by meg | Oct 30, 2017 | Built Environment, Planning & Design
Have you ever walked into a place and felt an immediate sense of welcoming or belonging? Or perhaps as you entered you were instead hit with bewilderment or a sense of unease. You might not have any idea why you felt the way you did. Or you may have attributed that...
by meg | Feb 4, 2017 | Built Environment, Ideas from elsewhere, Planning & Design, Transportation
For the past few years I’ve been attending a conference in February called Saving Places. While historic preservation is the main focus of the event, a wide variety of urban development topics tend to surface including local economics, place building, and...
by meg | Jan 19, 2017 | Bikes & Peds, Built Environment, Planning & Design, Transportation
Olive Street, between College and Mason, used to be a residential block. The Armstrong hotel first opened in 1923, but there were still mansions between downtown and the hotel along College Avenue and there were still houses on Olive and Mason on that block....
by meg | Dec 7, 2016 | Built Environment, Car Parking, Infrastructure, Planning & Design, Transportation
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ― Warren Buffett Fort Collins is a city that understands the value of a good...
by meg | Nov 7, 2016 | Built Environment, Car Parking, Planning & Design, Transportation
The city of Fort Collins has a whole lotta parking. In fact, it has so much parking, that any time I want to go anywhere, I can assume that there will be a parking spot at my destination just waiting for my car to fill it. Even downtown there are only a few times of...
by meg | Nov 1, 2016 | Built Environment, Growth & Density, Planning & Design
There are problems that Fort Collins is facing that Midtown can solve. Lack of affordable housing — there’s room to build that in Midtown. Increasing congestion and traffic on busy arterials — we already have multi-modal transportation systems in...
