ProGov21 Policy Library

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

This guide provides a framework to increase safe and equitable access to parks and green spaces. It focuses on access to parks via active transportation as well as ensuring a high-quality, safe experience within the park itself. The guide includes recommendations to help local decisionmakers...

Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish: New Measures of Housing and Transportation Authority

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2010

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Housing, Community Development

Traditional measures of housing affordability exclude transportation costs. Using their Housing + Transportation index, CNT finds that the number of communities considered affordable drops dramatically when the definition of affordability shifts from a focus on housing costs alone...

Common Mistakes in Drafting Smokefree Indoor Air Ordinances

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2004

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Americans For Nonsmokers's Rights

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces, Health

This report serves as a resource for developing smoke-free indoor air laws and is a companion piece to the Prohibition of Smoking in all Workplaces and Public Places model ordinance. The report outlines common errors to avoid while developing and drafting an ordinance that prohibits...

HOT for Transit? Transit's Experience of High-Occupancy Toll Lanes

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

As more and more regions seek to implement high-occupancy toll or HOT lanes, more and more transit agencies seek knowledge to take advantage of this new infrastructure opportunity. Unfortunately, as is often the case with the rapid diffusion of a new technology, little information...

Generating and Prioritizing Funding for Active Transportation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Transportation plays a critical role in the health and economic development of a metropolitan area. When people have the ability to walk, bike, or take transit safely to a destination, the whole region benefits from healthier people, better air quality, and reduced traffic fatalities....

The Wangari Maathai Natural Garden at the Al Raby School for Community & Environment

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces

The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and Al Raby High School, a Chicago Public School, are transforming the school’s physical environment into the optimal environmental leadership learning environment. The installation of a native woodland garden, named after the 2004 Nobel...

Joint Use Agreements in Tucson Arizona

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town, County

State(s) Arizona

Source Kaboom.org

Policy Areas Children & Families, Community Development, Economic Justice, Health, Public Spaces

To address its deficiency in parks and public green spaces, the city of Tucson established joint use agreements with the unified school district which expanded community access to 12 elementary school yards. This brief outlines the costs and legal processes associated with the agreements...

Estimating Parking Utilization in Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Washington, D.C.

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology

The District Department of Transportation and the District of Columbia Office of Planning led an effort to develop an empirical model for parking utilization in Washington, D.C, and to apply that model to an interactive, web-based tool utilizing the model named ParkRight DC, to support...

Putting Places First: Targeting Infrastructure Improvements to Spur Investment in Priority Development Areas

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Housing, Community Development

This report focuses on this region’s complex pipeline of transportation programs and recommends how Priority Development Areas (PDAs) could better target them to infill development in existing communities....

Rooted in Home: Community-Based Alternatives to the Bay Area Housing Crisis

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2012

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Urban Habitat

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Democracy & Governance

In this report, we introduce real-world examples of alternative solutions and responses to the housing crisis—rooted in permanent affordability and democratic community control—that people are actively working on in the Bay Area and beyond. It is time to move past the current for-profit...

Model Ordinance Prohibiting Smoking in Outdoor Places of Employment and Public Places

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2012

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Americans For Nonsmokers' Rights

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Health, Public Spaces

This model ordinance prohibits smoking in outdoor places of employment, outdoor public places, outdoor residential facilities, and city or county owned property. It defines the enforcement of the law, penalties for violating the law's terms, and posting requirements for "no smoking"...

Chicago's Central Manufacturing District

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Community Development, Economic Justice

Chicago’s Central Manufacturing District (CMD) was the first planned manufacturing district in the United States. A century ago, 252 firms operated in its huge six-story buildings. Tenants ranged from small manufacturers to big names like Wrigley, Ford, United (Rexall) Drug, Pullman,...

Paving the Path to Opportunity: How Revive Oakland Innovated a New Model for Inclusive Economic Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source Partnership for Working Families

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development, Public Spaces

Revive Oakland’s Good Jobs Policy is a case study demonstrating how publicly funded development projects can create widespread economic opportunity. Thanks to an innovative good jobs policy, the warehouse and logistics complex envisioned can pay over 3,000 workers a living wage and...

COVID-19 Pandemic Highlighting the Essential Need for Playgrounds

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Meeting Of The Minds

Policy Areas Education, Public Spaces

The infrastructure of childhood is important, including the safe places to play. The COVID-19 crisis brings to light this need that is often overlooked. As leaders at all levels of government and civil society consider how to stem the impact of COVID-19 with equity in mind, expanding...

Squandering the Stimulus: An Analysis of Household Gas Spending, Economic Stimulus Checks, and the Need for Better Transportation Options

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2008

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Energy, Transportation & Mobility, Data & Technology, Democracy & Governance

US dependence on oil for transportation is costly and harmful. As a result, Americans face financial strain, worsening traffic congestion, and increased global warming pollution. This outlines how the lack of transportation alternatives is evident because many families have spent...

Lean Infrastructure: Better than Gold Plating

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces

Gold plating is when we make changes to projects that are outside the scope of the original plan, resulting in increased time, expenses, and waste. Gold-plating presents barriers to accomplishing good urbanism in the form of initial financial costs that can completely block growth....

Cargo-Oriented Development Gives TOD New Meaning in Older Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center For Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Building off a community's underutilized transit and freight assets is a development strategy that can offer a rich combination of paybacks: business and job growth, viable local small businesses, cost savings for the average household, and increased home ownership opportunities....

Safe Routes to Healthy Food Report and Action Agenda

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility, Food

No one should have to risk their life or spend hundreds of hours a year traveling simply to access healthy food. In too many neighborhoods and communities, local stores do not sell fresh produce or other healthy options, and transportation obstacles make getting to healthy foods dangerous,...

Community Wireless Networks: Cutting Edge Technology for Internet Access

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2006

Level State

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Data & Technology

Wireless community networks can be an effective strategy for addressing the digital divide. They can offer affordable access to the Internet while building community and strengthening the local economy. In an age when access to the Internet is increasingly a condition for full participation...

Lean Charrettes

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Community Development, Public Spaces, Finance & Procurement

Charrettes are collaborative meetings where all project stakeholders come together for a period of focused planning activity in order to resolve conflicts and map solutions. Charrettes are highly effective tools for planning and public engagement, but may be too expensive to fit into...

Green pattern book: using vacant land to create greener neighborhoods in Baltimore

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) Maryland

Source United States Department of Agriculture

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Environment & Natural Resources

This guide outlines best practices for converting vacant land into publicly accessible green spaces and parks. It specifically highlights eight "green patterns" or strategies for holding and converting vacant land including establishing temporary green spaces in plots reserved for...

In Praise of Diversity

Type Article

Year 2023

Level City or Town, National

State(s) California, Louisiana

Source Paul Craig, professor emeritus of engineering at UC Davis and former chair of the Sierra Club’s National Committee on Energy and Global Warming

Policy Areas Community Development, Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility

Heavy reliance on private vehicles has led to significant adverse effects, including dependence on imported oil, global warming, urban sprawl, and loss of community sense. Localities should develop innovative transportation systems that cater to diverse lifestyles and reduce reliance...

Lean Exercise: Open Gyms

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Health, Community Development, Public Spaces

We've done a great job developing technology and labor saving machines, which unfortunately has produced a population that is disconnected from nature and sedentary. Our fondness of sitting is reflected in growing rates of obesity, diabetes, and chronic pain. One of the best things...

Housing + Transportation Affordability in Washington, DC

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Housing, Public Spaces

Incorporating location efficiency (measured here as the cost of transportation associated with places) into policy and affordability analysis exposes previously hidden financial burdens and time constraints for households, poor location decisions by developers, and missed and misplaced...

Quality of Life, Equality of Place

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2014

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source Center for Neighborhood Technology

Policy Areas Transportation & Mobility, Community Development, Housing, Public Spaces

This guide argues for the benefits of fair and affordable transit-oriented development (TOD) in Chicago's northern suburbs. It highlights the crucial role of rail transit in anchoring neighborhoods throughout Chicago and the lack of mixed-income transit-oriented housing development...

ProGov21 Policy Library

Remove Entry

There was an error communicating with the server.

There was an error while saving your data.

Error

Update Page Content

You are leaving the page