Posts tagged Urban Development Areas
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Breakfast links: Hogan’s choices
Purple haze; Red riot; Highway work; Metro’s next steps; Worth the cost; Need parking?; Bad roads; Fair housing win; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Fascinating juxtapositions
Diffrent Democrats’ attitudes on bike lanes; Different councils’ reaction to Walmart; Urbanist-economic bloggers discuss tea party article; Refute traffic engineers, get investigated?; Roundabout works, residents admit; New Hampshire could limit student vote; ICC to Georgia opening soon. Keep reading…
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Virginia tea party opposes less government regulation with anti-Smart Growth, “eco-extremist” hysteria
Claiming that “eco-extremists” want to force people to move into “feudalistic transit villages,” a Virginia tea party leader is attacking Virginia’s conservative House speaker for supporting a policy that loosens government regulation over development in some areas of the state. The policy, known as “Urban Development Areas,”… Keep reading…
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Slow and steady creates Virginia’s Urban Development Areas
Over the last couple of years the state government of Virginia has been rolling out a land use planning category for localities known as Urban Development Areas (UDAs), where higher density development can be concentrated. The concept started off slowly in 2007 with HB 3202 as an advisory element to be placed in the Comprehensive Plans of “high growth” localities,… Keep reading…