The End of the Strip?
…and public officials have tried to contain, control, and improve the strip. Now they are getting some help from an unexpected quarter: consumers and the marketplace. Today the era of strip development is coming to…
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Controlling Strip Development
…strip development. Strip development is contrary to the basic elements of good planning: it consumes open space and depletes natural resources, impedes pedestrian and non-motorized traffic, grows outward from the limits of existing development, and…
Purchase of Development Rights: Preserving Farmland and Open Space
…by Purchasing Development Rights Purchase of development rights (PDR) programs are one viable approach that state and local governments are using to preserve farmland and open space. See also Sidebar, An Array of Land Conservation…
Part 4: How Form-Based Codes Are Written
…suburban types of development. Comprehensive plans can also identify different types of areas, where the primary goal for future growth and development could be characterized as “transformation,” “enhancement,” or “maintenance of existing character.” Most of…
Understanding Regional Retail Development
…traffic congestion commonly associated with shopping centers to understand this. Photo illustrates three centers of retail development around Montpelier, Vermont: (1) downtown; (2) strip commercial; and (3) interchange development. Click on photo to view it…
How Cities are Taking on Blight
…of Community Development, the Office of Information Technology and Innovation, the Law Department, and the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority meet to set goals and report on progress. By early this year, Mayor Landrieu had more…
The Real Power of Small Businesses
…sectors of our ecosystem, from the tech start-ups to the strip mall retailers. One issue where all of this comes together, and where people who care about economic development needs to substantially refocus our efforts,…
A is for Automobile
…new residential development (generally for a population with higher disposable income than that of the average dweller along a trolley line) led, in turn, to strip-commercial development along auto routes radiating outward from the city…
What’s the Market Telling Us?
…shift in economic development and retail — a shift fostered by changing demographics. The “20th century model of economic development,” McMahon explained, “focused on the ‘one big thing’ … that is, mega projects like convention…
Talking with Beth Humstone about “Building Invisible Walls”
…and the availability of land for development are difficult to precisely project, it is important to monitor growth rates, housing and land prices, and densities of development within the growth boundaries over time. If prices…
Developing at the Edge
…small towns and villages have long faced a variety of challenges, such as the loss of downtown businesses, ugly commercial strip development, and poorly designed housing at the village edge. In fast-growing metropolitan regions, villages…
Why is Everybody So Mad About Development?
…public hearings to condemn proposed subdivisions and strip centers near their homes; demonstrators shouting down a developer who proposed a new condominium complex; angry neighbors storming onto a local tennis court to berate a development…
A Main Street Succeeds in Tough Times
…Bend and Niles is chock full of strip development. Within the downtown district itself, part of the “renewal” provided in the late 1970s — in the form of River Front Square, a parking dominated shopping…
