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These 6 Code Reforms Will Bring More Housing to Your City Chuck is joined by Seth Zeren, a neighborhood real estate developer, to discuss the six code reforms recommended in “The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform.” (Transcript included.)

The long-awaited Lehigh Valley passenger train study is in. It has identified the five most likely routes for restoring service between the Lehigh Valley and New York, Philadelphia and Reading.

Check back for updates. You can view the report here: https://trib.al/CI6HF1Q

It’s been a dangerous couple years to be a pedestrian in the Lehigh Valley. The conversations need to change. Status quo isn’t working.

Why Does Someone Need To Die for a Street To Be Made Safer? There’s no excuse: when members of a community see a dangerous street for what it is, it shouldn’t take a death (or several deaths) for the city to finally take action.

Important report and model ordinance just issued by PennFuture on How-to-Protect-PA-Communities-and-Environment-from-Distribution-Center-Development

This provides good, practical information that local government officials and the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission can use to manage warehouse and distribution center growth.

How to Protect PA Communities and Environment from Distribution Center Development PennFuture Releases Living With Logistics: A Model Logistics Use Zoning Ordinance for PA Municipalities to manage the influx of massive distribution centers

Any rooms for one more? Lehigh Valley hits ‘critical’ need for affordable housing: report Experts say low-income renters have been growing in number since the 2008 housing bubble popped.

The Real Reason Your City Has No Money Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes. We're in a predicament.

Impact Fees Don't Mean Development Is Paying for Itself Development impact fees are supposed to “make development pay its own way.” But if your development pattern is fundamentally unproductive, they don’t. They’re a one-time cash hit in exchange for taking on a permanent liability.

Value Per Acre Analysis: A How-To For Beginners Want to do the kind of value-per-acre analysis that you’ve seen on Strong Towns before, but don’t think of yourself as a data wizard? Here’s a step by step guide for beginners.