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LivXplore Podcast

I was recently asked to participate in a podcast with [...]

By pcfritz|2023-12-21T21:11:35+00:00December 21, 2023|Categories: Accessory Dwelling Units, Background, bike lanes, biking, Downtown Development, Housing, pedestrian connections, urban design, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Vitality, walkable streets, walking, zoning|Tags: 15-minute cities, ADUs, affordable housing, human places, infill development, land use, Sebastopol, small town, The Barlow, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Parking Opportunities

Parking Opportunities

It is common to hear how difficult it is to [...]

By pcfritz|2023-12-16T23:19:41+00:00November 11, 2023|Categories: parking, Sebastopol, streets|Tags: parking, Sebastopol, small town, small town urbanism, street design|0 Comments

Sebastopol Walk Audit – Follow-up

Sebastopol Walk Audit – Follow-up

I led a Walk Audit in downtown Sebastopol May 13th. [...]

By pcfritz|2023-05-20T00:39:28+00:00May 20, 2023|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Sebastopol, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: human places, pedestrians, Sebastopol, small town, walk audit, walkability|0 Comments

Sebastopol Walk Audit

Sebastopol Walk Audit

There are many components of our built world that can [...]

By pcfritz|2023-12-16T23:01:04+00:00May 11, 2023|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Sebastopol, street design, streets, urban design, walkable streets, walking|Tags: pedestrians, Sebastopol, small town, walk audit, walkability|0 Comments

Park(ing) Day 2021

Park(ing) Day 2021

Today is Park(ing) Day! Started in San Francisco in 2005, [...]

By pcfritz|2021-09-17T23:42:25+00:00September 17, 2021|Categories: Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: human places, PARK(ing) Day, Parklets, Sebastopol, small town, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Auto-Oriented Uses Downtown

Auto-Oriented Uses Downtown

A project came before the Planning Commission last fall that [...]

By pcfritz|2021-03-06T00:59:18+00:00March 1, 2021|Categories: general plans, land use, Sebastopol, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets, zoning|Tags: auto-oriented uses downtown, FAR, general plan, redevelopment, Sebastopol, small town, zoning|0 Comments

Parking Requirement Impacts on Small Town Urbanism

Sebastopol, like many other small towns, needs to get a [...]

By pcfritz|2015-07-19T16:34:37+00:00July 19, 2015|Categories: Density, land use, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, Urban Vitality|Tags: Community Character, human places, infill development, land use, Main Street Sebastopol, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, small town, street design, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability|2 Comments

Changing Attitudes About Walking and Biking

I live in a small town. The population is around [...]

By pcfritz|2015-02-13T14:19:09+00:00February 13, 2015|Categories: biking, schools, Sebastopol, Walk and Roll to School, walking|Tags: bikeability, Kevin Klinkenburg, Sebastopol, Sebastopol Charter School, small town, Walk and Roll to School, walkability|1 Comment

Building Dense Does Not Have To Be Dense

This is an interesting blog post that discusses good and [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-07T17:20:10+00:00November 7, 2014|Categories: Density, land use, urban design|Tags: density, human places, infill development, land value, small town, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

CVS Agrees to Remove Drive-Through

The proposed CVS/Chase bank project that I have written about [...]

By pcfritz|2014-07-11T11:32:16+00:00July 11, 2014|Categories: land use, Sebastopol, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: chain stores in downtown, CVS lawsuit, CVS/Chase, Drive-through windows, small town, walkability|0 Comments