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"The Practice of Democracy: A View from Connecticut" is a new exhibition on display from January to June in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Norwalk which unpacks the relationship of land use and development to democracy.

March 8 - Mark H. McNulty

Residents of Los Angeles who drive less are exposed to higher rates of air pollution due to policies that have encouraged commuting through low-income neighborhoods.

March 7 - USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

A proposed bill would pave the way for school districts to use their transportation budgets to support chaperones for biking or walking, public transit passes, or other modes.

March 7 - Oregon Live

The rising cost of housing, along with the pandemic, has transformed the lack of housing affordable to teachers in expensive parts of California from bad to worse. Solutions so far only address half the problem or don’t go far enough.

March 7 - The Guardian

Even with the growth of electric vehicles, experts say the trend toward larger, heavier vehicles is inherently incompatible with environmental goals.

March 7 - The New Yorker

Lessons from community activists around the country provide insight into how ‘freeway fighters’ can leverage recent momentum against road expansions to have more impact in 2023.

March 7 - Streetsblog USA

A proposed measure would require developers receiving city incentives to provide more benefits to local stakeholders and increase local hiring.

March 7 - Signal Cleveland

A proposed zoning change would allow up to four units on almost 3,000 additional parcels.

March 7 - St. Pete Catalyst

Similar to other plans focused on reducing emissions from the transportation plan, North Carolina’s draft Clean Transportation Plan will rely on electric vehicles to reduce emissions from the state’s transportation sector.

March 7 - Government Technology

Many U.S. transit agencies have policies allowing riders to request dropoffs between stops, but fail to publicize them to passengers and operators.

March 6 - Next City

Los Angeles County just broke ground on a $41 million stormwater capture project at Adventure Park in Whittier.

March 6 - Spectrum News 1

Learn more about Los Angeles County's Parks Needs Assessment Plus (PNA+) which focuses on environmental conservation and restoration, regional recreation, and rural recreation.

March 6 - Parks & Recreation Magazine

The solution to making public transit better doesn’t lie in technological innovations or hyper-modern trains, but in investing in one of its simplest tools.

March 6 - The Conversation

A proposed bill would require larger towns to add protected bike lanes to any new road improvements and direct state funding to applicable projects.

March 6 - Smart Cities Dive

The federal dollars that are making their way to infrastructure projects around the country are largely supporting highway and bridge projects as transit agencies struggling to finance day-to-day operations delay capital investments.

March 6 - Smart Cities Dive

The company is pausing construction on its much-anticipated second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

March 6 - Bloomberg

The Indian Housing Block Grant program supports affordable housing efforts in Native American and Native Alaskan communities, which face some of the nation’s highest poverty rates and housing shortages.

March 6 - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Bay Area Council and CBRE created an economic tracker to measure how well the nation's 25 largest metropolitan areas have recovered from the public health restrictions imposed on their regions at the onset of the pandemic.

March 5 - Bay City News Foundation

A remote corner of the state is the nation’s fastest-growing metro area, but concerns about water supplies across the Southwest signal an uncertain future.

March 5 - CNN

An interstate project decades in the making is being investigated by federal authorities for claims that it would perpetuate historically racist land use patterns.

March 5 - The Current