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2018’s Greatest Hits (and misses)
Because it’s New Year’s Eve, it must be time to review 2018, right? What I Read in 2018 Although my favorite novel of the year was Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, I’m having a huge amount of fun with The Art of … Continue reading
Posted in Land use, Taxes, Transportation
Tagged Division Street, economic development, featured, land use, Urban3
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Development pattern productivity, continued
“No additional financial impacts are anticipated,” claims the staff report accompanying proposed revisions to Northfield’s nightmare land development regulations. Yet the proposed changes will change zoning around Northfield’s downtown to make lower density, less compact development the default pattern and … Continue reading
Happy New Year from Finland
Hyvää Uutta Vuotta from Jyvaskyla, Finland where I’ll be spending the next 6 months or so. Jyvaskyla has about 135,000 people (like Northfield, about 25% of those are students) on about 52 sq. miles in Central Finland. For landscape, think northern … Continue reading
Dear Senator Dahle
With the power shift in the state legislature, I’m looking forward to the legislative session with a teeny tiny bit of hope and a whole lot of apprehension. My apprehension level rose precipitously yesterday when I read my new state … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Economic development, Land use, Policy problems, Taxes, Transportation
Tagged Citizens League, Kevin Dahle, land use
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More about development economics and history
I’ve been cleaning out my office at the end of my Council term. In addition to recycling mountains of paper and gaining a great deal more storage space, I’ve been pleased to discover that my personal policy development has been … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Land use, Policy problems, Transportation
Tagged infrastructure, Joe the Planner, land use, sprawl, Urbanophile
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End of the road
I really don’t know how I missed this one, but in 2009 Virginia enacted a law which doesn’t quite ban cul-de-sacs, but makes state funding for street maintenance and services contingent on not building any more of them. I really … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Land use, Non-motorized transportation
Tagged infrastructure, land use
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User-friendly planning and development regulations
Facilitating frictionless economic development certainly got my attention. Consider this statement: Imagine you are trying to figure out how to apply for a permit for your new (or existing) business, and you land upon a maze of forms and requirements. … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Land use, Policy problems
Tagged economic development, Land Development Code, land use
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Hospital study
Why study the hospital/city relationship at all since this is obviously an emotionally charged issue? The city needs to ask tough, even painful, questions because it has real, structural budget issues which cannot be solved by a few cuts or … Continue reading
IKEA as urban planner
As an about-to-get married 20-something, I was glad IKEA opened its first US store in King of Prussia, PA, a short drive from my Philadelphia apartment. We’ve been married 25 years and are still using the IKEA shelves we bought … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Land use, Policy problems
Tagged IKEA, land use, redevelopment
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Northfield’s greenbelt
“How to protect America’s countryside from sprawl” got my attention because of the word countryside – a very British term – and because it’s not the rural side of the boundary which gets the attention, usually, but the development pattern … Continue reading
Posted in Economic development, Land use, Policy problems
Tagged Comprehensive Plan, greenbelts, land use, value of open space
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