Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Smart Growth

EPA Recognizes Small Towns and Big Cities For Smart Growth Efforts

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2010 | No Comments

When Don White was young, his dad would drive him from the Boston area to Blue Hill, Maine up coastal Route 1. “In those days,” he reminisces, “the road wound through little, small towns. And some of that has been bypassed.” The bypasses have been “hugely controversial, hugely disruptive, hugely expensive,” according to Kate Beaudoin, […]

If Climate Experts Wrote New York Transportation Policy…

By Noah Kazis | Nov 11, 2010 | 20 Comments

As Andrew Cuomo transitions into the governorship, David Paterson just handed him a parting gift: a comprehensive blueprint for how the state can tackle its greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which has been in development since a Paterson executive order in August 2009, goes into spectacular detail about how the state might reach the ambitious […]

Cuomo’s Green Agenda Comes Out Swinging for Smart Growth

By Noah Kazis | Nov 2, 2010 | 1 Comment

Last Friday, Andrew Cuomo released his green agenda, the final installment in a series of policy papers his campaign published over the last few months. In it, Cuomo strongly endorses smart growth and suggests the creation of a competitive grant program to encourage better planning. He also expresses his support for high speed rail, public […]

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Without a Plan, Sprawl Will Continue to Hollow Out Cleveland Region

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 13, 2010 | No Comments

If you want to get a sense of how devastating sprawl has been to the urban areas of northeast Ohio, head over to Woodlawn Avenue in East Cleveland. Between the rows of boarded up buildings, a house collapses onto itself. Graffiti pays homage to dead loved ones — “R.I.P. Fife.” Nearby, stuffed animals have been […]

Paterson Signs Smart Growth Act; Now Comes the Hard Part

By Noah Kazis | Sep 2, 2010 | 1 Comment

Governor David Paterson announced Tuesday that he had signed Assembly Member Sam Hoyt’s Smart Growth Infrastructure Public Policy Act, making it the law of the land that all state infrastructure spending must comply with a set of smart growth principles, including fostering compact, mixed-use development and reducing dependence on the automobile. Paterson’s approval has been […]

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Will GOP Senators Acknowledge the Fiscal Sense of Livable Communities?

By John Burgess Everett | Aug 10, 2010 | No Comments

Last week, the Livable Communities Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee, a milestone for legislation that would fund local efforts to plan for growth while curbing sprawl. But the 12-10 party line vote raised the prospect that the bill might also encounter unified Republican opposition in the full Senate, where the threat of a filibuster […]

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