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Opinion: Give These Iowa City Streets a Diet Next
A road diet is a low-cost traffic management strategy that reduces the number of travel lanes present on a street to lower traffic speeds and improve the street’s overall safety. Three Iowa City street segments are good candidates for road diet projects that would transform roadways into community assets.
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Analysis: Iowa City’s Title 14 Zoning Amendments
While an end to the ever-destructive, exclusionary single-family zoning practice and increased flexibility for more affordable housing types is laudable, many of these amendments are ultimately impeded by other elements of the zoning code and the city’s 2013 Comprehensive Plan. The Title 14 Amendments are, in the end, a limited first step in encouraging a…
