Our Top 5 Stories from the Week (July 2-6, 2018)
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1. How Property Taxes Shape Our Cities
by Connor Nielsen | July 2, 2018
Taxation is a powerful planning tool, whether we want it to be or not.
by Charles Marohn | July 2, 2018
We earn the right to do big things by doing the little things well.
3. How Zoning Is Holding Your Neighborhood Back
by Austin Maitland & Nolan Gray | July 5, 2018
Why is your city dotted with vacant lots? Probably because it’s functionally illegal to build on them.
4. 3 Major Problems with Parking Minimums
by Rachel Quednau | July 3, 2018
Parking minimums might sound dull, but they have an enormous impact on the financial success of your city and understanding why is crucial.
5. We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars
by Devon Marisa Zuegel | July 3, 2018
Our transportation system has solely focused on automobile traffic flow as its metric of success. For the sake of our economic and physical health, that needs to change.