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November 11, 2010 By Stephen Smith

1. An bill that would replace New Jersey's court-mandated patchwork of inclusionary zoning programs with a more uniform 10% affordable housing mandate has left advanced through its Assembly committee after passing the NJ Senate, though Chris Christie promised to veto it. 2. Last month I reported … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: inclusionary zoning, Jane Jacobs, mortgage interest deduction, New Jersey, nyc, parking

DC parking minimums to “disappear in most cases”

November 11, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Last month, Eric Fidler of Greater Greater Washington left a tantalizing comment suggesting that DC was going to do away with its minimum parking requirements soon. Obviously this would be very big news and a welcome change for market urbanists, and it looks like it might indeed pan out. On Monday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, parking

This is why DC can’t have nice things

November 9, 2010 By Stephen Smith

With the District of Columbia's height restriction entering its 100th year, Lydia DePillis from the Washington City Paper explains why downtown DC is all superblocks with so little natural light: While reading about the new Safeway-anchored residential development just approved in Wheaton, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, density

Another week, another consolation link list

November 9, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Another week without posts (from me, at least), another giant consolation link list! I've got a lot of them piling up and probably won't be back to regular posting for a few more days, so I'll try to spread them out over a few posts. 1. Wendell Cox's Demographia came out with its 2010 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay Area, Environment, India, terrorism, Wendell Cox

Your consolation link list

November 2, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Apologies to everyone for the light posting – over the next few weeks I may be a bit busy with job and internship applications (any suggestions for work or job offers would be very much appreciated!), but hopefully I'll still be able to put up a few posts a week. But for now, all you get is this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: conservatism, disability, gentrification, Los Angeles, nyc, parking, portland, Randal O'Toole, Southeast Asia, transit-oriented development, Vancouver

Matt Yglesias’ proposal for reforming DC’s ANC’s

October 28, 2010 By Stephen Smith

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dc, Donald Shoup, Matt Yglesias, parking

Mortgage-interest tax deduction cuts on the table

October 27, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Urbanism 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: mortgage interest deduction, taxes

Matt Yglesias attacks parking maximums, outs himself as a market urbanist

October 26, 2010 By Stephen Smith

Matt 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, smart growth, taxes

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