes."
Noisy Jets Buzz Residents
Study attempts to find a way to reduce noise at Denver's Centennial airport where jet traffic has tripled in recent years.
Denver Revamps Water System
Treated wastewater to be used on public lands, landscaping and golf courses.
Denver's Housing Market Is Slowing
Denver's red-hot housing market is showing sudden and dramatic signs of slowing.
Denver Building Too Fast
A federal agency has warned Denver might find itself reliving the past if its rapid commercial growth doesn't slow down.
Colorado's Bicycle Expressway?
Bicyclists are calling for a bicycle expressway between Boulder and Denver.
Religious Camp Accused Of Sprawl
Plans for a large Christian camp in Lake County, Colorado are seriously testing the tenet 'Love thy neighbor', and raises questions of sprawl.
Is California Stealing Colorado's Water?
Thirsty Southern Californians are enjoying for free increasingly huge amounts of Colorado's unused water. This may change.
Denver's High-Tech Parking Solution
Denver considers an innovative and high-tech approach to evening downtown parking problems.
Transit Tax Comes Due In Denver
Denver transit agency gives Park Meadows an ultimatum: collect the transit sales tax, or forfeit rail access to the mall.
Thinning Colorado's Forests
The US Forest Service want to double the thinning of Colorad's forests to prevent fire. It's called aggressive thinning.
New City; Virtual City Hall
The new city of Centennial, Colorado has built a city government, but they have no intention to of building a city hall.
Building Houses From Recycled Tires
But Houtchens of Fountain, CO recycles used tires (including those from the Firestone recall) into construction material.
Colorado Springs Is Expanding -- Fast
Developers have sought to add more than a dozen parcels of land, totaling nearly 3,000 acres, to Colorado Springs city limits so far this month.
Boulder County Projects On Sprawl List
Two projects in Boulder County, Colorado made the Sierra Club's national list of "sprawling growth."
Colorado Builders Rush To Beat Growth Curbs
Colorado builders have been rushing to city halls statewide to file housing applications to short-circuit a growth-control initiative.
Got Cash? Name Your Rail Line
Faced with funding problems, Arapahoe County, Colorado, officials suggest selling naming rights. "Corporate glory traded for public convenience?"
Aspen Housing Design Competition
Common green spaces and easy connections to a transit center brought home the top prize a contest to design affordable housing in Aspen.
Cityhood For Centennial
The proposed city of Centennial would be the seventh-largest city in Colorado, and the effort has spawned new incorporation laws.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
City of Albany
UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
City of Piedmont, CA
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
