Does Your Land Use Plan Actually Work?

Small town Midwest residential street with single-family homes and duplexes, front porches and mature trees — residential land use small town planning

Four Sundays. One development proposal. Four different layers of the same question. We started with a farmer’s heirs who wanted to sell. We followed that proposal through the future land use map, through agricultural land use policy, through the gap between the zoning code and the comprehensive plan, and finally through the thirty-year cost calculation […]

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Costs of Sprawl, MN Housing Bust Version

Minnesota Public Radio did a story this week titled: Housing bust exposes the cost of unplanned growth Geographers call them “the exurbs.” These are bedroom communities; people here generally commute to the city for work. Baldwin Township has only 30 or so businesses, but it has more than 2,000 houses. Driving past one of Baldwin’s […]

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