Charles Marohn

1. Community
2. End Parking Mandates and Subsidies
3. Good Policy Options for Reducing Parking Waste in a Microplitan Area

I wrote a plan to do exactly that. Here's the link.

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• March 12, 2023 02:22
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1. Community
2. Transparent Local Accounting
3. Large scale cost/revenue analysis

Yeah, you've reach the same problem I reached back in 2007. You can't scale costs this way, not in any reliable fashion. Even here in central Minnesota, with 200 feet of sandy glacial outwash to wo...

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• March 02, 2023 20:01
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1. Community
2. Help Each Other
3. How can I 'fix' a road-widening project to have more non-automotive transportation options?

This reminds me of the time that the city here in Brainerd decided to put bike lanes in front of one of the Catholic churches (not the one I primarily attend). Why bike lanes there? Because they we...

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• February 13, 2023 16:17
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1. Community
2. Incremental Housing
3. upzoning to raise property taxes, but development stymied by covenants

Well, I don't think there is a solution here. A less dramatic upzoning would be.... um.... less pointless.  But, yes, covenants can be removed, but more often they disappear because they are ignore...

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• February 07, 2023 05:50
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1. Community
2. Incremental Housing
3. upzoning to raise property taxes, but development stymied by covenants

You're demonstrating why I'm not a fan of restrictive covenants nor dramatic upzonings. This situation seems like bad policy decision meets bad policy decision. I don't see a simple or even logical...

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• February 07, 2023 02:36
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1. Community
2. General Discussion
3. Who is already doing things right?

Thanks Steve. This is the most common question that I receive. I've answered it in a number of ways, but I just wrote this article to try and summarize. If I'm not understanding you, please let me ...

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• February 06, 2023 17:52
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1. Community
2. General Discussion
3. "Safety First": What does it mean?

It is possible to believe you are making things safer and putting safety as a priority while your actions actually run counter to this. Adherents to the forgiving design mentality -- basically anyo...

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• February 05, 2023 23:28
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Nominate A Crash

We are accepting applications from individuals, local groups, and cities that want to nominate a crash for analysis. There is no cost to apply, but we will ask applicants for assistance in assembli...

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1. Community
2. Help Each Other
3. How do cities ensure a good return on infrastructure investments?

Funny, I read this and three different articles came to mind (we've written so many that meet this description). The Strong Towns Approach to Public Investment (excerpt from Strong Towns) Your Ci...

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• January 24, 2023 05:13
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