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Change
Change. Today, I share with you, that I am no longer a member of – and am fully independent of – the Oxnard Community Planning Group. I wish the Planning Group only the very best in all future work. I founded the Oxnard Community Planning Group in early 2015, along with a few other members….
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The Issue for Boomers Won’t be ‘Aging in Place’
The real question will be, ‘How do I get out of this place?’ LLOYD ALTER August 13, 2018, 12:58 p.m. You can only do this for so long. (Photo: Mick Tinbergen via Wikipedia) The oldest baby boomers have just turned 70, and most can drive to their birthday parties. They’re being followed by 70…
Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) | Affordable Housing | Complete Streets | Design | Design Guidelines | Economic Development | Form-Based Codes | Housing | Human Scale | Lean Urbanism | Missing Middle | Mixed Use | New Urbanism | Open Space | Parking | Parks | Placemaking | Planning | Plazas | Public Realm | Revitalize Downtown | Roy's Blog | Smart Growth | Sprawl | Street | Suburban Retrofit | Walkability | Zoning
Twelve Steps of Sprawl Recovery
Image courtesy of the Village of Providence Twelve steps of sprawl recovery In communities across America sprawl is giving way to more diverse places. Here are a dozen keys to that trend. STEVE MOUZON FEB. 13, 2018 The storm clouds of sprawl addiction had been gathering for years, but it took the Meltdown and the ensuing…
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Renovating a Multipurpose Main Street
Greenville Avenue’s new streetscape (Source: City of Dallas) Streetscape improvements have helped bring back an 18-hour-a-day character to the corridor. Crime has dropped and property values have risen. Note: This case study was written for the Institute for Transportation Engineers new bookImplementing Context Sensitive Design on Multimodal Thoroughfares, funded by the Federal Highway Administration….
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Do not Forget Oxnard Boulevard
Oxnard Boulevard is key to downtown revitalization success. We must not forget Oxnard Boulevard. Oxnard City revitalization must not ignore Oxnard Boulevard and only concentrate on the areas around Plaza Park. I strongly feel that only when Oxnard revitalizes Oxnard Boulevard, will Oxnard’s downtown come fully alive: Remove the medians from 3rd (where Oxnard Blvd widens going south)…
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The Black Lives Next Door
A new generation of activists is trying to figure out where to concentrate its efforts. Residential desegregation is the final frontier.