Re-legalizing Fourplexes Would Also Be Fantastic for Bike Transportation
A proposed bill in Oregon is exciting for lots of reasons. Here’s just one.
Region: Oregon
Of 60 Oregon Councils, School Boards, All but Two Underrepresent People of Color
Voters often feel their influence is more powerful at the local level than over state or federal decisions. A voter can implore their city council person to fix a pothole or change the noise ordinances and see a tangible result. A voter can elect a school board member who promises to address racial inequities in … Read more
2018 Was the Year Parking Reform Went from Minor to Major League
Last week, San Francisco and Minneapolis struck down bans on car-free housing.
PDX Reform Plan Hits a Sweet Spot: 24,000 More Homes but Just 117 More Demolitions
Thousands of lots currently on track to become one-unit McMansions would see “missing middle” housing instead.
Listen In: KBOO’s ‘Locus Focus’ on the 2018 Midterm Elections in Cascadia
With another important US election past us, KBOO’s “Locus Focus” devoted an episode last month to looking back at the results and what the next steps are to ensure a progressive agenda moves forward in Oregon and Washington. Sightline Programs Director Eric de Place joined host Barbara Bernstein to discuss the election and forecast what’s … Read more
Portland Might Spend Twice as Much on Free Parking Lots as Affordable Housing along Its Next Rail Line
Free park-and-rides shower hundreds of millions on a small minority of transit riders. But we keep building more and more.
Cascadia’s Three Huge Urbanism Wins of 2018
Yes, we actually did that: 3 big wins for Cascadian city lovers this fall.
Bike-Share Programs in Cascadia: How Are They Faring?
[content_box type=”border”] Definitions Bike-share is evolving rapidly. These are the three most common approaches, though hybrid versions and new twists seem to be popping up weekly: Station-based: From the time Paris debuted the concept in 2007 until recently, “bike share” meant renting and returning bikes at docking stations distributed within a defined geographic area. Washington DC’s … Read more
Little Big Shift: PDX’s 2 Percent Restripe Would Boost Roads’ Capacity 60 Percent
The secret is to move people on vehicles that require less room per person in these reallocated central-city road spaces.
Could State-Led Upzones Happen Here? 7 Lessons from Modern Cascadia
The surprising fact is that they already have, but not in the ways today’s would-be reformers might expect.