en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Sprawl & Transportation headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 With no fast food restaurants or big box stores, the bicycle and pedestrian friendly Cowichan Bay in British Columbia has become North America's first Slow City. An offshoot of the Slow Food movement, it's a quiet resistance to drive-thru homogenization. http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00047&segmentID=4 Climate Economy Environment Food & Farms Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living British Columbia 11/22/2009 Living on Earth More than 9,400 of the nation's 25,000 sewage systems have reported dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous materials into rivers and lakes and elsewhere. As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23sewer.html?_r=1 Environment Pollution & Toxics Sprawl & Transportation Water United States 11/23/2009 New York Times Metropolitan King County Council members say they've figured out how to maintain existing bus service for two more years - instead of cutting service 9 percent as earlier proposed. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010333994_metrobus23m.html Economy Sprawl & Transportation Washington 11/23/2009 Seattle Times For more than 20 years, San Francisco planners have nudged the city's burgeoning financial center towards these principles: don't drive cars, make street-level life more appealing, and let the skyline rip with ultra-tall high-rises. Now they've tweaked that thinking with intriguing specifics, including a "crown" of 1000-foot-tall towers. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/22/EDOV1ANU5J.DTL&feed=rss.opinion Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living California 11/22/2009 San Francisco Chronicle Vancouver, BC, is opting for denser communities at the expense of open public spaces in its bid to become the world's greenest city by 2020. http://www.vancouversun.com/Vancouver+city+council+pushes+densification+False+Creek/2238781/story.html Sprawl & Transportation British Columbia 11/19/2009 Vancouver Sun Vancouver's city council has unanimously endorsed a plan to create a high-density neighbourhood with a civic plaza, residential and office space on the final undeveloped section of the former Expo lands. What it doesn't include is the 2.75 acres of park space per 1,000 people that city council holds as a goal. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver+council+endorses+high+density+development+plan/2234576/story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3a+canwest%2fF229+(Vancouver+Sun+-+News)&utm_content=Google+Reader Environment Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living British Columbia 11/18/2009 Vancouver Sun One of the first travel companies to offer airline customers the option of buying so-called carbon offsets to counter theit planet-warming emissions has canceled the program. While it might help travelers feel virtuous, the offsets were not helping to reduce global emissions and might even encourage people to travel more. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/science/earth/18offset.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living United States 11/17/2009 New York Times There's a potential milestone in the decades-long search for a replacement for the SR-520 bridge over Lake Washington, but a coalition of Seattle neighborhoods is vowing to torpedo it. A proposal approved Tuesday calls for widening the freeway and adding a second drawbridge in Montlake. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kplu/news.newsmain/article/0/13/1579231/Top.Stories/New.520.Interchange.Would.Add.Second.Montlake.Drawbridge Sprawl & Transportation Washington 11/17/2009 KPLU A smelly and potentially dangerous problem with failing septic systems in Jackson County, OR, soon could be resolved for up to 1,603 rural property owners, with a blanket exception to state planning goals that make it difficult to provide sewer service outside urban areas. http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091117/NEWS02/911170312 Environment Food & Farms Sprawl & Transportation Oregon 11/17/2009 Ashland Daily Tidings