At the risk of turning Market Urbanism into Reblogging Matt Yglesias, here’s another interesting post from the blogosphere’s most famous market urbanist about reforming DC’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) system. After discussing a recent decision by an ANC incumbent to deny Five Guys permission to open up a sidewalk cafe in an otherwise barren [...]
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October 28th, 2010 | Tags: dc, Donald Shoup, Matt Yglesias, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments |  printable viewUrbanism doesn’t get a lot of breaking news (that is, unless Eric Fidler’s prediction pans out), but this might be an exception: the WSJ is reporting that Obama’s (bipartisan?) deficit commission is considering cutting the mortgage-interest tax deduction. The reports are all very speculative, but it looks like they’re definitely not considering eliminating the [...] October 27th, 2010 | Tags: mortgage interest deduction, taxes | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments | printable viewMatt Yglesias has been on a roll lately with the urbanism posts, all of which have a heavy “market urbanist” slant, but it’s this post about parking reform in/around Boston (riffing off of this Boston Globe article) that seals the deal for me: Regulators pushing developers to build less parking than they want is [...] October 26th, 2010 | Tags: New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, smart growth, taxes | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments | printable view1. Donald Shoup makes up for last week with an interesting piece on how America’s tax structure biases employers towards providing parking for their employees, similar to how untaxed employer-provided healthcare shapes that industry. 2. Back in August Randal O’Toole asked for proof that minimum parking requirements force Walmart to build more parking than [...] October 20th, 2010 | Tags: Donald Shoup, parking, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith, Urban Planning | Category: parking | 4 comments | printable view1. Cap’n Transit weighs in on the ARC debate, and shows that Chris Christie is more interested in shifting resources to his suburban constituents than to cutting spending. Here’s the best part: Editorial board member: What’s the difference between a gas tax hike and a fare hike, besides who it lands on? Christie: That’s [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: dc, Donald Shoup, height restriction, New Jersey, Stephen Smith | Category: parking, zoning | 5 comments | printable viewEarlier today I read an article by Daniel Garst about Bejing’s awkward population distribution that reminded me of a journal article about the general shape of socialist cities that I read a while back. Garst talks about Beijing being a “circus tent” when it comes to density, with population density increasing as you travel [...] October 19th, 2010 | Tags: Beijing, density, Moscow, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, housing, planning, zoning | 12 comments | printable viewAn influential highway group has called for replacing the flat tax on gas with a percentage tax, according to the Wall Street Journal. They want to replace the current 18.4 and 24.4 cent taxes on gasoline and diesel, respectively, with more flexible 8.4% and 10.6% tax rates. At current gas prices that would be [...] October 16th, 2010 | Tags: gas tax, Stephen Smith | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 6 comments | printable viewDespite my issues with how new transit projects are implemented in America today, I’m generally happy to see them built. Even though they’re flawed, heavily-subsidized government creations, they make upzoning more palatable and can later be sold off and privately managed. There’s a lot I’d do differently, but on net I think most new [...] October 15th, 2010 | Tags: airports, mass transit, Oakland, Shanghai, Stephen Smith | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 34 comments | printable view |
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