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A Comprehensive Plan for Bensenville
CNT Releases Analysis of Demographic Change Near the Region’s Transit Stations
The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) recently released Transit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region: Efficient and Resilient Communities for the 21 st Century . The report analyzes population and employment change from 2000-10 within one-half mile of the region’s rail transit stations as compared to the region as a whole, as well as four peer regions (New York, Philadelphia,...
Springfield Snapshot, April 29-May 2, 2013
Both the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate were in session this week. Four weeks remain in this legislative session, and bills need to have advanced to the other chamber or received an extension from leadership to advance through the legislative process. Bills also must advance out of second chamber committees by Friday, May 10, 2013. The following Policy...
A Plan for Downtown Riverside
White House Releases FY 2014 Budget Proposal
On April 10, 2013, President Obama released his budget proposal for federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. Over the next ten years, the budget would increase revenues by about $1.1 trillion and cut ten-year spending by $265 billion, thereby reducing the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion compared to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) baseline projections. CMAP is monitoring the...
CDOT Releases Complete Streets Design Guidelines
On April 13, 2013, the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) released its new Complete Streets Design Guidelines . The “complete streets” movement emphasizes designing roadways for use by all modes, including transit, bicycle, and pedestrian. The guidelines contain four key themes to institutionalize complete streets into CDOT’s activities. The first theme...
A Zoning Ordinance for Berwyn
A Comprehensive Plan for Elmwood Park
Single-Family Housing Tenure Changes in the CMAP Region
Since the housing crisis began, many for-sale single-family homes (SFHs) in the region have become rental units or are now vacant. This has diverse implications for how the region’s communities recover from the housing crisis and manage a housing stock that has traditionally been owner-occupied. Recent data from the American Community Survey (ACS), which provides a rolling...
Housing Policy Update -- Trends of the Third Quarter of 2012
NOTE: This is the second in an on-going series of Housing Policy Updates. Regional housing market trends during the third quarter of 2012 continued to mirror those found in the first half of the year , with growing permits and housing starts counterbalanced by a continued, but slowing, annual decline in existing home values. The region also continues to return to pre-recession...
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The LTA home page has details of activities sponsored by the HUD Sustainable Communities grant to CMAP for support of community projects that advance the principles of GO TO 2040. In our second call for projects through the Local Technical Assistance (LTA) program, CMAP received over 100 proposals from more than 80 applicants. View the press release and summary of selected projects.
An interactive map of local case studies describes projects and people that exemplify the goals and objectives of GO TO 2040.
CMAP's Local Ordinances and Toolkits program provides resources to municipalities interested in pursuing policies that are aligned with GO TO 2040 recommendations.
