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The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense Details PLANNING WATCH-A reader asked me to review Abundant Housing’s Fair LA housing plan. It contains an elaborate formula, disconnected from the legally required planning process, to up-zone all of Los Angeles, with most up-zoning directed at affluent neighborhoods. If adopted, it would lift the zoning code’s restrictions on density, heig...

Architecture plans for the green park esplanade at the center of the city of Carrollton’s premier project, the forthcoming Trinity Mills Station urban development, were presented to City Council at Tuesday’s meeting. The schematic designs reveal the landscape vision for the open-air park which will serve as the social center to the new development, a lawn for casual enjoyment, and a special event area for concerts and public markets. The new esplanade design will offer a walkable c...

Automobile Dependency: An Unequal Burden Automobile-dependent planning has changed automobiles from a luxury into a necessity. Excessive vehicle costs leave many households without money to purchase essential food, shelter and healthcare. They need more affordable transportation options. Todd Litman | December 15, 2020, 5am PST Share Vic Hinterlang Entertainer Will Rogers once noted that, "The United States is the only country ever to go to the poorhouse in an automobile." This has become tr...

FTA Awards $6.2MM in TOD Grants Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor Arizona’s Phoenix Public Transit Department will receive $1 million from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for transit-oriented development (TOD) planning at three stations of the proposed 1.6-mile Northwest Extension Phase II Light Rail project (station rendering above). Nine projects—seven rail-specific—will share $6.2 million in Federal Transit Administr...