The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

The shortage of housing at all price points in the region is the main driver of high costs and the growing homelessness crisis.

January 4 - Los Angeles Times

Advocates say incentivizing e-bikes is a quick and effective way to reduce carbon emissions and shift U.S. transportation priorities away from car-oriented planning.

January 4 - NPR

Tribal communities threatened by climate change are opting to relocate or engage in ‘managed retreat’ to save their villages from sea level rise, erosion, flooding, and other climate impacts.

January 4 - The Daily Yonder

The city’s restaurants are bouncing back faster than other industries, providing a key source of jobs.

January 4 - Urban Edge

Based on an index comparing inbound and outbound moving truck rentals, Texas had the largest population growth in the United States in 2021, while California and Illinois saw the biggest losses.

January 4 - U-Haul International

The legislation requires cars to keep four feet away from cyclists and other “vulnerable” road users and eases the process for lowering speed limits on state-owned roads.

January 4 - The Boston Globe

2022 was full of historic legislative accomplishments on climate policy. 2023 is unlikely to achieve the same significance, though the changing climate demands more of the same.

January 4 - The Washington Post

The city hopes reducing speed limits will help them achieve their Vision Zero pledge.

January 3 - King 5 News

Los Angeles Director of Planning Vince Bertoni was recently interviewed the effects of new state planning and housing laws in the state’s most populous city.

January 3 - The Planning Report

The city wants to drastically reduce carbon emissions, but bike advocates argue it has not done enough to make biking and walking in the city safer and more convenient.

January 3 - San Diego Magazine

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Some commentators defend exclusionary suburban zoning on the ground that it makes affluent suburbanites more willing to pay for public services. But does exclusion create losers?

January 3 - Michael Lewyn

California's population continued to shrink for a third consecutive year according to the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates for the year ending July 2022, but business columnist Jonathan Lansner saw glimmers of hope in the data.

January 3 - The Mercury News

Texas Transportation Commissioners must have a hangover—backing off its highway building ambitions just a few months after approving the $85 billion Unified Transportation Plan in August 2022.

January 3 - Houston Chronicle

A Black-led, family-owned company is bringing e-bikes to the Ohio town.

January 3 - Next City

The U.S. Census Bureau raised the bar for communities to qualify as urban areas.

January 3 - U.S. Census Bureau

Advocates hope to enlist the federal government in forcing state regulators to set clean water standards for the San Francisco Bay Delta.

January 2 - Stocktonia

The years-long permitting process for new transmission lines is slowing the state’s shift to clean energy.

January 2 - Governing

A luxury apartment building acquired by the Washington Housing Conservancy will be converted into 212 rent-stabilized housing units for middle-income workers.

January 2 - WTOP

With an aging workforce and few new workers entering the sector, cities could find themselves short of the workers needed to build and maintain projects funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

January 2 - Route Fifty

Seventeen transportation experts and professionals weigh in on what they think trends in the sector will look like in 2023.

January 1 - The Verge