The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>Officials in Honolulu is considering increasing the height limitations that dictate how tall buildings can rise in the beachside city. The mayor and city council hope that an increase in density will bring sustainable growth to the city.</p>

January 28 - Honolulu Star Bulletin

<p>More Chinese are abandoning their bicycles -- not because they now own cars but because the dramatic increase in automobile use is making city streets too dangerous for cycling. But cyclists are fighting back.</p>

January 28 - The Globe and Mail

<p>For the second year, no U.S. city has made the list of the world's top Intelligent Communities, as select by the Intelligent Community Forum, a global think tank.</p>

January 27 - Network World

<p>Number of home owners defaulting on mortgage loans is rising in California.</p>

January 27 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Wind power capacity in the U.S. rose by 27% and continues to attract support from government and investors.</p>

January 27 - GreenBiz.com

<p>The Jimmy Carter charity, long identified with "sweat equity" and affordable housing, is confronting strong, residential opposition in its application to build four homes to accompany three market-rate homes in affluent Marin County west of Tiburon.</p>

January 27 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Costco is the anchor tenant in a new Downtown Vancouver mixed-used development that partially opened November 2006. Besides going mixed-use, Costco also added underground parking to adapt to its new urban environment.</p>

January 27 - Seattle Daily Journal Of Commerce

<p>A road sign goes too far in explaining road hazards.</p>

January 26 - The Onion

<p>Home Depot and Apple are dropping plans for two big Manhattan stores. The Slatin Report offers the insider's view on the deals.</p>

January 26 - The Slatin Report

<p>Chris Plumbago, associate professor of urban planning at the University of Columbus, offers a model of a 'tragically amusing' rejection letter from an academic journal.</p>

January 26 - Urban Planning Research Blog

<p>Ed Blakely, New Orleans' recently named recovery czar, will have his hands full as a research fellow studying climate change as he manages the city's planning and reconstruction.</p>

January 26 - AP via The Times Picayune

<p>In October, Planetizen reported on the "largest real estate deal in US history". Profits of the $5.4 billion sale in NYC could be reduced by 6%, or $324 million, if tenants win their suit that 25% of the 12,232 apartments were illegally deregulated.</p>

January 26 - The New York Times

<p>Low parking meter collection rates have shocked public officials in San Francisco, where parking is so valuable people are literally killing for it.</p>

January 26 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>Indonesia's private airplanes and trains are not subject to stringent regulation officials say. As a result, the government compromises safety.</p>

January 26 - BBC World

<p>As Cleveland and the Ohio Department of Transportation make plans for a reconstruction of an urban stretch of highway without a bike lane, it seems the transportation agency doesn't care about the quarter of the city's residents who don't drive cars.</p>

January 26 - The Cleveland Free Times

<p>In an effort to put a modern face on Calcutta, the Indian state of West Bengal has outlawed rickshaw pulling.</p>

January 26 - The Globe and Mail

<p>This editorial calls on public officials in South Carolina and Georgia to work together to build a river port that will benefit them both.</p>

January 26 - Savannah Morning News

<p>Passage of an ordinance making it illegal to sit or lie on sidewalks in Portland, Oregon, has been delayed by the city's mayor until more benches and public restrooms have been installed.</p>

January 26 - The Portland Tribune

<p>Do we need new carpool lanes or just new rules for the existing ones?</p>

January 25 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Wendell Cox and Ronald Utt suggest that smart growth abuses are creating a "Rent Belt" of high-Cost areas.</p>

January 25 - The Heritage Foundation