Here's the audio from our April 2019 edition of Ask Strong Towns, a bimonthly webcast in which you can ask anything you want of our founder and president, Chuck Marohn, and our communications director, Kea Wilson.
Questions answered:
2:05: Strong Towns regularly advocates for street trees. The arguments made make sense, but I have yet to see my biggest concern about street trees addressed. Trees roots can wreak havoc on water and wastewater lines, creating huge repair costs. Are there strategies to plant new street trees while protecting the underground utility infrastructure?
9:55: How does a land value tax work in predominantly rural areas? How would it affect the taxing of agricultural land?
19:45: In our city, we are dusting off a tool we had on paper but have not used much in practice: our Land Bank. What does a Strong Towns approach to a Land Bank look like?
28:00: What is the definition of a vibrant Downtown and why is it important to have one?
38:50: Does the higher density of the traditional development pattern require urban infrastructure (water/sewer lines, complete streets networks, etc.) to function? If so, how does a rural town/area incrementally grow in the traditional development pattern without building pricey infrastructure first?
A Whole New Framework for Analyzing Car Crashes
This Is How the Strong Towns Movement Becomes “Unignorable”
The Power of Talking Locally Over the Noise of National Politics
The Strong Towns Strategy
Water System Crises and Solutions
The Highway Boondoggles Report
What Customer Service Should Mean for a City
Hawaii’s Suburban Experiment
The Jackson Water Crisis Is Not a Fluke—Your City Could Be Next
Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns Discuss Public Transit in North America
“Bias Writ Large” in the Property Tax Assessment System
One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made
The Drip, Drip, Drip of Traffic Deaths
An Update on Strong Towns’ Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure
Majora Carter: Reclaiming Your Community
Nolan Gray: Exposing the Arbitrariness of Zoning Codes
End the Parking Mandates and Subsidies That Are Hurting Our Cities
Legalizing Incremental Change—Everywhere—To Meet America’s Housing Needs
Your City’s Accounting Is Unnecessarily Obscure. It’s Time To Pull Back the Veil.
America *Must* End Highway Expansions, Before It’s Too Late
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