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Next big thing: green neighborhoods

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 11, 2010.

Green buildings are so 2000s. The next big thing for the 2010s? Green neighborhoods. The group that ushered in popular "LEED" standards to certify environmentally friendly buildings is expanding to green subdivisions and mixed-use projects.

Who's getting the Columbia bridge money?

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 10, 2010.

The biggest transportation project in our region's history is rich in cash and poor in consensus. Local and state officials are split on basic design issues in the plan to replace the I-5 bridge to Vancouver with a 10-lane freeway and light rail bridge. So who is getting rich while the project drags on?

By 2040 cycling will be easy...sort of

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 11, 2010.

If all goes according to plan, in a mere 30 years you might be able to ride a contiguous loop of bike paths around Lake Union, ride across the 520 bridge on your bike, and even ride all the way through Ballard on the Burke-Gilman trail without dodging cars and hopping train tracks.

Portland leaders support bikes, green streets

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 10, 2010.

The Portland City Council will greenlight spending $20 million in sewer money to help jumpstart the building of bike boulevards -- even as residents continue to pay some of the highest sewer bills in the country.

An Oregon city's innovative revitalization strategy

From Sprawl & Transportation News - Sightline Daily. Published on Mar 10, 2010.

A number of Oregon cities are tinkering with reduced or deferred development fees in order to drive the revitalization of dying downtowns. In Molalla, the plan's worked.