Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Urban Planning

Planning Experts Call for an Overhaul of NYC Zoning Rules

By Noah Kazis | Oct 18, 2011 | 4 Comments

New York City’s zoning regulation turns 50 this year. Though the zoning ordinance has been amended extensively over the last half-century, land use in New York is still governed under a basic framework established under Mayor Robert Wagner. In a panel discussion held last Friday by the Municipal Art Society, experts put forward a vision […]

Department of City Planning Continues to Restrict Development Near Transit

By Noah Kazis | Jul 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Department of City Planning’s commitment to rezoning the city along more transit-oriented lines is a critical component of its sustainability agenda. Allowing more people to live and work next to transit means more people will ride transit and fewer will drive. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, upzonings have indeed […]

In Defense of the Corner Market

By Angie Schmitt | May 10, 2011 | No Comments

Much has been made of the food desert phenomenon afflicting the industrial Midwest. GOOD Magazine, Dateline, NBC and countless others have weighed in on the apparent market failure that causes grocery stores to shun cities like Detroit and Cleveland like a bad case of head lice. This whole storyline reached a fever pitch earlier this […]

PlaNYC 2.0 Hints at Parking Reform, Touts Bike-Share, Lacks Transpo Focus

By Noah Kazis | Apr 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

Four years after Michael Bloomberg launched New York City’s sustainability agenda with congestion pricing as the marquee item, transportation reform is no longer the centerpiece of PlaNYC. The first in what should be a series of regular four-year updates of the plan was released this morning, and it includes 132 initiatives. While those encompass significant […]

$100 Million for HUD Sustainability Program Survives in This Year’s Budget

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 18, 2011 | No Comments

With multiple versions of two years’ worth of federal budgets flying around, some details are still emerging about what’s in and what’s out. At the end of last week we heard that the FY2011 budget, which has been sent to the president for his signature, includes $100 million for the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. According […]

NACTO: Feds Already Greenlighting Bikeway Design Innovations

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2011 | No Comments

The National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Bikeway Design Guide was 20 years in the making, and already it’s having an impact, says the organization’s Mia Birk. Bringing together transportation officials from 20 major cities to discuss progress on bikeway designs in the U.S. produced quite a few “aha moments,” said Birk. For one, […]

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