Edward Erfurt || Engaging Local Government Effectively || Strong Towns Office Hours

Описание: About Office Hours
Our door is wide open once a week for Strong Towns members to come and discuss how to build resilience and prosperity in their communities. Each week will focus on a different topic with a member of the Strong Towns team. The tone is casual and conversational. Drop in late if you need to; you’ll be just as welcome.

Most Wednesdays at 1 p.m. ET on Zoom
Submit your questions and ideas for topics in advance as you register, or ask them on the fly. Just so you know, pre-submitted questions and topics will be given priority during the conversation.

RECOMMENDED READING
Great article on the mindset of a local advocate: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...


Schedule & Registration Details Are Available Here: https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/...

Sketches of Shenandoah by Edward Erfurt (posted 1/13/23) - National parks and auto-oriented culture, less related to local government but still one of my favorite articles Ed has written - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

A Massive Top-Down Plan to Fix a Massive Top-Down Mistake by Edward Erfurt (posted 12/16/22) - Kansas City redevelopment opportunities and recommendations; great graphics in this one! https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

Recovering the Lost Art of Mixed-Use Development by Edward Erfurt (posted 12/2/22) - I think this is a great article to help build your vocabulary around development, something that is always useful when engaging government representatives and other professionals
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

These 3 Cities Are Eliminating Parking Minimums. Are They Going About It the Right Way? - This is an episode of Upzoned where Chuck and Edward are the guests - this was taped and released before Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2022.    • These 3 Cities Are Eliminating Parking Min...  

Questions
1. Are there ways to “reverse” the financial hole that many towns have dug themselves into? - from John Suter
Transparent Local Accounting https://www.strongtowns.org/accounting

2. How should small towns [and their residents] handle large transport trucks that drive through their main streets and place strain on local road infrastructure? - from Gail Mc

Road Diets https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

3. In my region, suburbs are swallowing rural towns. Since these towns don't control regional expansion trends, how do modern rural towns incrementally build a traditional city from scratch if you can’t start with dirt roads and outhouses? - from Stephen Jacques

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

4. What STRONG TOWNS steps could be taken to PREVENT yet another suburban experiment, likely to undermine a community’s future prosperity that does not impede on property rights? From Jean Schewenessen

5. Can you speak a little on alternatives to traffic studies and traffic impact analyses? - from Erick Aune

Widening Project Threatens 30 year old farmers market https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Power of Grided Streets https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Optimizing the Street Grid http://andrewalexanderprice.com/blog2...

6. How can we mitigate gentrification? (Especially since displacement disproportionately affects POC and low-income families) - from Laura Nakamura

Gentrification and Displacement Resources
https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/...

7. How to abolish parking minimums in smaller towns? - from Jeff McKenna

Every City Should Abolish Parking Minumums https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
Parking is more than a number https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...