How planners can respond to the retail apocalypse
Following up on last month’s guest column by Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim tells us what planners can do to anticipate and mitigate changes in the retail sector.
The retail apocalypse: Here’s your lump of coal
Carlisle/Wortman’s guest columnist, Ebenezer Scrooge, brings you the ghost of Christmas future, at least as it applies to the retail sector.
Make your community age-friendly with this AARP program
Your residents are aging. Are you ready for that? AARP’s Age-Friendly Network offers tools and guidance.
Local communities should control short term rentals, not Lansing
Dick Carlisle takes on two bills that would treat short term rentals as a permitted use in any zone and preempt communities’ ability to regulate them.
Planners and public safety officials unite to fight Phragmites
The tool kit for fighting Phragmites includes state laws, building codes, zoning ordinances, noxious weed ordinances and stormwater management rules.
Better storytelling leads to better planning
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
A public health crisis resulted in a pioneering GIS project
Don’t let a crisis be the wake-up call telling you that your infrastructure map is incomplete.
Parks and urban land could solve stormwater challenges
As the earth warms, precipitation increases. Parks and vacant urban lots could be tools for detention, retention or outright stormwater management.
CWA planners will present to Cleveland APA chapter
Carlisle/Wortman’s John Enos will present a session on roles and responsibilities and open meetings/sunshine laws to APA Cleveland in November.
Metromode interviews CWA’s Dick Carlisle about sprawl
What will stop sprawl? Changing tastes and demographic demand are pulling people, especially the young and old, back into close-in, urban centers says Dick Carlisle.