Virginia
Quick And Cheap Solutions To Traffic Problems: Part 3
D.C. area's Metro explores examples of quick, relatively modest ways to improve the bus network.
East Vs. West in Loudoun County
What will be the fate of growth restrictions imposed over the past 4 years in Loudoun County, Virginia?
Is It Time To Scrap Virginia's Dillon Rule?
Should Virginia's time-honored Dillon Rule, which reserves most powers tp the state unless explicitly eelegated to county and city governments, be scrapped?
Transportation Enhancements: A Good Use Of Taxpayer Dollars?
Federal highway tax dollars are spent on some unlikely projects.
The 'Peculiar Geometry' of Suburbia
Scarce land, high housing prices, and convoluted local rules are resulting in developers resorting to odly-shaped lots. While some say it's creative planning, other warn of problems.
Friday Funny: Stranger Than Fiction
A woman in Alexandria, VA uses an essay contest to dispose of her properties.
Community Action Gets Results
Through action and self advocacy, an impoverished community secures funding for new homes and economic development.
Downtown Richmond's Hidden Parking Potential
Outdated parking regulations in Richmond, Va. outlive changed traffic patterns.
Virginia Lending Policy To Include Gay Couples
"Virginia's housing authority will provide low-interest mortgages to gay couples and other singles living together, abandoning a one-of-a-kind lending policy that limited such help to married couples and single people living alone, commis
Rural Megachurches: Assets Or Environmental Threats?
Critics say large-scale churches seeking to locate in rural preserves increase traffic, invite strip malls, pave over open space, and undermine conservation efforts.
Stadium NIMBYs
Arlington County, VA is willing to forego a baseball stadium for other developments that would yield more economic benefits.
Highway Spurs Growth Before It Is Opened To Traffic
VA 288 is spurring development in Richmond area's western growth corridor.
Beltway HOT Lanes Proposal Endorsed
Public-private partnership proposal to add four new managed lanes to virginia's portion of the Beltway moves ahead.
Urban Or Suburban? New Transit Study Has The Answer
A new study compares life at each end of Virginia's Orange Line.
Public Housing Trespass Ban Upheld
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to invalidate a Richmond housing authority policy to keep nonresidents out of city housing projects.
Using Environmental Ordinances To Slow Development?
Are stream buffers effective or is Fairfax County, VA, using environmental ordinances to slow development?
Can Good Behavior Be Legislated?
City's morality effort aims to make the beach a little less coarse.
Families With Children Need Not Apply?
Of all the people moving into the new 80-unit Broadway condominium in Falls Church [Virginia], only one is expected to be a school-age child.
SUVs Banned From Parking In Dense Neighborhoods
A community does not allow SUVs to park on its narrow streets.
Form-Based Code Reaps Dividends
The Columbia Pike Initiative has established a planning framework for the first construction for small business in 40 years.
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
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
