The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A plan to rezone parcels around the busy intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, called the Hub, will undergo an analysis of the potential impacts of the plan on marginalized communities.

July 27 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Plans to expand and upgrade Union Station in D.C. might have gone overboard with parking, according to the public comments on the project's draft Environmental Impact Statement.

July 27 - Greater Greater Washington

Elon Musk poked the transit planning community on social media last week with a rendering of the forthcoming Las Vegas Convention Center Loop tunnel.

July 27 - Curbed

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) is considering a new policy that will add considerations about regional economic inequities when evaluating potential highway projects.

July 27 - The Plain Dealer

The Roswell City Council discussed how limiting multi-family developments could increase housing costs, and then voted to limit multi-family development anyway.

July 27 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Older, white homeowners take up far more than an equal share of the seats at the planning table in San Diego.

July 26 - Voice of San Diego

Stephen Quinn, host of CBC Radio One's popular morning show The Early Edition, offered a prompt to the Twitterverse last week and inspired plenty of creativity.

July 26 - Stephen Quinn via Twitter

On the day before America reached the grim milestone of four million COVID-19 cases, with one million added in the last 15 days, Anthony Fauci shared views on where the nation is headed in the pandemic.

July 26 - Newsweek

SWA Group was selected by the Freedom Park Conservancy to create a new master plan and reimagine the park with its legacy in mind.

July 26 - The Architect's Newspaper

A study finds that a third of workers would prefer to work remotely every day of the workweek, potentially removing nearly 50 million cars from U.S. roadways.

July 24 - Streetsblog USA

Beauty is often known to break the rules.

July 24 - Strong Towns

An annual survey by the Mineta Transportation Institute found new levels of support for a change in the way the federal government raises money from, and for, highway infrastructure.

July 24 - Streetsblog USA

Bike share data from six U.S. cities offer insight into how Americans have changed travel patterns during the pandemic.

July 24 - Citymetric

In struggling communities full of single-family homes, the cost is too high for developers to acquire and renovate blighted properties. The Neighborhood Homes Investment Act would offer an incentive for investment in existing building stock.

July 23 - Affordable Housing Finance

The first shelter-at-home order issued in the pandemic's resurgence in the U.S. took effect Wednesday morning in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, an overwhelmingly Latino region that has been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.

July 23 - The Monitor

A regional plan for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area is available for public comment.

July 23 - San Francisco Chronicle

Elected officials in San Francisco and Santa Clara counties have produced a counter proposal after killing a proposed sales tax last week.

July 23 - The Mercury News

Increased stress, increased speeds, more drinking and driving—whatever the reason, traffic fatalities are climbing rapidly even as more Americans leave the car parked at home.

July 23 - Smart Cities Dive

Important changes are necessary to promote racial equity in transit policy, governance, and agency recruitment, according to Darnell Grisby, director of policy development at the American Public Transit Association.

July 23 - Bloomberg CityLab

The day that renters relying on public support to pay the bills have been dreading since March arrives tomorrow.

July 23 - The Washington Post