Welcome to this week’s Smart Growth Roundup! This week we share quite a bit of interesting local news from around the state. As always, we welcome your suggestions for future Roundups. Local/Regional The pressure on parking in NYC Adirondack […]
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Each week Empire State Future scans the state for land use and development news, from the best-of-the-best to the worst-of-the-worst. We also pick up a few particularly interesting stories from the nation and world. These weekly Smart Growth Roundups are […]
continue reading(January 6, 2012) In his State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo shared his plan to invest $15 billion in the state’s sagging infrastructure , to include roads, bridges, water infrastructure, parks, and flood control projects. But transit advocates […]
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(January 9) Nyack News and Views shares a recent post on the blog Pedestrian Observations that explains in great detail how restoring service to rail lines traversing Rockland, Orange, and Bergen (N.J.) Counties can decrease dependency and traffic on the […]
continue reading(December 25, 2011) The Director of the New York Alliance for Clean Energy suggests ways to make wind power achieve economic and environmental benefits without running roughshod over local communities and their ecologies. Read Carole Murphy’s editorial in the Albany […]
continue reading(December 25, 2011) The St. Louis Beacon printed a provocative guest essay on the importance of–and ominous, oblivious attitudes towards–our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. Read the guest essay in the St. Louis Beacon […]
continue reading(December 15, 2011) Last month, Congress did away with the Housing and Community Development’s Sustainable Communities Program. An Obama initiative to support communities’ efforts towards smart growth and sustainable development, it was axed in the House of Representatives. In his […]
continue reading(December 14, 2011) John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism and Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004, explains in Atlantic Cities why traffic congestion is actually a good thing. The Case for Congestion in […]
continue reading(December 15, 2011) David Goldstein of the Natural Resources Defense Council (one of ESF’s Coalition members) has posted an important blog. It explains how the location inefficiency of much of the country’s housing was a key but under-attended factor in […]
continue readingBy Peter B. Fleischer, Executive Director (November 29, 2011) I have been listening to the Regional Council presentations over the web. It is a fascinating and innovative way to seek economic development. That said, I do not envy the committee’s […]
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