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Right-To-Renew, And Other Things

January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ann arbor, ann arbor michigan, ann arbor right to renew ordinance, corktown, detroit housing, detroit housing policy, housing in detroit, right to renew, right-to-renew

Gentrification and predatory housing practices led policymakers in Ann Arbor to create a new “right-to-renew” ordinance. Could it be a valuable tool in the fight for tenant protections?

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Mobility Public Health Public Safety

NTSB: Breathalyzers in All Cars?

September 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 roadway fatalities, 2021 roadway fatalities, 2022 roadway fatalities, alcohol, alcohol abuse, breathalyzer, cafe standards, car culture, car safety, cars, decreased vmt and increased fatalities, defensive driving, dot, drinking, driving fatalities, drunk driving, jackie walorski, los angeles travel nurse crash, national transportation safety board, safe driving, safety, substance abuse, USDoT, vmt

A recent release from the National Transportation Safety Board is suggesting that the federal government is considering developing new requirements

Policy Urban Planning Mobility Parking Government

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

Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

Washington, DC’s Big Car Tax Is A Novel, Necessary Approach To Traffic Fatalities.

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments angie schmitt, automobiles, bloomberg, cars, complete streets, cyclist fatalities, david zipper, dc vision zero, department of transportation, district of columbia, dmv, dot, florida, high and mighty, keith bradsher, mdot, muriel bowser, pedestrian fatalities, public safety, rate of pedestrian fatalities, right of way, safe streets, street safety, streets, vision zero, warshington, warshington dc, Washington DC, we've got a delegation, why is food in dc so expensive

Pedestrian and cyclist safety has a new potential ally in the form of an annual registration tax for huge, heavy cars.

Public Safety

Idle Thoughts And Prayers: Why I’m Not Attending The CHARGE Energy Branding Conference in Texas

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments charge energy conference, conferences, defund the police, firearms, greg abbott, gun control, gun safety, houston, ken paxton, ken paxton investigation, lone star, lone star state, mass shootings, police, police abolition, police budgets, police reform, police spending, public safety, texas, texas state police, uvalde, uvalde police, uvalde police response, uvalde school shooting, uvalde texas

Nat has, for better or worse, cancelled his trip to an energy conference in the Lone Star State.

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Urban Planning Mobility Public Safety

“Bike Lanes Are Against My Morals,” Says Ohio Woman

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bexley, bexley ohio, bike, bike lanes, columbus, columbus ohio, livability, ohio, protected bike lanes, retrofitting the suburbs, roads, sharrow, sharrows, street, streets, suburban sprawl, suburbs, the profoundly disappointing gesturalism of the sharrow, walkability

The economics of parking are simple. Convincing community members, though? Sometimes not so much.

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Public Health Government

The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

Public Health

“It Is What It Is”: With Omicron Rampant, Will Trump Country Notice?

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 5g chips, anti-vax, anti-vaxxers, baby-eating democrats, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, Donald Trump, friedman unit, greg gianforte, is there lizard DNA in the vaccine, lizard DNA, macomb county, omicron, omicron variant, pandemic, qanon, rural, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, rural icu beds, sean hannity, trump, trump voters, tucker carlson

The novel coronavirus hit cities hard at the beginning of the pandemic. But in 2021, it is disproportionately killing rural Americans– closely along party lines. Will the rapid spread of the novel omicron variant make this trend even worse?

Book Reviews Policy Public Safety Movements & Organizing

Book Review: Rise of the Warrior Cop, by Radley Balko

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1999 wto protests, black lives matter, book review, book reviews, broken windows policing, community policing, daryl gates, first amendment, fourth amendment, gun control, gun nuts, gun violence, guns, jeff sessions, norm stamper, philadelphia, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police militarization, protesters, protests, radley balko, rise of the warrior cop, seattle, second amendment, swat, swat team, traffic stops, traffic violence

A new book looks at the militarization of police forces in the United States, how it costs taxpayers a staggering amount of money, threatens American democracy, and, above all else, doesn’t actually do much to reduce crime.

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Urban Planning Policy Housing

Those People: NIMBYism in America’s 17th-Wealthiest County

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Accessory dwelling unit, ADU, bethesda, bethesda maryland, DC, Density, district of columbia, euclidean zoning, form-based code, housing, housing shortage, montgomery county maryland, upzoning, use-based code, warshington dc, Washington DC, why is housing so expensive in dc, Zoning, zoning classification, zoning codes, zoning reform

If you, like me, are a part-time transplant resident of the District of Columbia– and are a policy nerd, no

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