The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The 14th Street Busway will make its debut on Thursday of this week. Cars will be prohibited from the street and buses will gain newfound freedom, in a model that duplicates other efforts in Europe and Canada.

September 30 - Bloomberg

The Boston Globe reports on reasons to suspect more conflicts of interest than there appears on the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal.

September 30 - The Boston Globe

The Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization is proposing a 45-mile network of high-occupancy toll lanes on I–64 that includes conversions of 16 miles of carpool and three miles of general-purpose lanes. No unpriced lanes would be added.

September 30 - The Virginian-Pilot

Three years after passing a $256 million housing bond, city officials in Portland, Oregon, report that over 1,400 units of affordable housing will result from planned and completed projects.

September 30 - The Oregonian

A massive effort to restore the Los Angeles River to more public access and open space amentias continues to raise the specter of gentrification in neighborhoods already feeling the pressure of the housing market.

September 30 - Los Angeles Times

A plan to build a cap over Interstate 5 in Downtown Seattle has taken a small but significant step forward.

September 30 - The Urbanist

The Chicago Tribune sends a message to the political leadership of Illinois and Chicago about population decline, and its causes.

September 30 - Chicago Tribune

FEATURE

Thirty years after a seminal study attempted to connect increased density with decreased automobile use, several new studies are raising doubts about that central assumption of contemporary planning.

September 30 - Fanis Grammenos

One of the more aggressive inclusionary zoning programs in the country has been in place long enough to evaluate for lessons regarding the effectiveness of the controversial affordable housing development tool.

September 30 - Commercial Observer

Public transportation that serves regional areas makes sense, but the United States has been slow to pursue strategies and policies that foster these types of systems.

September 29 - the transport politic

Natalie Bicknell notes several deficiencies in the roadmap that resulted from Seattle's participation in the Rockefeller Foundation's now-defunct 100 Resilient Cities program.

September 29 - The Urbanist

Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is under severe assault from the Trump administration, Stephen Trimble writes. Long the focus of preservation efforts, the protected land is being opened up for extractive uses.

September 29 - The Hill

A new program that will incentivize scooter "juicers," the people who collect and charge electric scooters for a fee, to switch to green energy.

September 29 - CityLab

Downtown Brooklyn is New York City's third-largest central business district, and a 2004 rezoning was meant to increase the commercial footprint in the area. Instead there's been more residential development than planners anticipated.

September 29 - Crain's New York Business

Lakewood is taking an aggressive approach to homeless people sleeping in cars on public streets.

September 28 - The Denver Post

The villages offer much-needed housing for homeless people, but controversy is brewing over their operations.

September 28 - The Seattle Times

A hugely significant water and power infrastructure project in the works in Utah is now only a water project.

September 28 - The Salt Lake Tribune

A Curbed feature details the ongoing transformation of a formerly inaccessible and inhospitable corner of New York City.

September 28 - Curbed New York

A new report examines a range of strategies that limit the displacement effects of park projects.

September 28 - CityLab

Permits for new housing continue to lag despite a long economic boom. For coastal metros, it's a familiar story of job growth outpacing new construction. In some Sun Belt cities, sprawl is the bigger concern.

September 27 - CityLab