Land Use

Is Vancouver's housing bubble and density destroying what made the city so livable?

October 24, 2005 - The Seattle Times

Despite being considered the poster child for sprawl, Los Angeles is not a particularly good example of sprawl, and by several measures is the densest place in the U.S.

October 24, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

Churches and their parking lots dominate some East Side neighborhoods. It's a mixed blessing at best.

October 23, 2005 - The Cleveland Free Times

Growth debate in Idaho centers on property taxes, impact fees and possibly new legislation.

October 22, 2005 - The Idaho Statesman

William Fulton recalls the late Ed Bacon, Philadelphia's chief planner for more than two decades, as more than the cranky and quirky man he became in his later years.

October 20, 2005 - California Planning & Development Report

Nimbyism is gaining quite a following in Toronto -- leaving some detractors to worry that the movement is strangling all growth in the area.

October 20, 2005 - The Toronto Star

Creating more direct connections shortens travel time, which effectively brings people closer to their destinations.

October 19, 2005 - Planning Commissioners Journal

In a unique situation in Washington D.C., selected private firms are authorized to approve development permit applications on behalf of the city's overworked and dysfunctional Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs apartment.

October 19, 2005 - Washington City Paper

A new piece of legislation going before voters in New York would limit the amount of development in many low-density neighborhoods, and encourage planning over upzoning to encourage development.

October 19, 2005 - The Gotham Gazette

California's fastest growing region resorts to using the political strategy of 'recall' to slow growth.

October 18, 2005 - Los Angeles Times

As shelters close, trailer towns open for storm evacuees. FEMA opens the first of many such villages for those displaced by Katrina.

October 18, 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor

At more than 2,300 acres, Orange County's new park on the site of a former marine base, will be the second-largest in California, about the size of Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

October 18, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

Oregon's land use laws were thrown into new controversy as a Marion County Circuit Court Judge ruled last November's property rights initiative invalid.

October 18, 2005 - The Oregonian

Connecticut's cities' zoning codes -- many based on MuniCode's bolierplate code -- make sprawl ineveitable.

October 17, 2005 - The Hartford Courant

One of the most livable places in the U.S. tries to revitalize its downtown.

October 15, 2005 - The New York Times

One of the new ways the industry is growing is through what critics call 'reservation shopping' -- the push to build Indian casinos on nonreservation land.

October 14, 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor

Suburbanites are about 35 per cent more likely to be obese than their urban counterparts. Can obesity be solved through economic incentives and disincentives for development?

October 14, 2005 - The Globe and Mail

After 10 years, it appears Ventura County's Save Open-space & Agricultural Resources (SOAR) effort -- a unique urban growth boundaries initiative -- is working. Why haven't they been duplicated elsewhere?

October 13, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

Political parties see the Gulf as a lab for their policy ideas. There's room for many of them, but not all, writes the CSM on their editorial pages.

October 13, 2005 - The Christian Science Monitor

A team of 100 architects and planners from 50 design firms, and led by Andres Duany, are converting on South Mississippi for the Mississippi Renewal Forum.

October 13, 2005 - Sun Herald