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Texas adopts CNU's context-sensitive streets guidance
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 9:59pm.As most people in the CNU family know, Texas has become the first state officially to adopt the comprehensive set of context-sensitive street design guidelines written by the CNU and the Institute of
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Public comments window open for fire code proposals
Submitted by Jon Davis on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 10:29pm.CNU went 1-for-2 at the International Code Council’s fire code hearings in October 2009, but as ... read more »
CNU at the fire code hearings: Here we go...
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 2:51pm.BALTIMORE -- CNU’s proposed changes to the International Fire Code will be heard and either approved or rejected within the next two hou
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CNU's fire code proposals up today in Baltimore; watch the hearings online
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 4:14pm.BALTIMORE – The International Code Council hearings are an arena in which the (mostly) irresistible force of brevity meets the immovable agenda: hundreds of proposed additions, deletions, correct
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Use the Stimulus to Make Transportation More Like the Internet: John Norquist in Planetizen
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 8:54pm.While the Obama Administration is readying to harness the power of the internet and social media, it should put the same principles to work to improve our transportation systems with the stimulus bill
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Battling City Hall on Narrow Streets & Alleys
Submitted by mhathorne on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 8:37pm.I would be very interested to learn from others how to deal with local government on the issue of narrow streets and alleys.
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Learn More! Viriginia's Secondary Street Acceptance Requirements (Proposed)
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 5:25pm.This Powerpoint presentation from VA Asst.
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Emergency Response & Street Design Initiative getting noticed
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 9:33pm.The Smart Growth Network has taken notice of the CNU/EPA Smart Growth Streets and Emergency Responders Workshop.... read more »
CNU XVI – The Art and Science of Great Streets
Submitted by Chris Clair on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 5:39am.One of the many good things about CNU XVI was that there was so much going on, so many good panels, that it was easy to find interesting topics about which to write.
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More sprinklers, narrower streets?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sat, 04/12/2008 - 1:09pm.Sprinklers are the key to greater flexibility from the fire service, says Capt. Frank Kinnier, an assistant fire marshal with Chesterfield County (Va.) Fire & EMS.
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