Charlotte City Council is slated to vote on a nearly 700-page rewrite of the rules that guide development in our fast-growing city, but most of the attention has focused on one controversial aspect: allowing duplexes and triplexes by-right in single-family areas. Yes, but: If approved, the document, known as the Unified Development Ordinance, would regulate […]

The California Dream isn’t quite dead yet.

Counterintuitive though it may feel, sometimes to build a better city, we need to prune things back, rather than adding more.

The proposed Westside Bypass freeway in Washington County had a lot of momentum — until critics said it ran afoul of Oregon's growth management system. The freeway fight in the early 1990s wound up affecting transportation policies throughout the state.

Lessons from Sandpoint, Idaho, the small town that embraced zoning reform to boost economic development and housing production.

Advocates for land-use restrictions to ameliorate urban heat overlook government’s poor record on the matter.

Our newest edition of Dangerous by Design has “design” in its name, but what do we mean when we say that street design is a large factor responsible for this epidemic of deaths?

Streets have been optimised for one thing: traffic. A kind of ‘urban rewilding’ could return them to the complex social ecosystems they once were

An excerpt from the latest book on zoning argues for four approaches to reform that can immediately improve land use regulation in the United States.

The city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan, three environmentalists groups had argued in a lawsuit that.

So why do transportation leaders spend so much time drafting “pedestrian master plans” and “bike master plans” without accompanying “car master plans” aimed at b…

Zoning reform policies that boost economic development, promote housing, and bust the myth that reducing parking spaces hurts businesses.

In our second event in our series "Zoning in Charlottesville," UVA Planning Professor Dr. Andrew Mondschein presented on "The High Cost of Mandatory Parking...

New efforts by federal and state authorities to encourage the construction of housing in walkable and transit-rich communities suggests that many cities’ best chance at progressive zoning ref…

The third and final installment of Planetizen's examination of the role of the planning profession in both perpetuating and solving traffic congestion.

What if any American could tell at a glance how her unique local land use policies influence the way she and her neighbors get around, without having to dig through a mountain of arcane jargon to g…

Daniel Baldwin Hess, University at Buffalo, and Jeffrey Rehler, University at Buffalo For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an

Urban villages can maximize accessibility and inclusivity, helping residents be healthy, wealthy, and happy. Here are specific targets for planning them.

Conversation about land use and building in cities often turns to questions of aesthetics or personal preferences. You find impassioned advocates of various kinds of architecture or lifestyle.

An overview of the benefits of good parking management practices and a collection of resources for communities looking to meet many goals by improving parking management. Curated by Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management program.

When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking, space was freed up for public transit and people.

In 2017, Buffalo, New York, revamped its zoning code to cease requiring a minimum amount of parking for commercial and residential projects.

A developer of a long-considered redevelopment site at 70th Street and France Avenue is requesting a zoning ordinance amendment, which if granted, would allow the developer to install a parking

It doesn't create much new housing and distorts the housing market, providing little if any help for low-income households. It's no substitute for broad liberalization of zoning policies.

New research highlights how city streets that are too wide can take up valuable space that could be used to build more homes.

If we really want to see the rapid development of bus lanes, or a protected bike lane network, or wider sidewalks, or pedestrian plazas, then we must also understand parking needs and manage parkin…

By Chrissy Mancini Nichols Mar 18, 2014 This post first appeared at metroplanning.org Executive summary While I was with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) I analyzed the 2013 Chicago parking meter concession renegotiation and found that the settlement will save the City of Chicago and