Note from PCJ Editor Wayne Senville: In our Winter 2011 planner and PCJ contributing writer Beth Humstone, in “Building Invisible Walls,” reports on the use of urban growth boundaries (or “UGBs” as they’re often called)….
Editor’s Note: Over the past 35 years, Beth Humstone has worked as a planning consultant on a wide range of projects in rural communities and small towns. She serves as an advisor to the National…
…2002). Editor’s note: This article by PCJ contributing writer Beth Humstone supplements the PCJ article by Diana Limbach Lempel & Christina DiLisio, “Food Planning for Your Local Economy” (Winter 2012). The full text of Humstone’s…
…2. Problem Behaviors; 3. Graffiti; 4. Residential Growth in the Downtown; 5. Transportation Challenges; and 6. New Advances in Promotion. Beth Humstone works as a planning consultant on a wide range of projects in rural…
…Beth Humstone. Even with the cool-down in the housing market, communities in different parts of the country are wrestling with this issue. This is especially true for “first ring” suburbs that are attractive for their…
…increasingly responding to this demand. — end of excerpt — Beth Humstone works as a planning consultant on a wide range of projects in rural communities and small towns. She is an advisor to the…
See also Editor Wayne Senville’s follow up discussion with Beth Humstone about her article. Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of…
…10. Tear Downs Beth Humstone works as a planning consultant on a wide range of projects in rural communities and small towns. She is an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation; former Executive…
…with either convenience or comparison goods. It may even point out areas where future shopping should be planned. … end of excerpt Beth Humstone works as a planning consultant on a wide range of projects…
1. Future Housing Demand: Problem or Opportunity by Beth Humstone 2. Perspectives on Planning for Housing by Wendy Grey, AICP 3. Housing: “One-Size-Fits-All” No Longer Works by Edward McMahon Read an excerpt from this article…
Read an excerpt from this article below. You can download the full article by using the link at the end of the excerpt. The 1960s and 1970s were a major period of road building in…
…“blue grass” horse farms. An urban service limit was established that denied improved roads, utilities, and other services to areas near the horse farms, but assured them in other sectors. Editor’s note: see Beth Humstone’s…
One of the most remarkable aspects of Oregon planning law is the “urban growth boundary” (UGB). We’ve reported before about the use of UGBs (see Beth Humstone’s “Building Invisible Walls“) but actually visiting the Portland…
