Here are the most recent important changes to our website, including new articles, visitor questions, and editors' answers. You'll also find links to significantly revised pages and time-sensitive or short items we want to bring to your attention. Sometimes we also add short items of interest, especially time-sensitive notes about conferences, webinars, or seasons.
Gentrification is the process of neighborhoods becoming unaffordable to those who currently live there. This page shows strategies to prevent displacement.
Continue reading "Gentrification in City Neighborhoods, Its Causes and Effects "
Neighborhood plans work wonders if you need to solidify residents or your city around specific goals. Find out what it takes to prepare one.
Continue reading "Learn How Neighborhood Plans Lead to Clarity and Action"
Visitor Question: The craziest thing is happening around here. In the last couple of years we are having way too many fender benders in our neighborhood.
Continue reading "How can we reduce minor traffic accidents in the neighborhood?"
Strip mall redevelopment will increase in importance for residents and neighborhoods, as vacancy rates and suburban blight increase. Read what to do next.
Continue reading "Strip Mall Redevelopment: A Current and Future Land Use Challenge"
Visitor Question: A wealthy and gregarious neighbor has SCHMOOZED the code officer into looking the other way on his development. I have filed several
Continue reading "Code officer ignores my written complaints"
The Useful Community Development Plus newsletter archive contains back issues featuring original articles and resources for neighborhood and city leaders.
Continue reading "Useful Community Development Newsletter Archive"
Visitor Question: What are some of the best ways for communities to address the transportation needs of people who are disabled, or differently abled?
Continue reading "What are some transportation strategies for the disabled"
These spring newsletter ideas are clustered into eleven themes to make your neighborhood e-mail composition chores easier.
Continue reading "Spring Newsletter Ideas to Brighten Up Your Neighborhood Messaging"
Visitor Question: The cost of flood insurance has just about tripled in the last year around where I live. We did have a destructive flash flood that was
Continue reading "High Cost of Flood Insurance Is Ruining Our Neighborhood"
Visitor Question: At our town's zoning commission meeting, I heard some visiting big shot talk about how we need to preserve and enhance our blue infrastructure.
Visitor Question: Our little suburb has been plagued with some terrible elected city council people for several years now. Every time there is an election
Continue reading "How Can We Get Young People Interested in Voting?"
A community can rev up the links between higher education and economic development. Here are some ideas about how.
Continue reading "Higher Education and Economic Development Agencies Can Partner "
Condo conversion zoning or alternate approval process should focus on both good development practice and preventing displacement to the extent possible.
Continue reading "Condo Conversion Zoning or Regulation Questions for Cities"
Visitor Question: Our township in Pennsylvania just did a zoning ordinance rewrite. The township manager keeps saying it made just minor changes; yet they
Visitor Question: We live on a lake where about 50% of the houses around the lake are in one Village and the other 50% are in another Village. One of
Continue reading "Should only residents of the Village sign petition"
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