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Type Article
Year 2007
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source Elizabeth Macdonald, Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley
Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility
Local planners often restrict tree planting near intersections due to safety concerns, which may not be justified. This article recommends that cities should not restrict sidewalk street trees unless it can be shown unequivocally that they create unsafe environments. This issue relates...

Type Article
Year 2013
Level County
State(s) California
Source Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Urban Planning in UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs
Policy Areas Community Development, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing, Transportation & Mobility
The slow implementation of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is hindered by poor planning, lack of coordination among agencies, community resistance, and high costs. TOD can address urban issues like housing affordability, sprawl, and transit accessibility by promoting sustainable...

Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2022
Level City or Town, County, State
State(s) All States
Source American Sustainable Business Network
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources
Too often, environmental conservation is seen as an economic loss and a drag on community resources. This report challenges this conceptualization of conservation by presenting tools and methods to quantify the economic value of coastal and land conservation....

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