Posts tagged with 'Local development'

Chalk up a victory for Minnesota and neighborhood schools

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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Huge, sprawling “mega-schools” built at the edges of town aren’t required by law in Minnesota. But minimum acreage recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education have forced local communities into a one-size-fits-all approach, resulting in new schools that are unwalkable and unconnected to the rest of their communities. On July 1st, this is going to change in Minnesota.

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2008 at the Ballot Box: Continuing the Trend

Friday, December 12th, 2008
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Tweet The results of November’s Presidential election may have represented a change of direction for our country, but at least one trend at the ballot box remained unchanged from the past few elections: Taxpayers across the country again approved a bevy of ballot measures to conserve land, protect farmland, promote smart growth; and expand public [...]

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Community ain’t what it used to be

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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Tweet Quit this blog forthwith and head over to Kaid Benfield’s two part series on his blog at the NRDC Switchboard. (Part one here, part two here) Kaid is an SGA board member, a veteran of the smart growth and environmental movements, and a fellow Southerner (which is why I can join him in saying [...]

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Walkable Greensburg ready for a sustainable future

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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Tweet The hearing before the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence just wrapped up on Capitol Hill a few minutes ago. SGA’s David Goldberg, along with Steve Winkelman of the Center for Clean Air Policy, did a superb job in their testimony before the committee. They made a good case for how [...]

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Well-planned walkable neighborhoods: Insulation from the housing slump

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
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Tweet Another tale of two cities: One is up, one is down. We’ve noted with regularity for the last few months how rising gas prices were complicit in the housing crisis. (here and here, for example). With every escalation in the cost of fuel, new subdivisions and neighborhoods already in a struggling market face another [...]

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Atlanta’s smart growth scorecard

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Tweet Anyone who has attempted to measure the merits of proposed development in their area knows of the difficulties in attaching quantitative values to a proposal. Community opposition or support to a project, based on nothing but emotion or feelings about what may result from that new development, isn’t always productive in achieving desired outcomes. [...]

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