YIMBY News for 5/7

[Eric Budd]

Reversing Downtown Decline in a Small South Dakota Town

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.89. development, downtown, growth, housing, project, rent, urban

(Photo by South Dakota News Watch) This small eastern South Dakota town is well known for its deep agricultural roots, its popular Fourth of July celebration and its regionally famous bakery specializing in bi-colored “zebra donuts.” But now, Centerville has a new claim to fame: The town of about 900 people located 40 miles southwest of Sioux Falls has become known as a statewide leader in downtown redevelopment. The successful effort to buck the trend of declining Main Street districts in small South Dakota towns has been fueled in part by a progressive approach to development by local leader

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Opinion: We Must Price and Manage The Curb Before Robo-Taxis and Other AVs Scale Up

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.89. bike lane, growth, mobility, parking, real estate, rent, walk, zone

Jordan: I live in Los Angeles, so I see autonomous vehicles every day. I ride in them. I also watch them stop in active travel lanes, idle in red zones, and sit at the curb in metered spaces for which they don’t pay, at which they can’t be ticketed, and that don’t appear in any city system as occupied. The car is physically present, but administratively it is largely invisible, unlike most other vehicles today where cities have at a minimum mechanisms for them to pay for curb use and receive citations for non-compliance. Gabe: I live in D.C. and AV legislation for commercial service is just be

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Thursday’s Headlines Lag Behind

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.86. bus rapid transit, complete street, downtown, parking, project, transportation, urban, walk

- The U.S. lags so far behind other global cities on transit that it would cost $4.6 trillion to catch up. For example, Houston is about the same size as Paris, but Paris has 10 times the number of buses and light rail cars per capita. New York City has the best transit system in the U.S., but it’s not as good as Tehran’s. Instead of improving transit, we just build more roads and parking as cities sprawl. (The Guardian) - Often overlooked in the furor over urban highways is the way traffic engineers turned downtown streets into one-way speedways to get car commuters home faster. Cities are no

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Trump Is Holding Affordable Transportation Projects Hostage, and Congress Could Call His Bluff

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.17. affordable, growth, house, multimodal, project, rent, transportation, walk

The Trump administration is deepening the national affordability crisis by withholding badly-needed funds for affordable transportation options — and advocates say Congress should refuse to negotiate the bill that will dictate America’s transportation future until the White House stops holding our transportation present hostage. Washington lawmakers are reportedly abuzz over a recent letter lead by the National Campaign for Transit Justice, which called on Congress “to exercise its oversight responsibility” over the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — and demanded th

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