The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Wal-Mart's plan to build a megastore in a historic neighborhood is facing opposition from historic preservationists.

January 6 - The New York Times

Los Angeles officials claim that billboard company violated their contract. Judge halts their work until hearing.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

The wealthy homeowners in Malibu have locked the public easements to the beach, and public agencies are doing nothing.

January 5 - The Los Angeles Times

A lawsuit alleges that McHenry County, Illinois imposed illegal school impact fees on homebuilders for over ten years.

January 5 - Crain's Chicago Business

Homelessness is on the rise across the nation but it hits harder in Minnesota, where winter temperatures can fall far below zero.

January 5 - The New York Times

New residents of fast-growing Auburn Township fight to slow growth.

January 5 - Cleveland Live

New York City officials said that tall skyscrapers at the site of the World Trade Center are not "economically practical" and preferred a victims' memorial and smaller structures.

January 5 - Sun-Sentinel

Is Detroit's sour attitude to public transportation finally ending? It looks that way in the city that invented mass production of private vehicles and ardently pursued the nation's sprawling development patterns.

January 4 - Michigan Land Use Institute

To avoid turning into bedroom community, Hartford, WI, embraces New Urbanism.

January 4 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Los Angeles county and city officials say a major billboard company has violated ordinances by installing billboards along freeways.

January 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepares a proposal to rehabilitate a 16-mile stretch of the Santa Clara River that supports threatnened species.

January 4 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

The biggest redevelopment agency in California may put itself out of business unless the state Legislature comes to the rescue.

January 4 - California Planning and Development Report

The Greater Toronto region in Canada faces urban sprawl and a transportation crisis.

January 4 - The Toronto Star

Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan talks with experts about the latest developments in the automobile industry.

January 4 - National Public Radio

Amtrak's political protectors have once again forestalled the liquidation of the "government's national passenger railroad".

January 4 - Wall St. Journal

William Freh discusses what the demographic complexion reflected by the Census 2000 data means for real estate investment.

January 4 - REIS

Decades of concealed pollution by corporate giant devastated Anniston, AL.

January 4 - The Washington Post

Monsanto created one of the most contaminated areas in the U.S. The corporate giant knew about the pollution and concealed it for nearly 40 years.

January 3 - The Washington Post

Based on updates to the 2000 Census, HomeStore.com publishes its list of the ten cheapest places to live.

January 3 - Homestore

Residents of Boca Raton, FL. do not want storefronts to be converted storefronts into luxury townhomes but prefer to keep a shopping center.

January 3 - Sun-Sentinel