“Form-based zoning” is something that I’ve never entirely understood. It’s always explained to me as regulating form not use, and generally the example given is that form-based zoning will require certain design aesthetics but not dictate whether something is used as a residence or a place of business or whatever. And instead of [...]
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May 15th, 2011 | Tags: Miami, New Urbanism, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments |
 printable viewVancouver holds a special place in most urbanists’ heart – a sort of supercharged version of Portland, with its stunning skyline and bold embrace of density and transit. In addition to the glassy forest of skyscrapers, it also passed a law enabling laneway housing under former mayor Sam Sullivan’s EcoDensity initiative. Sullivan was [...] May 9th, 2011 | Tags: density, EcoDensity, laneway housing, parking, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
printable view1. NY Governor Cuomo promises the “most aggressive” strengthening of the state’s (read: NYC’s) rent laws. 2. Bronx <3 parking: “This community wants a moratorium on any more building until we get a parking lot.” “We don’t want any bigger buildings and we want parking space for everyone.” 3. Do people realize that “I [...] April 29th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, nyc, parking | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewStreetsblog NYC has been doing an excellent job of hounding the city on its lack of action on parking reforms, but this article with developer Alan Bell talking about his experience with parking minimums in the city is, I think, the best so far. Here’s an excerpt: Hudson might have built more housing [...] 1. NYT reports on dense suburban projects being scaled back across Long Island not because of financing constraints or the recession, but because local governments are refusing to accept the density. At the end it cites AvalonBay as saying that after the its rebuke on the Island, it will reconsider “whether we would [...] April 25th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, dc, nyc, parking, transit, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 6 comments |
printable view1. PlaNYC 2.0 may try to tackle off-street minimum parking requirements for new development, though Transportation Alternatives and Tri-State Transportation Campaign are skeptical. 2. The TLC has been cracking down on illegal livery cab street hails as the Bloomberg administration considers allowing the black cars to pick people up off the street in [...] April 22nd, 2011 | Tags: dc, historic preservation, nyc, parking, taxis | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments |
printable view1. Austin Contrarian comes out in favor of a Republican proposal to lower bus drivers’ wages. I wish more liberal urbanists (i.e., urbanists) would comment on issues like these. I don’t see (m)any of them vociferously defending transit labor unions, but I also don’t see them criticizing them for making transit more costly and [...] April 14th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, dc, food, LA, links, nyc, parking, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 3 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 |
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