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The Salem News reported that Danvers voted overwhelmingly to rezone the downtown and High Street corridor south of Porter Street to Rte. 128.

"It will create predictability with development for the next 30 years and I urge you to support it," said Dan Bennett, chairman of the Board of Selectman. The extensive new rules and design guidelines would ensure that development would not go on in a vacuum as it has in the past.

Planning Board Chairman Bill Prentiss said the work over the past 18 months by the Planning Board and the Planning Department, and its consultant Ted Brovitz, was a continuation of an effort started in 2006 to look at industrial areas in and around the downtown that date back to the original zoning code of 1946."

Read The Salem News article Danvers remakes its downtown 

 "Greater Boston is thriving... Can Greater Boston reap the rewards of a booming economy without sacrificing the people who are just trying to live there?"

WalletHub ranked 100 U.S. cities across three dimensions:  accessibility and convenience, safety and reliability, and public transit resources. You may be surprised at Boston's rank.

Reprinted in Metro mag:  https://www.metro-magazine.com/management-operations/news/735547/2019-s-cities-with-the-best-and-worst-public-transportation?utm_source=email&utm_medium=enewsletter&utm_campaign=20200117-NL-MET-Trending-BOBCD200111008&omdt=NL-MET-Trending&omid=1102541393&oly_enc_id=9241D0898712E7T 

Boston Cyberarts Gallery usually leans toward the future. In this exhibition, curators Mark Favermann, Keaton Fox, and George Fifield look to technologies of yesteryear, spotlighting contemporary works in art and design intended to provoke marvel, which are mechanical or animated by natural phenomena such as gravity and wind. 

Through Feb. 16. Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain. 617-524-2109, www.bostoncyberarts.org

"It seems to be an article of faith among some urban planners that transit can’t be private. If it’s to serve poor demographics and remote areas, the thinking goes, it needs heavy public planning and subsidization. But that view turns out to be parochial. Cities worldwide—including in the US—have proven that with the right conditions, private transit can flourish. It often does so in spite of attempts by the government itself to shut these services down."

https://marketurbanismreport.com/blog/peseros-the-vast-private-bus-network-of-mexico-city?fbclid=IwAR18JtxXFVv_GkfmUxwfJRjET2vn0MsGd-kUZBH3baxEEqXNOMT_sEb4NtM

1. From NIMBY to YIMBY

2. Mitigation and Adaptation

3. Tactical Urbanism

4. Social Equity in Planning

5. Shared Cities

6. The Era of Big Data

https://www.planning.org/blog/9192292/10-years-of-transformation-6-ways-planning-changed-in-2010s/

The city of Milwaukee will require new commercial developments to include a 15-foot "street frontage zone" to encourage walking.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/107689?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-12192019&mc_cid=43c2f08163&mc_eid=b9p0fICGm0

"How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented - and corrupted."

https://thenib.com/jane-jacobs-vs-the-power-brokers

"The Pacific Northwest is leading the way for bicycle safety at the state level, according to the latest report from the League of American Bicyclists."

https://www.planetizen.com/node/107489?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news-12052019&mc_cid=a99aa219f5&mc_eid=b9p0fICGm0

https://www.itemlive.com/2019/12/03/lynn-city-council-votes-to-fund-two-planners/