The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Could vacancy taxes solve multiple housing challenges at once?

January 30 - WBUR

In every phase of transit development, arts and culture strategies can be employed to inform and enhance the process. Here are examples from three different transit projects around the country.

January 30 - Shelterforce Magazine

GM's first non-internal combustion engine vehicle assembly plant will be in the form of 35-year-old plant straddling the Detroit-Hamtramck border thanks in part to a $2.27 billion state tax credit. Electric pickups, SUVs, and AVs will be produced.

January 30 - Detroit Free Press

For the third year in a row, an effort to increase density near transit in statewide in California has stalled in the legislature.

January 30 - Los Angeles Times

The public is getting a chance to give feedback on the city's proposed changes to a project that would realign and widen Interstate 45 near downtown Houston.

January 30 - Houston Chronicle

Congressional Democrats hope transportation infrastructure can be a winning political point during a campaign year following the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

January 30 - The Hill

Residents are arguing that a Williamsburg development would negatively affect the neighborhood. But it’s a grassroots effort to protect the status quo in a neighborhood where gentrification benefited them.

January 30 - New York Post

Amidst a crisis of housing affordability around the country, one media organization is leveraging public records law to discover answers to questions, long obscured from the public, about who controls the real estate market.

January 29 - KPBS

If passed, a new law would require homeless shelter developments in New York City to undergo the full Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

January 29 - Staten Island Advance

The historic, car-free transformation of San Francisco's busiest street opens to the public today.

January 29 - London Breed via Medium

A plan to sell water intended for agricultural uses to help fuel the development of a city on the edge of the Phoenix metropolitan area has inspired new state legislation.

January 29 - Arizona Republic

A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts dire consequences for congestion and carbon emissions if e-commerce delivery services proliferate unchecked.

January 29 - Supply Chain DIve

A recent study claiming that transportation costs in Houston, among other expenses, raise the cost of living almost to the same level as living in New York City. Some took exception to the study's methodology.

January 29 - E21

When tolls rise on the 66 Express Lanes, trips decrease. according to a new report by the Virginia Department of Transportation.

January 29 - Patch

A strongly worded opinion piece calls out historic preservation as a tool of the affluent urban elite.

January 29 - The New York Times

It will be a big year for transit openings in North America, with even more on the way in years to follow.

January 28 - the transport politic

Though studies show that over their lifetime EVs produce fewer emissions than gas guzzlers, EVs generate considerably more CO2 than a gas car on the assembly line, making renewably sourced energy a key factor for an EV to break even with a gas car.

January 28 - Wisconsin AV Proving Ground

The state gas tax cannot provide the funding that Washington needs for its transportation system, according to a recent opinion piece published by the Seattle Times. But state legislators can look to bold, progressive revenue options for the future.

January 28 - The Seattle Times

The recently revealed Proto-Model-X building would reach new heights for timber.

January 28 - Sidewalk Talk

The idea of taxing rental homes at a commercial rate is likely to be a hot button in Colorado.

January 28 - The Denver Post