The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>One holdout landowner is preventing the redevelopment of Pittsburg, California's waterfront, but the city is pushing for eminent domain.</p>

February 11 - The Contra Costa Times

<p>Politicians in Georgia are pushing a resolution that would redraw the state's border with Tennessee so that a plentiful river would lie within the boundaries of water-poor Georgia.</p>

February 11 - The Tennessean

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February 11 - Josh Stephens

<p>The California Coastal Commission has voted against expanding a controversial toll road through a state beach.</p>

February 10 - The New York Times

<p>Foreclosed homes continue to plague cities across the country as large swaths of land and entire neighborhoods are abandoned.</p>

February 10 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>This editorial from <em>The Kansas City Star</em> argues that Mayor Mark Funkhouser's plan to create a regional light rail system may be too ambitious, and efforts should be focused on building a smaller system.</p>

February 10 - The Kansas City Star

<p>Rental car companies are venturing into the field of car-sharing.</p>

February 10 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>With available landspace running low, a 1-million square-meter underground development is being planned in Amsterdam.</p>

February 10 - Building

<p>As Vancouver weighs the importance of density in the city, some say the debate needs a refresh.</p>

February 9 - The Globe & Mail

<p>Eminent domain usage by the Denver area transit authority may be severely limited by a law that specifies land seizures be made only for "public transit purposes". This may prevent takings for such uses as parking lots and TOD.</p>

February 9 - The Denver Post

<p>More suburban commuters around the Twin Cities are ditching their cars and riding the bus.</p>

February 9 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

<p>Community activists and affordable housing advocates in New Orleans face ongoing struggles to promote alternative redevelopment schemes that meet the needs of low-income households.</p>

February 9 - Women's International Perspective

<p>A new transportation corridor prompts the coordination of transportation and land use planning efforts in Boise.</p>

February 9 - The Boise Weekly

<p>A farmer in England secretly built a mock-Tudor castle on his property and kept it out of view for years by hiding it behind a 40-foot stack of hay bales.</p>

February 8 - Daily Mail

<p>The increasing use of food grains in biofuels, rising meat consumption in Asia and perverse government farming subsidies are having a serious effect on global food security.</p>

February 8 - Telegraph

<p>Despite complaints from residents and critics, a 27-story tower to be built on the edge of Boston's high-rise Financial District and its more modest Chinatown neighborhood has passed review form the city's design commission.</p>

February 8 - The Boston Globe

<p>While Montgomery County, Maryland had one of the first affordable housing programs in the country, recently, the community has not seen the required units constructed by developers.</p>

February 8 - The Washington Post

<p>Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is looking to make his city's streets safer for cyclists by raising fines for reckless drivers who endanger bikers.</p>

February 8 - Chicago Sun-Times

<p>A federal court has ruled that Metropolitan Atlanta cannot increase its draw of water from Lake Lanier, a ruling viewed as a major victory for Alabama and Florida which has been quarreling with Georgia over the reservoir's water for years.</p>

February 8 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>Los Angeles has created a joint-powers authority to consider a regional magnetic-levitation train system. The $26 billion system would be funded and operated by a private firm.</p>

February 8 - The Daily Breeze