Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability

Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability explores the relationship between unused parking and neighborhood affordability. Many cities, including Chicago, mandate the minimum number of parking spaces new developments need to build. As the report points out,...Read more

Topics:
Transit-Oriented Development, Transportation + Community Development

RainReady Midlothian Plan

What would a RainReady Midlothian look like? It would be a community where residents and businesses benefit from flood relief in a way that also brings neighborhood beautification, retail activity, jobs, recreation, and habitat conservation.

In order to better...Read more

Topics:
RainReady, Urban Flooding, Water

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

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) has helped chart a new framework for regional development focused on underutilized land in existing communities and anchored by walkable neighborhoods, transit, and freight. This report reveals that the transportation projects we’re funding...Read more

Topics:
Transit-Oriented Development

Freight Train to Community Prosperity: Metrics for the Integration of Community Economic Development and Efficient Freight Movement

In this report, CNT proposes metrics to assess the feasibility and performance of cargo-oriented development (COD) , a form of development that integrates freight system efficiencies with the development of manufacturing and logistics businesses in ways that drive local...Read more

Topics:
Cargo-Oriented Development