by meg | Jan 14, 2018 | Planning & Design, Regulation & Education
It’s easy to take Fort Collins for granted. When I ride to the store, I don’t have to worry about where I’ll park my bike. There’s almost always a bike rack nearby. When I take a walk, there are usually decent sidewalks the whole way. Trees...
by meg | Sep 27, 2017 | Built Environment, Growth & Density, Regulation & Education
Have you ever wondered how the Fort Collins occupancy ordinance (commonly known as U + 2) compares to other cities? Well, wonder no longer. The following two tables give brief summaries of occupancy regulations from around Colorado as well as from other communities...
by meg | Sep 8, 2017 | Bikes & Peds, Regulation & Education, Transportation
Oh, to be a kid again. I used to play all sorts of games of pretend when I was young. When I was in elementary school, we lived in a small town just outside of metro Boston and I spent a lot of time exploring, imagining, and riding my bike. There’s something...
by meg | Apr 4, 2016 | Bikes & Peds, Regulation & Education, Safety, Transportation
Safe Routes to School is a national movement that began at the Federal level in 2006 “to improve the health and well-being of children by enabling and encouraging them to walk and bicycle to school.” How this is achieved depends on what’s going on at...
by meg | Apr 3, 2016 | Regulation & Education
By the time my kids reached fourth or fifth grade, they started to ask if they could travel to school on their own. It’s one of those painful moments that parents have to face where we know all the dangers… all the things that could go wrong… and yet...
