Muskegon’s supply-side reforms designed to ease home price inflation

The city is (finally) exploring ways to reduce or minimize the impact parking requirements have on homes and businesses.

Building 2500 parking spots for a new spa is a problem in more ways than one.

The recent literature on parking and automobility suggests that most of our current strategies work better for cars than cities.

'The only opposition usually comes from homeowners who fear the spillover of drivers parking on their residential streets,' says columnist

I love suburbs now, it's over.

The city doesn’t require multifamily developers to include fitness rooms, swimming pools or resident lounges in their buildings. But it does require them to include parking. Am I comparing apples to oranges? I think not. These amenities enhance quality of life for the people who use them but also make housing more expensive. For some […]

Let's start with parking requirements for new developments.

With most of the community board recommendations in, Streetsblog mapped where residents are saying "yes" to more housing and less parking.

Road space at the curb is a valuable public asset – and must be recognized as such. It doesn’t belong to cars

Anna Zivarts is a low-vision non-driver, a mom, and an advocate for transportation, housing affordability, and disability mobility rights. She was born with the neurological condition nystagmus — which, for her, means that she doesn’t drive. She gets around her city of Seattle mostly by foot, bike, and transit. She’s not alone; fully one third ... Read more

The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize denser housing to solve the country's home shortage.

Since the 1990s, Fairfax County planners have imagined turning Tysons into “a place where people want to be.” How’s that going? Let’s look at the state of walkability and bikeability in Tysons, and how to make it better.

Local governments that follow a “mindlessly pro-business” approach sacrifice community well-being in the name of commerce, but end up devastating their cities’ downtowns by misunderstanding what helps an area succeed economically. It’s time to realize that helping local businesses means helping the

These micro wastelands drain the life from cities. It’s time we imagine better.