Urban Development

Civic San Diego and San Diego planning commissioners approved new parking standards that would eliminate minimums and set maximums of one space per multifamily unit. Those reforms and more must still be approved by the City Council.

February 4, 2019 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

Road pricing has its faults as a revenue measure, but it needs to be compared to ten elements of the current system of paying for transportation, including hidden subsidies, says Joe Cortright, an urban economist with Portland-based City Observatory.

February 4, 2019 - City Observatory

Sandpoint, Idaho removed minimum parking requirements a decade ago. The city's director of planning describes what happened since.

February 4, 2019 - Strong Towns

Traffic and cars play a central role in the social media chatter surrounding the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

February 3, 2019 - Planetizen

The hot dogs cost $1,999,999,998 less than the stadium, and either $199,999,998 or $699,999,998 less than taxpayers invested in the stadium.

February 3, 2019 - CBS News

The pedestrian bridge connecting Mercedes-Benz Stadium to a nearby transit stop won't be open in time for the Super Bowl, despite the city allocating an additional $12 million in funding for exactly that goal.

February 3, 2019 - Curbed Atlanta

The Transbay Transit Center, opened for a brief stint in the latter half of 2018 before structural flaws were discovered, won't be open to the public again anytime soon.

February 2, 2019 - San Francisco Chronicle

As more people head to Idaho to escape cities they cannot afford, Boise is encouraging growth and also grappling with the consequences.

February 1, 2019 - Curbed

Foxconn has reversed course, reinstating plans to build a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin after casting doubt on the idea earlier this week.

February 1, 2019 - Associated Press via Chicago Tribune

If it approves HB 1797, Washington will pace the rest of the nation (even California and Oregon) on reforming zoning to allow more accessory dwelling units.

January 31, 2019 - Sightline Institute

Not all Metrorail station areas are zoned for transit oriented development.

January 31, 2019 - Greater Greater Washington

Once promising a major manufacturing facility and 13,000 new jobs, Foxconn is now promising a research and development facility and the number of jobs is much less clear.

January 31, 2019 - Chicago Tribune

"It's all about cars and houses," according to the Boston Globe.

January 31, 2019 - Th Boston Globe

The New York City Department of City Planning has released its preliminary rezoning proposal for the neighborhood of Gowanus in Brooklyn.

January 31, 2019 - amNew York

The Central SoMa Plan took more than seven years of planning and debate to approve. A new lawsuit, expected to be just the first of many, threatens to erase all that work.

January 30, 2019 - San Francisco Chronicle

An interactive map shows the surprising density of the Garden State.

January 30, 2019 - NJ.com

A proposed development in Minneapolis would add affordable units in exchange for extra height. A neighborhood group worries about the precedent the project would set.

January 30, 2019 - Star Tribune

Call it "Tax Breaklandia," according to this Bloomberg article.

January 29, 2019 - Bloomberg BusinessWeek

The city’s "7-acre rule" limited liquor licenses to restaurants in a commercial zone, but a repeal of the ordinance last year means that restaurants across the city can now apply to serve liquor.

January 29, 2019 - Star Tribune

The example of Oceanwide Plaza, which recently halted construction across the street from the Staples Center, raises more questions than it answers about foreign investment in Downtown Los Angeles' revitalization.

January 28, 2019 - Los Angeles Times