Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
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Jerry Paffendorf of Loveland Technologies joins us to talk about parcel data (and how it can be used for good), Detroit's history and present, the legacy of the U.S. Public Land Survey, and much more.
Resiliency expert Laura Clemons talks about the things small communities need to do to be ready to bounce back from a disaster — well before one actually strikes.
Bastrop (TX) City Manager Lynda Humble rejoins the program to talk about learning that her city was on track to bankrupt itself by its own development pattern — and the big changes they're making to reverse that trend.
What the heck are ADUs, and why aren't there more of them? We discuss the benefits of these 'granny flats' (as they are sometimes, less clinically, referred to), some common preconceptions about them, and how your city could encourage people to build them.
Texas is the latest state to pass or amend legislation capping the amount cities’ revenue from property taxes can increase year to year. In this episode, we discuss the fallout from this type of legislation in states across the country—and what cities can do in response.
We explore a few of the common assumptions about single-family homes and single-family-only zoning (not the same thing!), and discuss recent moves to re-legalize other housing types, such as duplexes and fourplexes.
Small developer Monte Anderson joins the show for a second time to go a bit more in depth about his Dallas-area projects that give small-time entrepreneurs a place to make a living and build wealth for the community.
We’re starting a new series on the Go Cultivate! podcast called “Are We Doing This Right?” Once a month we’ll pick a topic – some element of the way we design or operate our cities – and honestly ask the question: Are we doing this right? This month's topic: fire departments.
Part 2: What happens when the public doesn't trust planners? And how can we work to build more trusting, two-way relationships between community members and the folks in local government?
What happens when the public doesn't trust planners? And how can we work to build more trusting, two-way relationships between community members and the folks in local government?
We're back with the second part of our discussion on the role of the responsible developer – with Derek and Bianca Avery, incremental developers and community builders with COIR Holdings.
We talk with Michael Kovacs and Justin Weiss from Fate, Texas, about their city's unique approach to steering development in a way that strengthens their financial future, rather than jeopardizing it. It does involve math, but it turns out to be actually pretty simple!
In this episode, we follow up on last week's chat on the crucial challenge facing city administrators across the country—their city's resource gap. We talk about how city leaders can understand whether their current processes and daily decisions are moving them toward or away from long-term fiscal health.
Running a city is hard work, and it’s even harder when there aren’t enough resources to cover basic service and infrastructure needs. More and more cities are finding themselves in this tricky spot, and it’s easy for city leaders to feel overwhelmed.
In this episode, we talk about the challenges facing city administrators (as well as their staff) who are increasingly stretched thin by their city's growing resource gap. Then we discuss what they can do about it.
We design our homes to the scale of a human being. We used to design our neighborhoods that way. So what happened? And does it matter how we size our streets or our cities?
Happy New Year! It's a record-breaking episode, as we had on all four co-founders of Re:Form Shreveport, a grassroots organization whose aim is to “create a stronger and more resilient Shreveport by growing a culture of engagement and trust between citizens, businesses, and government.”
This is Part 2 of our discussion on incremental development with developer Monte Anderson.
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