The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry (feat. ‪@NotJustBikes‬)

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CHANNELS THAT ARE BOTH GREAT AND RELEVANT :

• Not Just Bikes - notjustbikes

• City Beautiful - citybeautiful

ZONING STUFF YOU CAN DO

1) Join our Discord. Since there’s not a great/accessible database of everyone’s local zoning meetings (as far as we could find), we think it would be pretty slick to harness our community’s collective power to make it easier to get this information. We just created a channel called “#zoning” (  / discord  , where you can drop by and tell us how your local zoning meeting smelled, or share a link that we missed to help others affect change in their community. (And in case you’re like me from a month ago and have no idea how to use Discord, here’s a helpful beginner’s guide -   / discord   to-Discord)

2) Sign up for Public Comment Workshop from YIMBY Action - Feb 15, 2022 5pm Pacific: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis...

3) City Specific Zoning or Board Meeting Links:

• Los Angeles: https://planning.lacity.org/about/com...

• New York City: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cau/communi...

• Chicago: https://www.thecha.org/about/board-me...

4) Don’t see your city? They’re often hyper-local, a little hard to find, and go by different names. Search your ‘zip/town/city’ and these search terms: Community Board Meeting City Planning Board Meeting City Planning Commission Zoning Committee Meeting Community Engagement Meeting Public Consultation (Canada) YIMBY (Yes, In My Back Yard) Housing Reform Groups Density Advocacy

5) Join or donate to a zoning-focused organization:

• https://yimbyaction.org/2021/

• https://smartgrowthamerica.org/

• https://www.strongtowns.org/

• https://cayimby.org/ (California)

• https://abundanthousingla.org/ (Los Angeles)

• https://carlaef.org/ (California)

• https://www.opennewyork.city/ (NYC)

• https://yimbydenver.org/about-us/ (Denver)

• https://www.seattleforgrowth.org/ (Seattle)

• https://actionnetwork.org/groups/neig... (Atlanta)

• https://www.orlandoyimby.org/ (Orlando)

• https://www.desegregatect.org/ (Connecticut)

• https://ahvan.org/ (Vancouver)

• https://yimbyalliance.org/ (UK)

ARTICLES GALORE

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

• https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

• https://www.theamericanconservative.c...

• https://liherald.com/stories/hochul-e...

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

• https://www.theolympian.com/news/stat...

• https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/01/...

Sources & Citations

• Georgetown Public Policy Review on GH gases and zoning: http://gppreview.com/2019/11/05/green...

• ASCE Emissions Analysis: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%...

• Carbon & Road Construction: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

• City safety and density: https://science.time.com/2013/07/23/i...

• Household energy by density: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/1...

• R1 Zoning Impact: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

• An economic history of Zoning: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43100684

• New York Times on Zoning Reform: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

• Historical zoning:

  • Iowa Dept of public affairs: https://iowaculture.gov/history/educa...

  • UC Berkley https://escholarship.org/content/qt26...

  • KQED: https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/th...

Episode Credits

Written by Rollie Williams, Jason Slaughter, Ben Boult, Nicole Conlan

Shot by Nicole Conlan

Intro animation by Ian MK Cessna - ianhasawebsite.com

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