The NIMBY 5th Column: Planners in Local Government
At this point in my career I have learned, implemented, and written sections of a number of zoning codes in a few different...
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yorro
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
The Problem with Minimum Bike Parking Requirements
Parking minimums of any kinds are problematic when based off of some ostensible causal relationship with land use. Bike parking minimums...
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yorro
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Failures of The Misobserver
Are a bunch of cars in the driveway of a single family home a manifestation of a strong preference for motor vehicles, or an indicator of...
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yorro
- Oct 6, 2021
- 3 min
Taking On Your Local DOT
Anyone who has ever been involved with or given comment on any sort of road expansion project knows that departments of transportation...
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yorro
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Myth of the "Affordable" Tear-Down
It shouldn't need to be said, but if an old single family dwelling gets torn down and replaced with something newer or bigger, it...
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yorro
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
Why Is the US Transportation System So Bad? Clues from 1968
The planners' desk reference from the 1960s reveals the early missteps that led to the automobile-centered built environment of today. It...
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yorro
- Sep 10, 2020
- 8 min
Boise Boomtown: Missing the Bigger Picture
Boise decision makers scratching their heads about how to get more housing. When it comes to meaningful land use reform and better...
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yorro
- Aug 20, 2020
- 4 min
Parking Minimums: The Only Truly Effective Form of Inclusionary Zoning
Substitute "parking spot" for "housing unit" and these two policies are essentially the same. I work in housing, and I am generally...
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yorro
- Aug 5, 2020
- 7 min
The Presence of Transit Doesn't Make Driving Not Convenient
The concept of Transit Oriented Development (TOD), relies on the thinking that if you build enough housing/retail/whatever close to...
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yorro
- Jun 23, 2020
- 6 min
How The System Suffocates The Natural Production of Housing
People are always trying to build more housing, but it's the system of zoning, land use rules, and complaints from nearby residents with...
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delorme
- Jun 18, 2020
- 5 min
Individualist Auto Culture: Gaps at the Heart of Autonomous Vehicle Safety
The technological and regulatory basis for autonomous vehicle (AV) development will cement modern-day automobile individualism into our...
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pugsley
- Jun 15, 2020
- 4 min
Walmart--a metric for walkability?
Policy makers who say "our residents won't walk that far" may be missing the fact that many of their constituents regularly do. Las...
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yorro
- Jun 5, 2020
- 8 min
Homeownership & Disparities in Wealth
If anyone is serious about the racial wealth gap, the only way to fix it is by sharing wealth directly. Say a guy goes to prison for 50...
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yorro
- May 29, 2020
- 4 min
Snout Houses Aren't The Problem
Urbanists of all types love to hate on snout houses, but the solutions proposed by most zoning codes (and discussions of the problem...
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yorro
- May 26, 2020
- 11 min
Trip Generation is Nonsense
In the late 1840s, a physician named Ignaz Semmelweis was working in the maternity ward of Vienna’s general hospital when he noticed that...
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yorro
- May 26, 2020
- 3 min
Why a New American Planning?
Urban planning is a fascinating field, except when you have to deal with it at the local level. But it's not even the planners that are...
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