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Interesting! The Great Saunter event, a 32-mile grand loop walk around the edges Manhattan. Increasingly, with the completion of pathways encircling the island, this kind of trek can become more broadly enabled. (In her piece, "Great Saunter Tips from Decades of Walking Around Manhattan" Sarah Milstein mentions that more segments of established pathways around the edges are falling into place.) Terrific to see the proliferation of these kinds of events, and, in the process, communities building this kind of walking green infrastructure! https://lnkd.in/gpE-C9F5

An excellent overview and explanation of what this project could mean for residents in the north. https://lnkd.in/gG9AJunb

Our CEO, Martin Sampson, spoke with Global News about the importance of Recreation and Parks Month in June. In the interview, Martin highlights how recreation and parks contribute to creating vibrant, resilient, and healthy communities. He also discusses the critical role that recreation professionals play in maintaining these valuable community assets. Martin addresses some of the evolving challenges the sector faces, and emphasizes that the scope of recreation is expanding, and CPRA is actively working to adapt and meet these new demands. Watch the full interview to learn more about the significance of Recreation and Parks month:

We’re proud to present the City of Reno’s video annual report, showcasing some of the tremendous work happening behind the scenes. Under the direction and steadfast leadership of the Reno City Council, this video highlights how your tax dollars are being put to good use! Key Highlights include: 🚧 Infrastructure Improvements: 755 miles of roads maintained, major street rehab projects, and upgrades to public lift stations. 🏊♂️ Moana Springs Community Aquatics and Fitness Center: A new hub for health and recreation featuring a 50-meter competition pool. 🏘 Housing Assistance: A total of $3.2 million in rental aid was provided to 1,246 households, with 1,326 affordable housing units supported. 👮♂️ 👨🚒 Public Safety: The Reno Police Department launched the Directed Engagement, Enforcement, and Deployment Strategy program, also known as DEEDS, which is a data-driven initiative aimed at reducing crime and improving safety. Additionally, the Reno Fire Department responded to over 50,000 calls and Reno Dispatch answered over 500,000 calls. 🌳 Revitalization Efforts: Continued investment in downtown revitalization projects aimed at improving public spaces and attracting new businesses. View more: https://lnkd.in/eGf5ahKj

Talking about the proposed new city in Solano County, and how to design cities of the future - my segment begins at 19:15 (should have mentioned vertical mobility, but food, waste, water, energy were all part of the discussion). https://lnkd.in/gYVJJYX4

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🏖 Come along for a ride down Pebble Beach's 17 Mile Drive to see how California is adopting the Passive House standard of #efficiencyfirst 🏡 TOMORROW, MARCH 19TH FROM 12-1 --> Join Bronwyn Barry for our monthly community meeting, as she goes over: 1. The five basic Passive House principles 2. The specific building assembly details that meet Passive House performance targets for Monterey California. 3. Basic embodied carbon footprint assessment results using a real case study of a passive house built in Pebble Beach. 4. Lessons learned for designing high performance buildings in a mild climate.

It was an important week for us as the California Coastal Commission considered and approved the County of Marin's short term rental regulations. In west Marin, community life and visitor access are inseparable. We wanted to keep the benefits of STR while limiting the likelihood that full-time commercial STR would continue to eat into scare housing stock. Where did we land? Cap STRs at around their current level, phase them out of more affordable housing types, and - most importantly - allow only one STR per operator. Our team thought this strategy would meet our goals in an effective way and happily the Commission did too! There was a lot of interest in having no limits on "hosted" STRs. We didn't go that route because of the enforcement challenge. This is a strategy that can work for renting of someone's primary/main residence, but it just doesn't fit in a place like coastal Marin with its very high share of vacation properties. We'll keep assessing whether treating hosted STRs differently than unhosted can be useful or effective for us. Final thought, the landscape of STR and housing in general is a rapidly changing one. I firmly believe in tracking the outcome of policy moves and revisiting if needed. That's all the more important for something like this issue and why we'll be doing an assessment 2 years after the new regulations are in place. Gift link to news article provided, if you want to learn more. https://lnkd.in/gPcyVzTR #marin #coastalaccess #coastalcommission #community #housing #STR

The summer road renewal programme and how roadworks may impact you. https://lnkd.in/gi-R_dyE

To me, this "build a new city on farmland in northern California" plan is a product of anti-systemic thinking. The reasons cities "don't work" is that they are part of a larger socio-economic political system that is dysfunctional... driven by Wall Street greed as much as anything else. This is a variation on Elon Musk's "Let's go to Mars" thinking... the desire to leave what doesn't work behind and go someplace where a fresh start is possible. But by being part of California (and of the USA and of the world), this plan will not be able to avoid the macro-systemic dysfunctional reality we currently suffer from. This is a misguided vision built on the desire to "create a better, new system to replace the old" as Buckminster Fuller said we should do. But Bucky's vision acknowledged we are part of a larger system. He sought to transform that system... not escape it. #CaliforniaForever PS No where in this report is there any mention of using sustainable, green building design methods. So (unless the subject never came up and they do have such plans), William McDonough should have been involved in this project. Of course, he'd probably have told them what I just mentioned above. #SustainableDevelopment Gil Friend Dale Biron John Elkington Marcia Daszko Dr. Mukhles Rahman, DTM Larry Starr Amy Edmondson John Pourdehnad Bob Leonard