Sorry for the light posting lately. I hope to have another “corner” post later in the week which will feature a fun little building.
- A New Urbanism proponent will speak at A Monumental Affair on Thursday. Getting business leaders and the mayor on board with this is an important step. Now, about those zoning laws…..
- Is it time for a “Green New Deal?” I say “yes, and hopefully it’s not coming too late.”
- The Urbanophile’s series on the new airport is killer. Also, check out his new project Naptown Observer.
- A few more choice new blogs have been linked: The Heidelberger Papers, and Locally Grown Gardens.
- Drool. California leads the way on high speed rail.
Actually, the new Regional Center Zoning Ordinance and the accompanying Design Guidelines do a pretty good job of pushing urbanism in the downtown core and the re-developing areas at the margins.
The downtown core should be good to go; however, I’d advocate for elimination of parking requirements.
The regional center guidelines only matter if they are adhered to. It seems that anyone who wants can get a variance if they want it.
The guidelines have only been in effect for a couple of months. It’s probably too soon to tell their effect, and with the recession turning off the spigot of real-estate funding, it will probably be a year or two before there is concrete evidence of how they’re applied.