California Assembly Bill 710 was introduced to earlier this year to tackle the problem of municipalities requiring onerous amounts of parking for new development, widely recognized as one of the main impediments to transit-oriented development and infill growth. The bill would have capped city and county parking requirements in neighborhoods with good transit to one [...]
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October 7th, 2011 | Tags: affordable housing, California, New York City, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Lifestyle, Op/Ed, parking, Places & Spaces, Policy, zoning | Comments are closed |
 printable viewCalifornia has, since the ’70s, had some of the strictest environmental laws in the country, but urbanists have recently been frustrated by what are known as CEQA lawsuits, named after the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act that serves as the basis of the challenges. CEQA battles have certainly hindered their fair share of highway and road projects, but they also affect transit and urban infill development, perhaps a perversion of the law’s pro-environmental intent. Skirmishes over the law have yielded mixed results – transit projects were made more vulnerable by a recent ruling, while affordable housing projects are now less prone to CEQA challenges – but there has recently been talk of more major CEQA reform. Continue reading Real CEQA Reform, or Just Another Special Interest Handout? October 4th, 2011 | Tags: California, HSR, transit | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Environment | Comments are closed |
printable viewRemember my response yesterday to Randal O’Toole’s Cato article on parking, when I said that I could easily write a three-part series? Not a joke! (Though I might spare you and leave the trilogy unfinished. Maybe.) Today, I’d like to take on O’Toole’s comments on California, which he argues is too dense and [...] April 9th, 2011 | Tags: California, density, Randal O'Toole | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments |
printable view1. Maps of sprawl and gentrification in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston. At first the picture looks bleak for cities, but Jesus – even downtown Detroit is growing! (More here.) 2. A real, live Texan (just kidding – he lives in Austin) replies to O’Toole on parking. 3. Why aren’t (more) urbanists cheering [...] April 8th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, Boston, California, Chicago, dc, Detroit, Environment, parking, Randal O'Toole, St. Louis, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable view1. Systemic Failure praises Gov. (again) Jerry Brown’s efforts to do away with California’s redevelopment agencies and “enterprise zones” (there’s a euphemism if I’ve ever heard one), which the author claims promote autocentric development with public funds. He then cites a few examples of redevelopment agencies pushing such plans in San Jose. If [...] January 25th, 2011 | Tags: California, Environment, nyc, parking, rent control, Scarano, Toronto | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments |
printable view1. The NYT utterly humiliates itself with a story on how difficult it is for a kid straight outta college from “a prominent Portuguese banking family” to rent a $2,500/mo. studio in a Chelsea coop for less than 12 months. Sounds like the perfect posterchild for Sheldon Silver’s rent control plans. 2. What [...] January 17th, 2011 | Tags: California, nyc, parking, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |
printable viewThe WaPo earlier this week ran an editorial against California high-speed rail, and on Friday ran a response from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. As the dedicated anti-California HSR blog High-Speed Train Talk says, the letter does a pretty good job of summing up everything that’s wrong with the guy. The letter starts off [...] January 15th, 2011 | Tags: California, high speed rail, highways, protectionism, Ray LaHood | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |
printable viewThere are some good articles out there this morning, I want to share them with you… Rationalitate – California developments halted over water While the knee-jerk libertarian reaction might be disgust, I think the markets are probably ruined by the government, and current pricing isn’t what it would be in a market setting. [...] June 9th, 2008 | Tags: California, development, Economics, impact fees, water, water rights | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
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