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Let’s Have a Group Scream
This is exciting! Anybody who doesn’t have to work evenings can sit in a visioning session to shape how free government money for housing, recreation, and healthcare can shape Smart…
Smart growth
urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl
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Progressive Says Government Too Powerful, Unrepresentative
You know things are getting bad when even Smart Growth advocates feel government is out of control.
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Because Communities Have Brains
This is supposed to make you happy. The City of Asheville is going to “kick off” a new form-based code process for the River Arts District. We are told the…
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Cracked
You may remember the rock meeting the hard place when Mountain Housing Opportunities, an agency very competent in winning government grants to complete subsidized projects, took on the role of…
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Step Outside the Lines & You Get Sick
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…
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You Can’t Plan Attitude
Stephen Schulte* wrote an insightful letter to the Mountain Xpress. Although he1 is opposing a particular development, and I don’t necessarily share all his viewpoints, he calls attention to the…
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This Is Your Mayor Speaking: It’s 5 am and Time for Calisthenics
Boone residents who are about to be drawn into a Wellness District are not all happy, and it is not because somebody left “Children” out of the district title. Many…
Transportation
Washington Examiner’s Tapscott questions government transportation priorities
Mark Tapscott‘s latest Washington Examiner column examines the mismatch between government’s transportation funding priorities and the public’s transportation needs. More than 90 percent of Americans depend upon their personal cars…
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More Peevish than Usual
Today’s first pet peeve shall be copycats. Copycatism doesn’t work because it ain’t got no soul. On my mind is the Heritage Foundation’s following the lead of leftists in trying…
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I Hereby Vision You Over There
The Council of Government has a Southwestern Commission that has a program called OPT-IN, which is short for the exciting Opportunity Initiative. It is another chance for people to feel…
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I Control You, You Control Me, What a Country
Why worry about property rights when such a dynamic conflict continues between the polarities of community rights (delusionary group-think) and planning visions (small-scale tyranny). Smart Growth is great. People must…
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JLF’s latest City and County Issue Guide urges local governments to focus on freedom
The latest edition of JLF’s biennial City and County Issue Guide covers 15 topics ranging from taxes to transit and from smart growth to stadiums. The common theme is freedom.…