A shortage of parking spaces can certainly be a hassle, but parking for cars shouldn’t be the priority in development plans.
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Despite our big challenges, there are things we can do to improve the safety of our roads and make Baton Rouge more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly.
A number of studies indicate that the single most telling determinant of your health is your ZIP code. Where you live has everything to do with how healthy you are.
Our focus in 2019 is on identifying the specific changes that must take place to create the many facets of resilience that we need — and then putting them into action.
East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority’s president Chris Tyson talks about Baton Rouge’s development deserts and the need for equitable growth.
Neighborhoods are segregated because of explicit government policy over the course of many decades in the 20th century that ensured African-Americans and whites could not live in the same neighborhoods.
When we design for everyone, we make better decisions. We design a better system.
If small towns don’t find ways to fund resilience planning, they will not be able to transform themselves into the place where the next generation is going to want to live and make a family.
We should be playing offense to make sure that the residents, small-business owners and people that live, work and play in a particular area get to benefit from all the new things and the new prosperity that comes from gentrifying a community.