The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The current plan for a renovated Lytle Park lacks $6 million in funding it could have had if voters had approved a parks levy in November 2015.

September 9 - Cincinnati Business Courier

A year ago, Portland declared an official housing emergency to ease homelessness and rising housing costs. A year later, the emergency continues.

September 9 - The Oregonian

The MBTA Excuse Generator probably won't work on your boss, but it does provide humorously imaginative reasons for why your train made you late to work.

September 9 - The Boston Globe

The latest Internet sensation: daily life in the community of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

September 8 - Motherboard

Public transportation increases safety. Transit travel has a tenth of the traffic fatality rate as automobile travel, and transit-oriented communities have about a fifth the per capita traffic casualty rate as in automobile-oriented communities.

September 8 - American Public Transportation Association

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to hear from the public to help explain the 35,092 traffic deaths last year, an increase of 2,348 people from 2014. It has issued a 'call to action' to help interpret the data.

September 8 - Fast Lane (DOT blog)

Faced with a national housing crisis, it's time for cities to stop letting social mores dictate who can live where.

September 8 - Slate

BLOG POST

Trust between the public and government agencies is low, and democracies are paralyzed without it. How can community engagement help restore trust? This post outlines the challenge and a process for solving it.

September 8 - Dave Biggs

The de Blasio Administration's next big rezoning push will occur in the southwest Bronx.

September 8 - New York YIMBY

A tradition as old as the Planning Department itself: proposing reforms to the planning and development approvals process in the city of Los Angeles.

September 8 - Urbanize LA

Three proposals, that is, save one. David Alpert wants to know why the public isn't considering another option for delivering necessary repairs to the D.C. Metro system.

September 8 - Greater Greater Washington

A decision to privatize the employment of drivers and maintenance workers, especially for the system's buses, could lead to a wave of layoffs.

September 8 - The Boston Globe

Results showing progress in the fight to end traffic fatalities have disappeared, just like some of the safety projects installed under the banner of Vision Zero.

September 8 - New York Post

The reservoir on the Colorado located above the Grand Canyon is dropping fast. A new study proposes a contingency plan to reduce the risk of catastrophe.

September 7 - Arizona Daily Star

Toronto Chef Planner Jennifer Keesmaat describes how she prepared her children for an old-fashioned commute to and from school.

September 7 - The Toronto Star

BLOG POST

The conventional planning wisdom seems to be that long drives are less beneficial to well-being than a short walk. But what about other commuting options?

September 7 - Michael Lewyn

The Office of Extraordinary Innovation at Los Angeles Metro is just over a year old. KPCC checks in.

September 7 - KPCC

There's a physical cost to rising rents, and Oakland residents are paying the price.

September 7 - SFGate

Joe Mathews of Zócalo Public Square views with a great deal of skepticism the urban growth boundaries the voters of Ventura County adjacent to Los Angeles County have enacted since 1995 due to the lack of infill. Another measure is on the ballot.

September 7 - San Francisco Chronicle

The service would operate through Waze, and take a different approach than Uber or Lyft.

September 7 - Ars Technica