Florida
Downsizing Affordable Housing
With small lots and small houses, one Florida home builder is taking an unconventional approach to developing affordable housing.
Unincorporated Become Incorporated In Florida
Broward County, Florida, will take a large step Friday towards completing its plan to incorporate the county's 60 unincorporated areas by 2010. Only 14,000 people will still live in unincorporated areas, down from over 150,000 10 years ago.
Court Pours Cold Water On Deltona's Hot Annexation Plans
Recent ruling by a Florida court says that the annexed property is not contiguous to the city, thus halting the proposed development plan.
A Road Too Wide
As a neighborhood road in Jacksonville is widened from four to six lanes to attract business, many residents are expressing distaste. Michael Lewyn outlines the argument against road widening.
Can A Regional Transportation Authority Solve Tampa's Road Woes?
The proposal to create an eight-county transportation authority has drawn applause, skepticism, and fear.
Miami Beach Struggles With The Cost Of Parking
To compensate for the rising cost of providing parking structures, the city is proposing to hike its impact fee to $35,000 per space.
Will Florida's Growth Management Controls Encourage Sprawl?
Home builders in Florida say that the state's plan to make developers pay for new infrastructure will promote development on cheap land away from cities.
The Politics Of Planning In Florida's Citrus Groves
Local residents of rural Palm Beach County learned how growth management laws and grass-roots opposition to a 10,000 unit major development can be trumped by lobbyists in the state capital.
New Urbanism Takes Hold In West Florida
Cities and counties in and around the Tampa Bay area are incorporating elements of New Urbanism into their planning and land use codes.
Inclusionary Housing Doesn't Work
An economist with the National Association of Home Builders argues that government mandated inclusionary housing has good goals but negative consequences.
Commuter Rail Coming To Orlando
Decades in the planning, a $491 million deal between Florida and CSX Transportation will bring relief to commuters in Central Florida, with service scheduled to begin in 2009.
Central Florida Going From Suburban To Urban
High land prices in the Orlando area have helped encourage higher density development. Urban planners applaud the new trend, but some residents worry about the change in the region's character.
Times Square-Like Development Questioned In Miami
Miami's City Commission will vote today on Citisquare, a large retail development proposed for a site next to Miami's new performing arts center. Critics deem the project's Times Square like billboards to be inappropriate for the context.
Corruption Plagues Miami-Dade's Housing Agency
The Miami Herald chronicles how the nation's most ambitious public housing effort in decades has become plagued by corruption and greed.
Protecting Wildlife, One Yard At A Time
Some homeowners are using their backyards as habitat for wildlife, providing food, water, shelter and a place to rear offspring for a variety of creatures.
Transit Village Approved Despite School Board Opposition
Sheridan Stationside Village, a $500 million, 40-acre project with a train station as a central component, gained preliminary approval in Hollywood, Florida, despite opposition from the County's school board and nearby residents.
New Urbanist Plan Approved In Rural Florida Despite Opposition By Planners and Public
Pelham Square, a 200 home development proposed by creators of Celebration, faced opposition by County planners and residents due to its rural location and density.
Is Miami's Hot Housing Market Cooling Off?
The developer of Miami's massive Midtown project says selling the project before it is built does not indicate a change in Miami's hot housing market. Some Real Estate analysts disagree.
City Creates Teacher Village As Part Of Affordable Housing Ordinance
A newly adopted affordable housing law in Coral Springs, Florida, includes a teacher village as incentive to attract teachers to a City-owned Charter School.
Will Tampa Be The Next New Orleans?
A University of South Florida professor predicts that a hurricane with similar intensity as Katrina would cause even greater devastation to Tampa Bay than was experienced by New Orleans in 2005.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
