Strongtowns

Strongtowns has been on a roll lately:

Nice piece on Trader Joe’s parking lots, and the illusions/delusions caused by widespread “free” parking. Few people would actually say “Shoppers who don’t drive to this store are already subsidizing those who do, but not nearly enough” and think they’re being reasonable, but when you complain about the small size and/or lack of room to maneuver in their parking lots, that’s essentially what you’re saying.

If you care about drunk driving, you should care quite a bit about the ways in which land use policy increases the likelihood and inevitability of it. If I were the king of the world, I’d eliminate parking minimums across the board immediately, but legally mandating sizeable parking lots for bars is a special kind of stupid.

The primary culprit for the profound and tragic shortage of housing in walkable urban neighborhoods (which is in spite of, not because of, consumer preferences) is local government but it turns out the Feds are contributing to the problem as well.

On the horrors of the suburbanization of poverty in Florida.