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Complete Streets bills now in House and Senate
As American families continue to feel the pain at the pump due to the skyrocketing costs of gasoline, they are driving less and less. By diversifying our roadways, we can provide real alternatives to travel by car,” said Rep. Matsui. ...
Are the terms of the discussion beginning to shift?
Therefore, we need to invest in a pattern of growth that actually results in less driving, without having to rely on restrictions or regulations for force people “out of their cars.” People who live in more compact, ...
SGA’s David Goldberg on “the changing face of America”
SGA communications director David Goldberg appeared on KGO in the San Francisco Bay Area last night, discussing how America is fundamentally changing in light of rising gas prices — as well as a plethora of other factors and trends all ...
Nancy Pelosi and RPA on rebuilding America’s infrastructure
Now we must address total ‘vehicle miles traveled’ which are growing at 2.5 times the rate of population growth. Our infrastructure choices will help determine whether people can choose alternatives to driving their cars. ...
Gov. Parris Glendening at the EcoCity World Summit
Gov. Glendening recently gave a keynote address at the EcoCity World Summit a few weeks ago in San Francisco. The EcoCity World Summit is one of the most exciting, innovative events in discussion solutions for making our towns and ...
Gas prices: Strategies for easing the pain
In this entry from Greater Greater Washington — one of my daily must-reads here about DC growth and urbanism issues — he digs up a 12-year-old op-ed from Russell Baker in the New York Times about the pain of rising gas prices. ...
James Kunstler on Stephen Colbert
Colbert: “I have no oil dilemma. I go to the gas station, I pay money, they put gas in my car. What’s the dilemma?” Kunstler: “You’re probably one of these people who thinks that the world has a creamy nougat center of oil, ...
Can toll roads keep America moving?
While New York City has been in the news lately for their plan to implement congestion pricing in Manhattan, what you don’t know about the experiment may surprise you. It wasn’t just the brainchild of a progressive city government ...
Gas tax “scam” petition
Eliminating the federal gas tax all summer would only save American consumers about 30 dollars, send more money overseas, reduce our ability to invest in infrastructure, and encourage even more driving and pollution contributing to ...
Chambering a round against future commerce
Donohue is engaged in reckless endangerment for the future prospects of America, Americans, and the rest of humanity. He is balancing this against perceived interests of major membership in the coming quarter, in the coming few years. ...
Cities Deliver an Energy Smackdown! and More State Climate News
Also, Smart Growth America's Steve Davis, responding to a quote in Eilperin's piece from California AG Jerry Brown, waxes optimistic that the real estate market is beginning to shift in favor of more walkable, lower-emitting "places ...
Can Sprawl be Green?
In my post of May 6th, “Traditional Neighborhood Development and LEED Go Hand in Hand,” I made the point that smart growth and new urbanism are helping give a ‘boost’ to green building practices. While conducting research for that ...
"Gas tax holiday roundup" Smart Growth Around America
...A proposal that sounds noble and caring in soundbyte form, will not only result in relatively small relief at the pump, but most importantly, it will cut off funding to the Highway Trust Fund and infrastructure funding for 15 weeks, ...
Help Dan save traffic.
Dan loves traffic. “It’s about the journey, and this way, the journey takes forever,” he says. “In 2009, Congress will decide whether to continue to spend billions on highways and roads to generate more traffic. Or whether they’re going ...
CEOs for Cities report: “Driven to the brink”
They go a step further in the report “Driven to the Brink: How the Gas Price Spike Popped the Housing Bubble and Devalued the Suburbs” by claiming that gas prices have not only slowed down exurban housing growth and affected values, ...
Gas tax holiday roundup
The Huffington Post tried to find an economic expert or policy wonk who could say that this was a smart policy. After failing to find one, the HP concluded, and her campaign told them, that “she doesn’t need to listen to the experts.” ...
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials opposes “this ‘rob Peter to pay Paul’ strategy,” adding, “it will only serve to delay by one year the necessity to act to ensure sufficient revenue to the Highway ...
Smart Growth America
"Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national ...
Climate Change: The Moral Imperative for Smart Growth
This book makes the case their decisions will play a critical role in our effort to combat global warming. > ULI: Growing Cooler > Smart Growth America: Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change.
Measuring the true cost of housing: location, location, location
It’s not just gas prices that make transportation expensive… Yesterday, The Center for Neighborhood Technology, an SGA coalition member, along with the Brookings Institution, released a new web-based tool to measure housing ...
Climate impact considered in Maine megaproject
When a timber company proposed a new development on a lake in central Maine that would clear 14000 acres of forest to build roughly 2300 homes, forward-looking leaders in Maine questioned the wisdom of a mega-project on pristine ...
10 ways to combat asthma (in honor of Asthma Awareness Month and ...
The Smart Growth America website notes that. People in sprawling metro areas must cope with the dispersed pollutants associated with increased automobile use. Road transportation is a major contributor to the formation of ozone, ...
Real estate: Time to update the conventional wisdom
…Another study posits that if every American spent 30 minutes a day walking or cycling instead of driving, we would collectively cut carbon emissions by 64 million tons and shed more than three billion pounds of excess flab. ...
Why Eminent Domain Is Pro-American
... finding equivalent housing, providing more than simply just compensation and other necessities such as counseling, transportation, and moving expenses. If government works to promote smart growth and works for the people we all win. ...
this week’s RDN calendar
Smart Growth in Richmond. Mon May 5 6:30 pm @ GlobeHopper Back Porch Conversations at GlobeHopper - Open issue-based dialogue. This week: Suburbia has become part of the American Dream promising space, affordability, and family life. ...
Gas tax “scam” petition
(Via Smart Growth Around America.) Gas tax “scam” petition:. If you, like a majority of Americans, think that any proposal to suspend the gas tax is a bad idea — bad for the environment, bad for our infrastructure, ...
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Kunstler’s predictions in BusinessWeek
Whether Kunstler’s picture of America becomes the future or not, rising fuel prices and the corresponding effect on the suburban housing market are certainly reinforcing the urgency of continued investment in smartly-located, ...
But can “we” solve it without addressing where we live?
BeyondDC, while like us hopeful for the success of the campaign, also expressed their disappointment in the lack of mentions for smarter growth, walkable neighborhoods, public transit, or related options in an open letter to Al Gore: ...
“Marketplace” on the economy deterring sprawl
American Public Radio’s Marketplace this morning featured a very brief snippet on Growing Cooler and how the economic downturn and rising energy costs have altered the dynamics of the housing market. As the similar story on NPR showed ...
Civic pride: Franklin provides example of terrible street design ...
UPDATE: The Smart Growth America people were nice enough to update the photo caption on their site; now the whole world is aware that it's indeed Franklin, Wisconsin that makes its most vulnerable citizens walk a ditch and brush against ...
Governors honored for their work in creating Institute
... six states for sitting Governors and their cabinets, bringing in a knowledgeable team of experts and former Governors to provide invaluable advice on the growth, development and transportation issues selected by the administration. ...
Making it Happen: Sustainable Smart Growth
I must admit that I was surprised that BC is the only province of Canada to have a SmartGrowth chapter. Perhaps that reflects our view that we are not American so we cannot join an organisation called “Smart Growth America”. ...
Beyond the Border of Reason
The only smart growth is no growth. Remember Isaiah 5:8: "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the Earth." .... [T]he Oregon we love is like ...
Geoff Anderson Takes Helm at Smart Growth America
Don Chen, the very sharp founding executive director of Smart Growth America, announced late last year that he was taking a position with the Ford Foundation. Interesting move for a canny advocate and non-profit executive with the sort ...
Gas prices’ effect on the housing market
High gas prices are squeezing the housing market on the fringes of metro regions. It can be scary to turn on CNBC or CNNMoney these days. Watch for just a minute or two, and you’re likely to hear that not only is the housing market in ...
Get involved in federal policy
(2) Protecting EPA’s Smart Growth program. The EPA’s small Smart Growth program has helped countless communities strengthen their economies, protect their environment, and improve public health. In the last ten years, the Smart Growth ...
Atlanta’s smart growth scorecard
From their release: “The Coalition’s Smart Growth Scorecard uses teams of volunteer experts to rate proposed developments from poor to excellent on as many as 50 separate criteria in eight categories: location and availability of basic ...
600000 people over age 70 stop driving every year
As we’ve noted frequently, seismic demographic shifts are underway as America races towards 400 million in population. One of them is an approaching “senior tsunami,” with nearly 1 in 5 Americans expected to be over age 65 by the year ...
NATIONAL: More Communities Turning Vacant Tracts Into Urban Parks
... Central Park in Manhattan, reports USA Today writer Haya El Nasser, quoting Smart Growth America Communication Director David Goldberg, who said, "This desire for parkland and capitalizing on natural assets is really taking hold."
Monday nights at GlobeHopper
Monday, May 5 Smart Growth in Richmond. Suburbia has become part of the American Dream promising space, affordability, and family life. Over the past fifty years suburban life has exploded putting increasing demands on transportation ...
Complete Streets bill introduced in the Senate
Those of you who participated in the First Annual Smart Growth Advocacy Day in conjunction with the New Partners Conference back in February may remember lobbying your representatives on behalf of this bill. ...
National Commission Report Shows Federal Transportation Program is ...
“The system is broke, but it’s also broken,” said Don Chen, executive director of Smart Growth America. “The American people want to be assured that their hard-earned money is building bridges that stand, not merely bridges to nowhere.” ...
The Bush budget proposal: Leadership deferred
If you would like to take action, urge your Congressional members to prevent cuts in funding for these important programs, and to increase funding for the EPA Smart Growth program, level-funded for several years, to $7 million. ...
Review of TVO's The Agenda May 5, 2008 Population Episode
Jeb didn't use the term "smart growth", but he implied it by denouncing population control measures as immoral and at the same time pushing for "densification" or moving rural and suburban people into highrise apartments where he feels ...
An Interview with the New President of Smart Growth America
Planetizen talks with Geoff Anderson, the new president and CEO of Smart Growth America. read more.
Smart Growth
An interesting article about smart growth and the mortgage crisis faults excessive land use regulation in certain markets in particular, for making the recent financial crisis even worse. Called smart growth the land use and regulation ...
Eliminating the gas tax?
The amount of money motorists would save would do little to stimulate economic growth, and revenue from the gas tax is much needed for road repairs, said Kloza, chief oil analyst at research firm Oil Price Information Service. ...
National smart growth conference: Something’s in the air
The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference — the annual gathering of local officials, community activists, policy wonks, advocates, and regular people who simply care about how their communities grow — is always stimulating, ...
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