The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A Massachusetts regional planning agency says many of Boston's neighborhoods have too many unused parking spaces.

March 9 - The Boston Globe

In a piece for CityLab, Richey Pipparinen argues that trigger-happy city officials need to slow down their push to demolish homes.

March 9 - CityLab

Earlier this week, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan sent a draft of the city's new Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance to the city's Common Council.

March 9 - Politico New York

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Michael Smart and Nicholas Klein guest blog about their recent article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

March 8 - JPER

A reading list inspired by International Women's Day delves into subjects like "empathy in design to the challenge of defining diversity."

March 8 - Doggerel

Measure S and an oddly timed election brought planning and development to the center of the public consciousness in Los Angeles for a few months. The voters resoundingly supported one side of the issue.

March 8 - Los Angeles Times

The influx of new workers and residents in Downtown Boise has lead to a parking crunch, raising parking rates and leaving city officials searching for alternative solutions.

March 8 - Idaho Statesman

The U.S. EPA has signaled that it will withdraw an earlier decision to maintain the 54.5 miles per gallon target. Should that happen, a major casualty will be electric vehicles, according to one prominent EV advocate interviewed on NPR.

March 8 - NPR

Headlined by vertical (and horizontal) sprawl in China, India, and elsewhere, the global building boom requires vast quantities of concrete and asphalt. And to get those materials, sand must be taken from the environment.

March 8 - The Guardian

Will sprawling cities stay sprawled? Starting in their downtowns, some Sun Belt behemoths are embracing denser, more walkable forms.

March 8 - CNU

The Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods in Chicago will update their master plan to keep pace with the north side Chicago growing wealth and popularity.

March 8 - Next City

An already troubled proposal to widen the I-94 Freeway in Milwaukee has now encountered a legal setback.

March 8 - Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

The city of Atlanta is building new housing, but very little of it is affordable. A new bond is intended to make a dent in that trend.

March 8 - WABE

The devil is in the details, as they say. That will be especially true as Congress and the Trump Administration decide how to allocate infrastructure spending around the county.

March 7 - Route Fifty

The perpetual project to improve transit service in San Francisco has a new chapter.

March 7 - Hoodline

While some cities debate secondary units and parking controversies, the city of North Vancouver is allowing three units on every single-family lot in the city—parking requirements not included.

March 7 - North Shore News

On Tuesday, the Trump administration anticipates unraveling two signature Obama environmental regulations: fuel efficiency standards for model year 2022-2025 light-duty vehicles and beginning the undoing of the Clean Power Plan.

March 7 - The New York Times

If Americans viewed housing as what it essentially is, a consumable good, solutions to our ongoing affordability crisis might just present themselves. And we'd probably loosen a lot of land use regulations.

March 7 - New York Times

In an ambitious plan dating back to the early 20th century, some Chicagoans want to build out park space over Lake Shore Drive's Oak Street S-bend. The project wouldn't be a straightforward one.

March 7 - Curbed Chicago

Councilmember José Huizar weighs the city's new rules against those proposed by the upcoming ballot measure.

March 7 - The Planning Report