The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

One resident argues that adding a unit for long-term rental is too expensive and difficult, especially when compared to the city’s ‘super easy’ process for permitting a short-term or vacation rental.

January 24 - The Seattle Times

Census data are used in a variety of ways that impact parks and recreation, including helping to determine where new parks are built and how funds for park projects and recreation programs are distributed.

January 24 - National Recreation and Park Association Open Space Blog

California housing regulators have granted preliminary approval for the city of San Francisco’s housing element as mandated by the state’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation process.

January 24 - San Francisco Chronicle

Metro plans to invest half a million dollars in the city’s bike share system to improve connectivity to buses and trains.

January 24 - Houston Chronicle

The city installed reflective posts and speed bumps at dangerous intersections to induce drivers to take left turns more slowly and carefully.

January 24 - Axios

A new study suggests that short-term rentals are contributing to the region’s housing shortage and helping drive up costs for renter households.

January 24 - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Mayor Wu says putting a rent control policy in place is just one of several ways the city plans to improve housing affordability and prevent evictions, but the proposal requires state approval.

January 24 - The Boston Globe

Learn about eight L.A. parks that you can reach from Union Station without a car.

January 23 - Los Angeles Times

Learn more about Monterey Park, a city in the San Gabriel Valley, which was devastated by a mass shooting over the weekend.

January 23 - Los Angeles Times

Artificial intelligence is being used to generate all kinds of content. Can it successfully replace architecture critics, or does understanding place require physical presence?

January 23 - The Dallas Morning News

The program connects tribal communities with resources to help households in some of the nation’s most underresourced reservations access homeownership.

January 23 - Next City

Fatal crashes killed slightly fewer people in 2022 than in 2021, but deaths are still significantly higher than in 2019.

January 23 - Axios

Highway widenings still attract support from both sides of the political aisle, despite the inadequacies of the approach in solving the problems it intends to solve.

January 23 - The Kansas City Star

Urban cores around the country were transforming into live, work, and play destinations before the pandemic. The pandemic was a setback for this transformation, but it could also be a rare opportunity. It’s up to city leadership to seize it.

January 23 - The Washington Post

Some state legislators are proposing action at the state level as counties block development using zoning and development requirements even as housing prices rise sharply in the region.

January 23 - The Virginia Mercury

Senate Bill 9, approved by the California State Legislature to much fanfare in 2021, has had little impact on the way local governments do development business, according to a recent analysis by researchers at the University of California.

January 22 - Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Almost all U.S. mayors have some level of concern about climate change in their communities, but local leaders face some challenges in taking action.

January 22 - Smart Cities Dive

Philadelphia’s transit agency faces some structural challenges as it struggles to reorganize its services and bring back ridership.

January 22 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A recent series of data on the growth of households in the United States reveals the unprecedented scale of housing demand in recent years.

January 22 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

The city is complying with an Oregon state mandate that some cities have challenged in court.

January 20 - KTVZ