We're in our late 30s with two young boys who need space to run around. But we love living in the city...
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Salt Lake City planners want to ensure a new North Temple TRAX route slices through City Hall's red tape.  To that end, they hope to create a new North Temple zoning district along the planned airport TRAX line that would lead to shorter reviews for transit-focused developments....
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Mayor Byron Brown announced today his administration is moving forward on implementing a green, form-based code in Buffalo.  Mayor Brown chose the Larkin District as the backdrop to announce his Earth Day plans for what he's dubbing the "Buffalo Green Code," a replacement code that will completely scrap Buffalo's existing zoning ordinance, an unwieldy document last updated in 1951...
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How are we to understand the spread of the notion of capacity building in neighbourhood regeneration and policies to fight social exclusion? In this article, capacity building is understood as central to the mode of contemporary governance and the strategies of 'the third way' in England and Denmark.....
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In the world of zoning codes, the one now on Mesa's books might as well be a Model T. True, it's not that old, dating only to 1988 and tuned up several times since then. But it chugs along on essentially one cylinder, its spare prose serving largely to specify what land uses are allowed in different parts of town. It offers few clues as to its authors' vision for Mesa and little advice as to how the city should look...
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The DC blogosphere stirred a bit yesterday regarding the DC Office of the Zoning Administrator's announcement that the commercial neighborhood surrounding 14th and U Streets NW had reached its threshold for bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and carry-outs...
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There is no question that sustainable land use requires, among other things, neighborhood density.  Indeed, I have basically staked my career on the proposition that we must increase the average density of our new (and, in some cases, existing) built environment in the US if we are to achieve anything near sustainability as we absorb more growth...
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"As the city moves forward and seeks funding for the streetcar and other initiatives to make our neighborhoods more livable and reduce our carbon footprint, our zoning code should reflect our readiness to implement transit oriented development," Read On