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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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QOTD: Where Have You Encountered the Worst Traffic?

The Truth About Cars

Matt wrote earlier about 15-minute cities by featuring plans being made in Cleveland. The purpose of these cities is basically to set up neighborhoods so that anything residents want or need is within a 15-minute walk -- thus reducing automobile traffic. Other drivers wouldn't let them in, and two lanes of traffic got clogged.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

Green Car Congress

The study analyzes how extensively local planning policies could either complement the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) of 2015 or compensate for its absence. The 11 cities analyzed in the study are Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Seattle.