land use planning

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• Savannah’s Abercorn Street Extension is “Dangerous by Design”

  
  Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) — Authority: 114
  News reports from the Nov. 17 death of a man, who was attempting to cross Abercorn Street Extension, have included a familiar reminder issued by the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, which and automatically echoed in by local media in similar reports: “Pedestrians should use crosswalks.” The ...
  1 week ago

• Streamline land use code revision process

  
  Salida Citizen — Authority: 135
  Ann Marie Swan recently wrote a very comprehensive story about the new land use code committee. It provides a terrific overview of a rather complex issue. For me, her story raises the question of why? Why is there yet another committee of citizen laymen charged with something that seems better handled by ...
  1 week ago

• Response to Judicial Review of Wolverhampton City Council’s decision to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice

  
  What's new at HSE — Authority: 145
  HSE statement about the judgement that Wolverhampton Council failed to notify the HSE that it was minded to grant planning permission, and it failed to notify the HSE that it had granted planning permission against advice. View HSE statement on Judicial Review
  2 weeks ago

• Spinning the Dials

  
  The Overhead Wire — Authority: 466
  The state is stepping forward to do scenario plans for the State of California. It will be interesting to see what the wizards over at Calthorpe associates can put together . Theyve done similar work for Salt Lake City , Austin , and Portland . But I dont think anyone has seen it done at this level before. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maryland Planning Commissioners Annual Conference

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 537
  ... being held today and tomorrow, is yet another example of a program (click here for the draft program ) that could and should occur in DC. Many states have similar kinds of capacity building programs, including the Massachusetts Citizen Planner Training Collaborative . I have argued that most of DCs Advisory ...
  4 weeks ago

• Changing a road that divides the city into an amenity that unites it

  
  Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) — Authority: 114
  When a street is designed to maximize the speed of motor vehicles, the results are as predictable as they are ugly. Yet we may not comprehend how desolate the built environment becomes when it is given over exclusively to cars. Cars and trucks become a distraction, drawing our attention away from the ways that they ...
  4 weeks ago

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