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Requesting a Variance from Variances! Consider a Conditional Use
Shopping Malls: This Ain’t the Dawn of the Dead
Friendly Neighborhood Fulfillment Centers: Not Your Mama’s Fulfillment Centers
Recently, one forward thinking Pennsylvania grocery retailer opened a new Ecommerce hub facility at the site of one of its former, traditional grocery store buildings in a mixed-use neighborhood. Rather than demolishing the existing “brick and mortar” building, it is adaptively reusing the building by converting it to a new “click and mortar” facility.
For many retailers, the traditional retail approach includes a commercial building with a significant retail display and sales area directly accessible…
Reclaiming “Paradise”: One Parking Space at a Time (Part 3 of 3)
In our first two posts (Part 1 and Part 2), we discussed current approaches used by many communities to regulate parking, factors contributing to those approaches, and how those approaches are not sustainable because they consume large amounts of space and money. Great anecdotal evidence of what we described is provided annually in a post from “Strong Towns” titled “The Best of #BlackFridayParking.” It is worth a look.
In this, our…
Reclaiming “Paradise”: One Parking Space at a Time (Part 2 of 3)
In our first post of this three-post series on parking (available here) we discussed Richard Florida’s informative, but not surprising, article which states “American cities devote far too much space and far too many resources to parking.” Location, ownership and management of existing parking spaces are significant issues impacting parking in communities, and our first post focused on their impacts based on the current approach to parking regulations taken by most communities. The…
Reclaiming “Paradise”: One Parking Space at a Time (Part 1 of 3)
Most of us have heard the “Big Yellow Taxi” song that includes the memorable line “they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” But what if that paradise is not completely lost and communities started reclaiming their paradise by taking a different approach to their parking regulations? This is the first in a three-post series discussing the current approach to parking regulations and solutions communities, especially urban communities, should consider to “right-size” their parking…
Education and Training – More than Just CEUs/CLEs
There is no doubt the best development occurs when developers and development professionals are able to work with municipal leaders and staff on a project. So, it is for the benefit of all when developers and development professionals find ways to engage and help educate municipal leaders and staff in the area of land use.
Many professionals involved in commercial real estate and land development (development professionals) attend and teach educational seminars offered by private…