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Boulder decision: No more housing on Uni Hill, except affordable units
Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)March 04--Developers will not be able to build housing in the University Hill commercial district u...
Pipeline opponents fear legislative 'tax increase' for project
Deseret News (UT)SALT LAKE CITY - A bill unveiled this week that proposes to raise taxes to fund two water developme...
Report On 'Congestion' Tolls Expected To Heat Up Connecticut Debate
Hartford Courant (CT)March 04--HARTFORD -- Highway toll advocates and opponents are bracing for a public relations battl...
Unspectacular work marks first high-speed rail construction
Fresno Bee, The (CA)March 04--Getting started --A storm-drain line is among the utilities being re-routed in downtown F...
Miami-Dade commissioner backs off plan to declare rare rockland blighted
Miami Herald (FL)March 04--A fragment of rare pine rockland is not a slum -- for the time being, anyway. Miami-Dade ...
Finalists named in lakefront redesign project
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)March 03--Nothing says Milwaukee like the lakefront, the place where the urban fabric meets a curve...
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Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans (PAS 578)
Learn the steps and standards for putting sustainability in its place — at the heart of the long-range plan — in the latest PAS Report to come out of APA's Sustaining Places Initiative. Share experiences from big cities and small towns, plus real-world ideas for meeting the greatest planning challenge of our time. This report is not a recipe. It's a resource with principles, processes, and pointers communities can use to forge their own solutions.
Planning Atlanta
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. They probe the city's economic and environmental growing pains. And they look toward new plans that will shape Atlanta's next incarnation.