by John W. Olson | Aug 8, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Euclidean zoning codes have created numerous headaches for public and private planners, developers, property owners, architects, planning officials, contractors, and common community residents for several years now. The non-articulate language of the widely used code...
by John W. Olson | Jul 21, 2011 | Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Infill is one of those development terms that gets interpreted in a multitude of ways. I like to reference the definition supplied for the National Association of Realtors in the White Paper titled Best Practices to Encourage Infill Development written by Robinson...
by John W. Olson | Apr 11, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Salida was the home of our first day-long workshop for the CNU Colorado non-profit organization. The event was called Smart Growth in Small Towns & Rural Communities. It was a day rich with information from a wide spectrum of urbanists in Colorado. The...
by John W. Olson | Jan 31, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal
The evolution of the big box has become a fairly predictable life cycle for most cities across the country. Larger cities and their respective suburban communities were the first to realize that the expected life of the big box was short-lived. Wal-Mart appears to be...
by John W. Olson | Jan 24, 2011 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
Block patterns on aerial photographs can be quite telling in the evolution of cities. The image below can even appear as a timeline for Colorado Springs in the way that it has developed. The image below is of Platte Avenue in Colorado Springs, downtown Colorado...
by John W. Olson | Dec 17, 2010 | Comprehensive Planning and Codes, Sustainability, Town Planning, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Renewal, Urbanism
SUSTAINABILITY BIKE TOUR COLORADO SPRINGS, JUNE 26, 2010 Essay by Frank Kinder, USGBC Colorado – SoCo Branch & John Olson, CNU Colorado This past June, CNU Colorado teamed with APA Colorado, AIA Colorado, USGBC Colorado-Southern Branch and Bike Month in a...