RenewLV

03/04/2025

Chuck is joined by Seth Zeren, a neighborhood real estate developer, to discuss the six code reforms recommended in “The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform.” (Transcript included.)

09/16/2024

03/28/2024

The long-awaited Lehigh Valley passenger train study is in. It has identified the five most likely routes for restoring service between the Lehigh Valley and New York, Philadelphia and Reading.

Check back for updates. You can view the report here: https://trib.al/CI6HF1Q

02/01/2024

It’s been a dangerous couple years to be a pedestrian in the Lehigh Valley. The conversations need to change. Status quo isn’t working.

There’s no excuse: when members of a community see a dangerous street for what it is, it shouldn’t take a death (or several deaths) for the city to finally take action.

09/11/2023

Important report and model ordinance just issued by PennFuture on How-to-Protect-PA-Communities-and-Environment-from-Distribution-Center-Development

This provides good, practical information that local government officials and the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission can use to manage warehouse and distribution center growth.

PennFuture Releases Living With Logistics: A Model Logistics Use Zoning Ordinance for PA Municipalities to manage the influx of massive distribution centers

06/06/2023

Experts say low-income renters have been growing in number since the 2008 housing bubble popped.

05/14/2023

Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes. We're in a predicament.

04/12/2023

Development impact fees are supposed to “make development pay its own way.” But if your development pattern is fundamentally unproductive, they don’t. They’re a one-time cash hit in exchange for taking on a permanent liability.

04/02/2023

Want to do the kind of value-per-acre analysis that you’ve seen on Strong Towns before, but don’t think of yourself as a data wizard? Here’s a step by step guide for beginners.