@JoeUrbanThree

Urban designer doing some math and visualizing data.

 Asheville, NC
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Joined August 2011
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Another great piece by @JeffSpeckFAICP ! Is It Time to Retire National Walk to Work Day? nextcity.org/urbanist-news/i…

Is It Time to Retire National Walk to Work Day?

Op-ed: Only 1 in 37 Americans walk to work, and for good reason. We should focus on making walking possible.

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Andy Boenau
@Boenau5 Mar 2023
Straight out of the old advertising messaging strategy: "the more you spend, the more you save!" landroverhuntvalley.com/busi… Don't ask if you need a vehicle over 6,000 lbs. Just buy it because you'll get a tax break. Amazing.

Business Tax Advantage | Land Rover Hunt Valley

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Joe Minicozzi@JoeUrbanThree5 Mar 2023
Replying to @Boenau
@Boenau Google “range rover tax break” and check out the law that supports it. There’s a policy reason why there are more of these 6k lb vehicles around. Dothemath!
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Accountability and culture change is needed.
Jeff Speck
@JeffSpeckFAICP11 Feb 2023
PLEASE READ AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE. thehill.com/opinion/finance/…

Secretary Pete’s safe streets plan won’t succeed if engineers continue business as usual

The problem is not just a few streets, but rather an entrenched apparatus of practices and standards that actively welcome dangerous driving.

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PLEASE read this post! Many people who want to change things for the better in their place want an example of another ... strongtowns.org/journal/2023…

The Question I Get Most Often

Many people who want to change things for the better in their place want an example of another town or city that’s already got it all figured out—somewhere they can copy. Here’s why that won’t...

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Today we are recording an episode featuring @JoeUrbanThree and the property tax equity analysis his company has pioneered. Tune in at 3:30 pm ET for our Facebook Live broadcast (link below). facebook.com/planningpodcast
Planetizen
@planetizen2 Dec 2022
Want planning analysis in audio form? Give the @PlanningCommish podcast a follow. #FollowFriday
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E tu Asheville with I26
Jeff Speck
@JeffSpeckFAICP14 Dec 2022
We’ve reached peak self-delusion when the construction of massive highways is trumpeted as a fuel- and climate-saving act. No highway expansion has ever done anything but the opposite.
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Be sure to share the good news and encourage other experts to chime in to support! @DonaldShoup @stevemouzon @hblackson @clmarohn @JoeUrbanThree
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Jeff Speck
@JeffSpeckFAICP6 Dec 2022
IF YOU READ ONE THING TODAY. This is the most important article I’ve written. If you won’t read it, please unfollow me. I am no use to you. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

How to Fix the Most Dangerous Streets in America

The multilane arterials known as “stroads” remain dangerous fixtures of US cities. In an excerpt from his book Walkable City, planner Jeff Speck outlines how to tame them.

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Meanwhile NCDOT is preparing mostly 8 lanes in Asheville (pop 90k) while Milwaukee (pop 569k) pushes to do no more than 6 lanes. #sad
Strong Towns@StrongTowns29 Nov 2022
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Documents here: bit.ly/3VidNm2 "A resolution calling upon the WisDOT to reconstruct Interstate 94 (I-94) between 70th Street and 16th Street within its current footprint with six lanes, or "Fix at Six," and opposing the eight-lane alternative..."
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Construction of I95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's black community in Overtown, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.
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Stroads are scary! @StrongTowns @clmarohn
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This system need to change, and shame on Buncombe for dragging their feet. planetizen.com/news/2022/09/…

How Tax Assessments in a Supposedly Progressive County Are Reinforcing Racism

Buncombe County in North Carolina was one of the first places in the U.S. to support reparations for Black residents. So why is the county not doing a better job of addressing property tax inequities...

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Urban3@UrbanThree11 Oct 2022
Chk out @JoeUrbanThree's prez for @1000FriendsofFl re: how we can use simple math to calculate development impact costs on communities. He also speaks to the many ways municipalities lose needed tax revenues from single family developments. 1000fof.org/upcoming-webinar…
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Andy Boenau
@Boenau30 Sep 2022
Transpo Dept: - We designed this at 10mph above the speed limit. - Everybody's driving 10mph above the speed limit. - We recommend raising the speed limit. - We now recommend re-designing the road to be 10mph above the new speed limit.
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Not much has changed.
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇@grescoe16 Sep 2022
Replying to @grescoe
These illustrations from Kenneth Schneider's 1971 classic Autokind v. Mankind
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Hayden
@the_transit_guy7 Sep 2022
It is unconscionable that a city of 900,000 people has a downtown that's essentially a parking lot. (Columbus, OH)
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Where’s urban renewal, when you need it? Mansion Blight: How the Most Expensive Homes Drain Community Wealth strongtowns.org/journal/2022…

Mansion Blight: How the Most Expensive Homes Drain Community Wealth

Mansions on large lots, not rundown properties in low-socioeconomic-status neighborhoods, are the real blight on a community’s financial health.

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Did you know that mansions lose value faster than regular houses?
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