The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Uber (and Lyft, of course) drivers and taxi drivers hope a cap on the number of ride-hailing vehicles would improve wages and reduce congestion.

August 7 - The New York Times

The new program would allow short-term use of vacant properties, and provide new incubation capabilities to small, start-up businesses.

August 6 - The Architect's Newspaper

Permeable crosswalks absorb water and snowmelt, while decreasing ice on the road.

August 6 - KHSB NBC

A proposal by the nation's largest utility could be a model to deal with the most formidable problem presented by intermittent renewable electricity sources.

August 6 - The New York Times

The new Antioch station is seeing ridership well over predictions, and some think there would be even more riders if there were more parking.

August 6 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that would tie federal funding to pro-development policies at the local level.

August 6 - The American Prospect

Oakland property prices have gone way up, but vacant land can be found all over the city. Hayley Raetz argues getting development on this land should be a policy priority.

August 6 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Electric scooters in Portland will pay a road fee, but according to this article, cities would do well to hold cars to the same standard as scooters.

August 6 - City Observatory

Houses that aren't vulnerable to embers blowing in the wind, could save the government and homeowners millions.

August 6 - 99 Percent Invisible

Marisa Lago pens in an opinion piece supporting a regional approach to planning, timed for the release of a new "Geography of Jobs" report.

August 6 - Medium

A professor of planning calls out the emotional abuse facing planners—from professional colleagues in related fields, from elected officials, and from the public.

August 6 - Lisa Schweitzer

BLOG POST

One common argument against building new housing in high cost cities is that people priced out of those cities can always move somewhere cheaper. This post responds to that claim.

August 5 - Michael Lewyn

Transit activists celebrated the good news that residents will finally be given the opportunity to join the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority but bemoaned that they would have to wait till March 2020 to vote on the one percent sales tax.

August 5 - WSB-TV - Atlanta

An architect makes the case for future-proofing new parking garages so they can easily shift to other uses in a future with fewer cars.

August 5 - Fast Company

Twenty-eight years after the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Texas has plenty of work to do if it's going to provide opportunity to Americans struggling with disabilities.

August 5 - The Dallas Morning News

On Thursday, the U.S. DOT and U.S. EPA announced one of the Trump administration's most consequential rollbacks of environmental and efficiency regulations that will have a detrimental effect on climate change, air pollution, and oil consumption.

August 5 - The Washington Post

The historically Latino working class neighborhood is a frequent touchstone in debates over gentrification in Los Angeles. That history goes back decades and colors residents' perceptions.

August 4 - BOOM: A Journal of California

Heavy fines on cars without city stickers have fueled a spike in bankruptcies in Chicago, especially in black neighborhoods like Lawndale and Englewood where households received many times more tickets than households in white neighborhoods.

August 4 - ProPublica

Do residents in Vancouver, Washington need protection from congestion pricing applied to all lanes on two Portland interstates? Gov. Jay Inslee seems to think so, adding that the value pricing pilot project is "going nowhere."

August 4 - The Columbian

Lobbyists from a diesel bus manufacturer, New Flyer, reached out to Miami's mayor after the company lost a bid for new buses in the city to electric bus company Proterra.

August 4 - The Miami Herald