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Tenement Housing for H Street?
ByRoy
A lousy project has been proposed for North H Street between 1st and 2nd street. 8 barracks like boxes each containing 5 bedrooms with 5 attached bathrooms. How many people do you think will be living in each box? I submit that number will vary between 10 and 20 or more per property – and…
9 WAYS TO CHANGE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL’S MIND
ByRoy
Land use, zoning, and economic development policy are set by the Oxnard City Council. If we seek to change the way the City does business, land use, planning, zoning, economic development, and more… ~ we must influence the Oxnard City Council, for they are the ultimate policy and decision makers. Influencing the Oxnard City Council is…
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Housing and Oxnard
ByRoy
Oxnard has a severe housing shortage. Earlier this year SB 827 attempted to help communities build more housing. If the direction of SB 827 is correct the “fixes” relate mostly to zoning that incentives sprawl and makes it almost impossible to build in city cores. I will not go into the failure of SB 827…
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Gentle density: Making neighborhoods transit-ready
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A recently built accessory dwelling in a new urban subdivision in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Source: Mission Heights development. ROBERT STEUTEVILLE AUG. 30, 2018 Fayetteville, Arkansas, is a rapidly growing city—the largest in Northwest Arkansas, a region with major corporate headquarters including Walmart, and a major research university in the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville is a low-density city…
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Kick The Tires On Your Local Zoning Code
ByRoy
MARCH 21, 2018, BY SARAH KOBOS One of the great mysteries of my adult life has been trying to understand why nobody builds lovely places anymore. How hard can it be? Our ancestors built amazing cities with little more than horses, hand tools, and human muscle. Who doesn’t love old places? (Photo by Sarah Kobos) But with…
Oxnard Community College District
ByRoy
Oxnard Community College District Sounds great, doesn’t it. The VCCCD is building a beautiful new Ventura campus like gangbusters – yet our style conscious Oxnard youth are being shortchanged with an unappealing campus and limited class offerings. WHY? There are many more Oxnard CC students than in any other part of the county – yet the technical…