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Real Estate Urban Planning Climate Environment

Sprawlhaven, Florida: Suburbs In The Age Of Climate Change

November 10, 2022November 18, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments arcade theater fort myers, caloosahatchee, cape coral, charlotte county, climate, climate change in florida, collier county, duke energy, florida, florida climate change, florida department of community affairs, ford's garage fort myers, hurricane ian, immokalee, insurance, insurance and climate change, lee county, miami-dade county, miami-dade urban growth boundary, monroe county, naples, naples florida, punta gorda, rick scott, storm damage florida, ugb, urban growth boundary, wesley marx

Fort Myers, Florida, is a flashpoint for the Sunshine State’s battle against climate change. It’s a battle that the state isn’t exactly winning. Part of that is coming from the self-inflicted wounds of eviscerating public sector oversight of real estate development. We’ve got photos of the traffic jams and storm damage to prove it.

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Handbuilt Votes 2022: Urbanism At The Ballot Box

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 Guest 0 Comments ballot measure, ballotpedia, boulder county, california, charlie leduff, detroit news, fresno county, funding buses, Gretchen Whitmer, gulf coast, hillsborough county, infrastructure funding, karen jaroch, kristina karamo, new hanover county, orange county florida, orlando, qanon, san francisco, smart cities dive, southeast michigan, suburbs, tampa, transit, transit funding, transit millage, transit vote, transportation, vote on transit funding

Three counties in Southeast Michigan will vote on transit funding next week. There are also a number of other transit and infrastructure-related votes around the country.

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How To Find Nonpartisan Consensus in Sustainable Urbanism

November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments andy wells-bean, bike grid, bike infrastructure, bike lane, bike lanes, bike pathways, florida, induced demand, infrastructure, mobility, naples florida, naples pathways coalition, nonmotorized infrastructure, oak & stone, paradise coast, public safety, reflection isles, ron desantis, safe streets, safety, sharrow, southwest florida, sunshine state, swf, swfl, traffic jams, transportation infrastructure

In an era when political discourse seems so fragmented, polarized, and toxic, is it possible to find consensus on any issue? A recent trip to Southwest Florida featured an interesting conversation on the subject– around transportation infrastructure that can make South Florida’s cities safer and more attractive for the large number of tourists and residents alike.

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Our Top Ten Scariest Things In Urbanism This Halloween

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, amy coney barrett, angie schmitt, brett kavanaugh, clarence thomas, climate change, dave staudt, department of transportation, dot, emergency management, epa, epa ruling on carbon dioxide, fossil fuel crunch, fossil fuels, Gretchen Whitmer, halloween, halloween party, itaetwon, itaetwon tragedy, jeff bezos, matt maddock, media platforms, meshawn maddock, michigan proposal 3, neil gorsuch, noah balanda, oakland county gop, pedestrian fatalities, pedestrian safety, safe streets, safety, seoul, shane trejo, smart millage, supreme court, twitter, white supremacists

Halloween is a spooky time of year. Know what else is spooky? Well, we have a list of ten things– which we meticulously compiled while wearing our costumes in the war room of Handbuilt Heavy Industries, Ltd.

The Oakland County GOP Is Courting Literal Nazis To Fight Infrastructure Funding

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments brooks patterson, dave coulter, dave staudt, fix the damn roads, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, l brooks patterson, lyft, novi, road maintenance, roads, shane trejo, southeast michigan, TNC, transit, transportation, transportation infrastructure, Uber

For reasons that don’t seem to make any sense but were probably completely predictable, a nonprofit advocacy group in the northern suburbs of Detroit has enlisted a prominent Nazi sympathizer to fight against the real scourge of America: modern transportation infrastructure!

Urban Planning Housing

Pattern Zoning: What Is It? Is It Good?

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cookie-cutter housing, development policy, housing, land use policy, michigan, michigan municipal league, missing middle, missing middle housing, pattern housing, pattern zoning, real estate development, residential development, Sprawl, suburb, suburban, suburban development, suburbs, tract housing, Zoning

The Michigan Municipal League thinks that a modern take on pattern zoning might actually help encourage better infill and planned development.

Weekend Project: Working with Weathered, Reclaimed Lumber

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments capillary action, douglas fir, drying oil, fir, freeze-thaw, hardwood, how to work with reclaimed lumber, linseed oil, natural, natural finishes, natural wood finishes, old wood, orbital sander, pine, polymerized linseed oil, random orbital sander, reclaimed lumber, ron desantis, sandpaper, softwood, trees, tried and true, tried and true wood finish, varnish, varnish oil, weathered lumber, wood, wood finishing, woodworking, working with old wood, xylem

Many moons ago, when we renovated the third floor, we ended up removing a bunch of (non-structural) walls and ceiling

Want To Municipalize Your Utility? I Mean, Really?

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, detroit edison, distribution, DTE, DTE Energy, feeder, feeder lines, flooding, generation mix, grid, jerry norcia, miso, miso grid, municipalization, power generation, power grid, public utility, renewables, severe weather, southeast michigan, storms, thunderstorms, transmission, underground utility lines, undergrounding, undergrounding utilities, weather and utilities

DTE Energy is a disaster, as evidenced by its continued embrace of fossil fuels and its apocalypse-level outages. That doesn’t mean that a public option could do better. But there are some options for improving.

Getting Rid Of Your Car Could Make You Happier

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ann-kathrin hess, beck's depression inventory, bicycle, bike, bike infrastructure, biking, car culture, car shedding, cars, cars and happiness, cost of car ownership, Density, honda fit, infrastructure, jeff speck, non-motorized infrastructure, non-motorized transportation, Porsche Taycan, public transit, transportation infrastructure, walking

A new research paper assesses the perceived happiness of households that have gotten rid of their car. Turns out that it might actually be good for your brain! There is a catch, though, and it’s not going to work for everyone.

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Ann Arbor Axes Parking Minimums. In Michigan, That’s Huge.

August 17, 2022August 17, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ann arbor, Density, detroiters for parking reform, donald shoup, far, parking, parking garage, parking lots, parking policy, parking policy reform, parking policy reform network, parking pricing, parking space, parking spaces, parking structures, property tax revenue, shoupista, street parking, strongtowns, tax revenue, the high cost of free parking, urban heat island, which cities have eliminated parking minimums

The city of Ann Arbor officially abolished parking minimums yesterday with the passage of an amendment to the city’s development

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