North Carolina’s housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a supply problem. Demand continues to grow as people and businesses move to the state, but housing production has struggled to keep pace.…
My latest column for Carolina Journal: CHARLOTTE — It was a protest that absolutely no one in Charlotte saw coming. A dive bar in a hip neighborhood was to be…
The Boone Town Council is moving forward with plans to create a Wellness District, but first it wants The Wee Peeps to feel inclusive. It will host a workshop to…
I take notes at local government meetings because my memory is near-nonexistent, and I’ve ruined in short order every handheld electronic device I’ve ever owned. I zone out when people…
Progressives are now divided between environmentalists and New Urbanists. One common tater wrote to the Mountain Xpress charging mixed-use, high-density, infill near transit lines: pits moneyed economic interests against the…
Asheville City Council approved a 12-story hotel for downtown. Plans for the hotel had survived the rest of the design approval process, but they were challenged by a lawyer who…
NIMBY’s trumped Smart Growth in Asheville once again. On Chestnut Street, in my old hood, the neighbors ganged up on a developer attempting to construct infill housing within walking distance…
Here we go again. Everybody wants Smart Growth, but infill development obscures views and sunlight in the NIMBY metro space. Cities don’t need buildings, they need greenspace for pedestrian interaction.…
Joe Minicozzi is a local character who is famous for being famous. The urban planner from Florida is once again in the headlines. This time, it is because he is…
Nuther clip-n-save quote from QC officialdom on our land-use goals. The topic is tear-downs and “McMansion” infill development in close-in neighborhoods like Plaza Midwood and Elizabeth. Neighborhood association types are…
The Greensboro City Council has two controversial rezonings on the agenda tonight, one of which is a request to put a 24-hour drugstore in the area at New Garden Drive…
The Raleigh city council will discuss solutions to the perceived problem of homeowners who desire to live in larger homes inside the beltline. Since there are few large homes in…