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Dive into the heart of South Cobb with our latest blog, where we shed a light on the incredible journey of overcoming obstacles with sheer resilience and determination. 💪 🌟From transformative determination to the community's collective strides towards betterment, this is a testament to the strength and spirit of South Cobb. 💚 Witness the triumphs, the challenges faced, and the victories won, all woven into the rich tapestry of our South Cobb communities. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/ed2ih4bW

A great longform discussion posing the question as to where will everyone live, the obsession with the size, scale and decadence of dwellings, more efficient and increased coordination of strategic planning efforts across metropolitan Perth Councils, and a need to end our neverending urban sprawl. 

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Check out this article I wrote for the 2024 Visit Brookings Guide! Special thanks to Dr. Hendricks for giving our class the opportunity to do this.

The session itself will examines practical methods for implementing social equity housing, apparatus for efficient frameworks of community involvement in governance, and perhaps institutional or programmatic obstacles.

Attending the Land & Development conference today, some great insight to where the market is heading.

In our newest working paper, San Jose State University Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Shishir Mathur evaluates the San Joaquin County Regional Transportation Impact Fee (RTIF), a land value capture tool coordinated by the San Joaquin Council of Governments. Check out his assessment of the RTIF’s fee utilization rate, horizontal and vertical equity, and transferability: https://lnkd.in/eaBraJi9 Department of Urban and Regional Planning

We are thankful that AWRA’s Florida Chapter chose Sarasota for their upcoming meeting, which centers around the recovery of water quality in Sarasota Bay - how it got worse, how we figured out what had to be done, and the projects and programs that helped us meet (already!) our pollutant load reduction goal. Sarasota Bay is not nearly as big as other systems in Florida, but we have many challenges nonetheless. For example, Tampa Bay’s watershed is about 14 times bigger than Sarasota Bay’s, but it only has 3 to 4 times as many people living in it, compared to us. Take the population of Miami-Dade County and divide it by the size of Biscayne Bay’s watershed and we still have 3 times the number of people per square mile. Undisturbed natural lands only make up about 2% of our watershed. Yet our water quality is now better than it has been at any time over the last 10 years - not even including data from the drought year of 2023. How’d we pull it off? By speaking directly about the problems we faced, by being “biased towards action” and by having local elected officials who were as interested in turning our bay around as the scientists and engineers who worked to come up with the projects needed to bring this recovery about. #sarasotabay #waterquality #restoration

Looking forward to be talking about sustainability in historic buildings today. Come by and have a chat if you can!