The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

A regional measure to tax all property owners in the 9-county Bay Area to adapt to sea level rise passes; S.F. voters support raising the affordable housing bar; Richmond voters reject ballot-box planning; San José approves sales tax increase.

June 9 - Planetizen

NextCity surveys a variety of new data-collecting technologies meant to clarify the impacts of bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects.

June 9 - Next City

A web tool that helped Detroit develop a housing plan may ultimately provide public data on every parcel in the country.

June 9 - The Washington Post

LADOT’s first artist-in-residence will engage the city’s many subcultures, and its lively art scene, in his effort to improve pedestrian safety.

June 9 - Gizmodo

Global architecture firm Gensler is doing its job to get the ball rolling on the dormant former site of the Spire project designed by Santiago Calatrava.

June 9 - Curbed Chicago

The state of Pennsylvania and the county of Beaver have what they wanted: Shell has decided to build a new ethane cracker facility northwest of Pittsburgh.

June 9 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Powersource

Track the rise of "super slender" towers in New York with an online tool from the Skyscraper Museum.

June 9 - Dezeen

Compared with European averages, U.S. and Canadian residents spend 30-50 percent more money and time on transport due to dispersed, automobile-dependent development.

June 8 - City Observatory

This month a new generation of urban planners will transition from planning school to the workplace—it is a season for new ideas.

June 8 - North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association

The proposed East-West Bus Rapid Transit project has already built the political support that doomed a previous attempt at light rail along the corridor.

June 8 - Urban Milwaukee

Metro's first Quality of Life report measures the impact of the agency's transit investments since 2008.

June 8 - The Source

It’s time to rewrite California’s building and planning codes for the 21st century, says architect Mark Hogan.

June 8 - BOOM: A Journal of California

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority unanimously approved the 30-year, half-cent transportation sales tax for the countywide ballot in November. $1.5 billion in tax revenues would go to Phase II of a BART extension in the Silicon Valley.

June 8 - Planetizen

It seems like one step forward and two steps back for a proposal to develop two residential towers at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

June 8 - Politico

FEATURE

The debate about whether Millennials prefer urban or suburban misses a big, important point: what Millennials really prefer is possible in either setting.

June 8 - Ben Cummins

In November, Wake County, North Carolina voters will decide on a half-cent sales tax to fund a plan to improve transit in the Research Triangle (home to North Carolina State, Duke, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill).

June 8 - The News & Observer

The idea that half the world's population has moved to cities, with more coming soon, misses a fundamental fact about cities: many of them are actually suburbs.

June 8 - Undark

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency is in the community outreach phase of a long-term transportation planning effort. The plan is expected to be complete by the end of 2016 and ready for board approval early in 2017.

June 7 - Cleveland Plain Dealer

The Austin Parks and Recreation Department put the proposed Grove at Shoal Creek Planned Unit Development on a short timeout earlier this month, but only to negotiate final details of the massive project.

June 7 - Austin Monitor

Accounts of disgruntled residents responding by any means necessary to the flood of cars beckoned by the whims of navigation apps like Waze are spreading across the country.

June 7 - The Washington Post