The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

<p>A major rezoning in Jamaica, Queens, to allow more jobs and housing, up to six stories, is cautiously supported by some community boards, and opposed outright by others.</p>

August 27 - The New York Times

<p>36 Chinese cities are on the fast track to building rail-based mass transit system. Within the next decade Shanghai's subway system is expected to become the world's largest.</p>

August 27 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>The population shift from rural to urban areas is making big changes in the Great Plains. While many rural small towns are disappearing, the shift is opening new doors for business and preservation.</p>

August 27 - USA Today

<p>A population increase of 60% over the last 7 years is threatening land and history in a rural Virginia county that contains federally-recognized Civil War battlefields.</p>

August 27 - The New York Times

<p>Climate change legislation that is expected to be introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives next month includes a provision that eliminates a tax deduction for any home over 3,000 square feet.</p>

August 27 - The Washington Post

<p>California's 52-day delayed budget was just signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger and the biggest loser is transportation -- to the tune of $1.3 billion. Public transit agencies will be taking the biggest hit of all.</p>

August 27 - San Francisco Examiner

<p>A widely watched lawsuit by California's attorney general against the state's fastest growing county over the issue of inventorying and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the update of a county general plan has been settled.</p>

August 26 - The San Bernardino Sun

<p>A Canadian city suspicious about the low population count reported in the national census decided to do its own count. The city found 2,000 more people than the census -- a figure that would have equated to $600,000 more in federal grant money.</p>

August 26 - CBC

<p>The electrification of proposed rail lines in Denver has broad support, but the measure would greatly increase the project's cost and could limit future expansion.</p>

August 26 - The Denver Post

<p>Cincinnati's historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is seeing levels of investment and activity that haven't been seen there for many, many years. The largest collection of Italianate architecture in the U.S. is finally starting to see new life.</p>

August 26 - The Cincinnati Enquirer

<p>The housing saga continues in Anaheim, California, as the Disney Corporation has pushed a referendum into next June's city ballot that will let voters decide if housing should be allowed in the Disneyland-adjacent "Resort District".</p>

August 26 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>Transit planners are hoping to nail down a route for the long-sought high speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Many in San Jose say the route must run through the Silicon Valley, a major driver of California's economy.</p>

August 25 - San Jose Mercury News

<p>Leaders of suburban cities and villages in northeastern Illinois are coming together to promote transit oriented development around commuter rail lines leading into Chicago.</p>

August 25 - PioneerLocal (Sun-Times News Group)

<p>Despite thousands of signatures in its support, a proposed law that would have banned public nudity in the city of Brattleboro, Vermont, was voted down recently. A temporary ban will end next month.</p>

August 25 - NPR

<p>After decades of population decline, New York City is growing again.</p>

August 25 - International Herald Tribune

<p>Plans for an inter-island "superferry" may be stalled in Hawaii as environmental groups and the State Supreme Court have called for a more extensive environmental impact review of the harbor expansions the ferry system would require.</p>

August 25 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

<p>Plans to accommodate population growth in Los Angeles while facing a land shortage have developers giving a new meaning to "building up".</p>

August 24 - Weekly World News

<p>The Portland area's population is expected to gain more than a million people by 2030, and the suburbs ringing the city are looking to handle the growth by increasing density, building higher, and developing more vibrant suburban town centers.</p>

August 24 - The Oregonian

<p>Vancouver has once again been named the most livable city in the world. But some fear that the qualities that pushed the city to top honors will be hard to maintain as the city grows.</p>

August 24 - The Vancouver Sun

<p>In this piece from the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, Joel Kotkin writes about how L.A. politicians are blindly following the lead of developers in densifying the city without adequately debating the consequences.</p>

August 24 - The Los Angeles Times