February 28, 2017 Welcome to Recognizing Community Sustainability Sponsors:
@APA_Planning @APAadvocates #APAlive 1.0 www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa
Important Dates April 17 – Tuesdays at APA with Enterprise Community Partners April 21-24 – NPC18 in New Orleans April 25 – 2018 Great Places in America submission deadline planning.org
APA Resources Bike Sharing (PAS QuickNotes 61) https://www.planning.org/media/document/9100472/ • Creative Placemaking ( PAS Memo, November 2016) • https://www.planning.org/pas/memo/2016/nov/ Inclusive Mobility ( Planning, February 2018) • https://www.planning.org/planning/2018/feb/inclusivemobility/ planning.org
A Lightning Presentation Night on Biking, Walking, and Citybuilding March 20, 2018
Anna Ray Community Activist and Connector
Food as Identity by Anna Ray
Siba El-Samra Landscape Designer/Planner Toole Design Group
Darren Buck Head of Complete Streets Program City of Alexandria
A virtuous bicycle Video: Morning Ebb & Flow, jim.slade on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/141516172
Image: Bay Weekly Online http://bayweekly.com/old-site/year03/issueXI02/leadXI02.html
Graph and image from Ocean Cove Seafood - http://oceancoveclams.com/
Image: Clark Vandergrift http://www.visitmaryland.org/list/15-golf-courses-maryland-you-have-play
Video: Florida Oceanographic Society https://youtu.be/saAy7GfLq4w
Image: Chesapeake Bay Program https://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/bernie_fowler_measures_a_sneaker_index_of_34_inches_at_annual_wade_in
Image: Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2013/11/oyster-farming-on-the-chesapeake-bay/#5
Chart: Chesapeake Bay Program https://www.chesapeakebay.net/state/underwater_grasses
Image: Dave Harp, Bay Journal https://www.bayjournal.com/article/average_dead_zone_expected_this_summer_despite_clearer_water
Image: Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/2012/12/the-oyster-harvest-in-the- chesapeake-bay-is-improving-with-reports-out-of-the-maryland-department-of-natural-resources-that.html
Image: Museum of the City of New York, via https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/wheelmen-of-19th-century-new-york/
Image: the Annandale Blog http://annandaleva.blogspot.com/2014/07/silver-line-adds-five-metro-stops-in.html
Image: Jonathan Maus/ BikePortland https://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/4973213624/in/photostream/
Image: People for Bikes https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/austins-quick-protected-lane-opens-a-bridge-to-student-biking/
Graph from 2014 Alliance for Biking and Walking Benchmarking Report
Image: From “Duck on a Bike” by David Shannon. Buy it! https://www.amazon.com/Duck-Bike-David-Shannon/dp/0439050235
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Rick Rybeck Director, Just Economics, LLC
If Smart Growth Is So Smart, How Come There’s So Much Dumb Growth? Reversing Economic Incentives for Sprawl APA March 20, 2018 Just Economics, LLC, 1669 Columbia Rd, NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20009 (202) 439-4176 www.justeconomicsllc.com r.rybeck@justeconomicsllc.com
OVERVIEW • The Perversity of Infrastructure • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished • The Role of Land Speculation • Land Value Creation & Consequences • Land Value Recycling for Sustainability & Equity
Perversity of Infrastructure: • Infrastructure is created to facilitate development. • But, it inflates the price of well-served land. • High land prices cause builders to develop cheaper but more remote sites. • We run after development with more infrastructure, but never catch up. • Ensuing sprawl harms the environment and impairs our budgets due to expensive infrastructure duplication.
“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” • To help low-income communities: • Improve the schools • Reduce Crime • Enhance Transit • If we accomplish any of these improvements, land prices rise, rents rise and the intended beneficiaries are displaced. • Tax dollars, intended to help the poor, end up enriching Landlords (who tend not to be poor).
LAND SPECULATION • The ability of private landowners to appropriate publicly- created land value is the fuel for land speculation • Land speculation creates nothing of value • Speculation does create • Artificial scarcity of developable land • Real increases in land prices • Periodic Real Estate Booms & Busts
INFLATED LAND PRICES • Housing Affordability Problems • Labor & Material Prices Track General Inflation (CPI) • Since WWII, Land Prices Increased TEN TIMES FASTER Than CPI • Sprawl • Inflated Land Prices Push Development to Cheaper, but more Remote Sites • Boom & Bust Cycles Create Hardships For Most • Speculators Outbid Land Users During Boom Times • Speculators Refuse to Sell At a Loss During Bust
LAND VALUE RETURN & RECYCLING PROMOTES AFFORDABLE SMART GROWTH • Did you learn something new about sprawl, affordable housing and job creation? • What are you going to do about it?
Kim Lucas Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Specialist District Department of Transportation
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Arlington County
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