Friday, December 21, 2012

Who owns the street outside your house, and who gets to park there?

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Parking. It's a dilemma for cities, towns and even hamlets. The more you make accommodations for drivers (that is, most adults) who nee...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Region's planning footprint set to expand

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How sane is transportation planning in the Charlotte region? Depends, I guess, on how you define sane. Plenty of sane people take part i...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Lost in Cary, an American suburb

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I was amused recently by an article about the state's über-suburb, Cary – “Lost in Cary? Officials hope to show the way.”   It seems ...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Rail matters: the South End lesson

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A local television station yesterday did a short feature on the South End neighborhood in Charlotte. If you click here , you'll see my ...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Measuring the value of city development

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How should we measure the return that the city (or the county) gets from different kinds of development? An Asheville developer/planner is ...
Friday, November 9, 2012

What McCrory's win really means

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Tuesday's gubernatorial election was a watershed for North Carolina, but for a reason that's gotten a lot less ink than the Red ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Transit? ‘It’s going to take decades and decades’

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Streetcar in Portland, Ore. Can Charlotte's project find funding? (Photo: David Walters) The big picture may have gotten buried Tue...