http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.4/the-paradox-of-the-housing-boom-and-bust Outside Delta, Colo sits yet another rural subdivision that was never completed -- a sign of the West's housing bust and of the difficulty of regulating rural growth. No publisher Paul Larmer Delta, Colorado sprawl Teton County planning regulations real estate boom zoning Allen Best Idaho rural development real estate bust 2012-03-02T18:02:42Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.3/how-arizonas-culture-helped-shape-the-shooting-of-gabrielle-giffords If you want to understand why Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others at a Tucson Safeway in 2011, look to Arizona’s soulless culture and vitriolic politics. No publisher Tom Zoellner development sprawl Arizona politics state budget cuts Arizona culture mental illness Tucson Safeway shooting Jared Lee Loughner Tucson suburbs political violence Gabrielle Giffords guns Jan Brewer 2012-02-27T15:16:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-adolescent-west Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up. No publisher Dennis Hinkamp Logan, Utah sprawl growth and planning development Small towns 2011-06-27T22:10:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/green-new-urbanist-development-rises-in-albuquerque-suburbs An ambitious green development is in the works on Mesa del Sol just outside of Albuquerque, N.M. No publisher Stan Alcorn development sprawl New Urbanism Mesa del Sol Peter Calthorpe planning Albuquerque Aquifer 2011-04-12T21:37:20Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/the-growth-machine-is-broken Phoenix land-use planners want to use a chunk of state trust land as a laboratory for future, more sustainable real estate development. No publisher John Dougherty development sprawl Grady Gammage Phoenix Sonoran Institute Superstition Vistas land-use planning economic crisis 2010-02-05T08:58:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.7/surprise Surprise, Ariz., exemplifies the Arizona real estate collapse along with what many see as the rise and fall of the car-dependent Western exurb. No publisher Rob Inglis and Jonathan Thompson development sprawl economic crisis Phoenix land-use planning exurbs 2010-02-05T08:32:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16181 Realtors seem to be everywhere in the West today – including community politics No publisher M. John Fayhee Politics Elected Officials Communities in Transition Real estate realtors conflict of interest small town government mayors Eagle County Colorado Grant County Board of Realtors Billy Donnel Silver City New Mexico economic development sprawl public policy Salt Lake Tribune Utah Association of 2010-02-05T08:57:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16108 In Riverside County, Calif., the conflict between the Endangered Species Act’s critical habitat rule and the West’s booming, sprawling, growth-driven economy comes to a head No publisher Tony Davis Communities Land Use and Planning Threatened and Endangered Endangered Species Act critical habitat real estate development growth sprawl U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service San Jacinto Valley crownscale endangered plants multi-species habitat conservation plans threatened species Richard Pombo environmental 2010-02-05T08:56:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/314/16061 In Requiem for the West, Roger Brown laments the loss of soul and solitude in the small mountain towns of the Colorado Rockies No publisher Paul Anderson Roger Brown Requiem for the West Dick Lamm small towns Rocky Mountains memoir personal history Roan Plateau elk development subdivisions wildlife change sprawl mountain living book reviews self-published books Communities in Transition 2010-02-05T08:56:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15908 A land-exchange plan especially designed for California’s Eastern Sierra could help prevent development controversies such as the current one over the proposed Whitney Portal project near scenic Lone Pine No publisher Emma Brown Land Use And Planning Lone Pine California Eastern Sierra land swaps land exchanges scenic landscapes Whitney Portal Preserve development sprawl luxury homes Jim Walters Richard Cervantes Mammoth Lakes Mono County Save Round Valley Alliance Jennifer Fenton Bill 2010-02-05T08:31:37Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15903 Westerners may love their cars, but the region’s rapid growth means that even the most ardent car-lovers have a stake in mass transit, and in Denver’s grand experiment in light rail No publisher Paul Larmer Transportation Land Use And Planning Automobiles cars transportation highways traffic mass transit commuting trains light rail population growth demographics Denver Colorado commuter rail Brookings Institution construction suburbia new urbanism planning land use sprawl d 2010-02-05T08:31:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15809 In the city of Albuquerque, underdog candidate Eric Griego, a critic of sprawl, challenges incumbent Mayor Marty Chavez, a pro-growth booster No publisher Laura Paskus Communities Land Use And Planning Elections Albuquerque New Mexico Martin Chavez Eric Griego sprawl development growth land use and planning elections mayors cities campaign finance reform minimum wage Montano Bridge Petroglyph National Monument Albuquerque West Side city councils 2010-02-05T09:26:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15621 The death of her old horse, Fury, leads a northern Colorado writer to think about the changing aspects – and the unchanging quirkiness – of her old hometowns of Bellvue and LaPorte No publisher Laura Pritchett Communities In Transition LaPorte Bellvue Colorado horses childhood memories changing communities small towns rural lifestyle neighbors disputes arguments sprawl development newcomers Old West New West horseback riding 2010-02-05T09:25:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15614 A rocky western escarpment and the Petroglyph National Monument have long held back Albuquerque’s sprawl, but now the Volcano Heights development is coming, and a controversial road through the monument may be built No publisher Hilary watts Parks And Monuments Inholdings And Development Archaeology Petroglyphs Land Use And Planning Albuquerque New Mexico Petroglyph National Monument sprawl growth development Volcano Heights Paseo del Norte land use planning subdivisions Michael Cadigan real estate Dolph Barnhouse 1000 Friends of New Mexico National Historic Preservati 2010-02-05T09:25:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15534 The time is ripe for moderate reform of the conservation easement system No publisher Paul Larmer Land Use And Planning Land trusts conservation easements sprawl development planning land use open space preservation real estate Lincoln Land Policy Institute Jeff Pidot wildlife habitat tax breaks federal tax credits 2010-02-05T09:24:52Z News Article