The planning commission reviewed a revised sixth-cycle housing element amendment that replaces two city-owned sites with five strategies — including a hotel-to-residential conversion and downtown live-work program — to meet Carmel’s RHNA target while prompting public concern about parking, water allocation and implementation timelines.

Designed before cars or air-conditioning, Savannah’s city plan shows how geography, shade, and fairness built one of America’s most livable…

A housing shortage crisis combined with an era of climate-fueled wildfires has made building homes a fraught undertaking across much of California.

Land-use and development decisions may have a greater impact on coastal flood exposure in China than sea-level rise itself, according to a major international study.

The needs of local residents should come first in a long-term plan for guiding the growth of McCall’s tourism economy, according to the McCall City Council.  The council hosted a work session with the...

By Stephen Starr, Great Lakes Now, September 24, 2025 Stroll along Cleveland’s Edgewater Pier on a summer evening, and you’ll hear Arabic, Spanish, and other languages wafting through the lake air. For decades, international immigrants have found a home in the city of Lake Erie. But now, there’s an increasing chance that future waves of migrants — from Florida, Arizona, California, and beyond — could move here as extreme weather events caused by climate change in those regions…

We sat six prognosticators down and let them wrestle with Toronto’s hot-button housing issues: the affordability crisis, the multiplex conundrum, the condo...

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The 2025 Happy City Index is in and the world's happiest cities are also some of the best places to ride a bike.