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81. <p>The study’s findings could lead to changes in how policymakers define affordability to better account for overall costs — but changes to housing assistance programs would likely require major injections of new funding.</p>
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159.            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Writing for <em>GeekWire—</em>and as a hackathon participant—Chuck Wolfe explains how the hackathon brought together volunteer organizations, state and local government, students, and researchers to co-develop testable “resilience pilot projects” that could help Seattle be more prepared for future disruptions.</p>
160. <p>DemocracyLab, a “tech for good” nonprofit, helped facilitate the hackathon, which had support from the National Science Foundation LEAP-HI project, and the UW’s Department of Urban Design and Planning.</p>
161. <p>The UW hackathon centered on various pitches each addressing a different aspect of urban resilience to be tested against a future earthquake, pandemic, excessive heat event, or massive airline flight grounding. The pitches were also assessed for support of the Seattle Climate Action Plan and Seattle Race and Justice Initiative. </p>
162. <p>The range of projects presented, from urban system solutions to emergency water storage, speaks to the diverse issues that require further preparation and collaboration.</p>
163. <p>“Crises don’t allow time to invent responses from scratch,” said Dr. Dan Abramson, one of the event’s organizers from the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning. “Cities need to be adaptable, and the most adaptable cities are those that have a deep reserve of policies and programs they can draw on to keep themselves vital when normal activities are disrupted.”</p>
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221. </description>
222.  <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
223.    <dc:creator>Charles R. Wolfe</dc:creator>
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227.  <title>Waymo Expanding Robotaxi Service to More Bay Area Cities</title>
228.  <link>https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/05/128859-waymo-expanding-robotaxi-service-more-bay-area-cities</link>
229.  <description>&lt;span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"&gt;Waymo Expanding Robotaxi Service to More Bay Area Cities&lt;/span&gt;
230. <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.planetizen.com/author/diana-ionescu" lang="" about="https://www.planetizen.com/author/diana-ionescu" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" class="username" xml:lang="">Diana Ionescu</a></span>
231. <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 05/06/2024 - 10:00</span>
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238.  
239.            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Autonomous carmaker Waymo is set to begin testing self-driving taxis outside the city of San Francisco, reports Ricardo Cano for the San Francisco Chronicle. “The autonomous vehicle company announced Friday that it will test fully driverless rides in Daly City, Brisbane, South San Francisco, Colma, San Bruno, Millbrae and Burlingame ‘in the coming weeks.’”</p>
240. <p>The vehicles will initially only be available to Waymo employees. “Waymo won’t be testing its autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport, as the company requires separate permission from the city of San Francisco to operate there.” Cars in the rest of the service area approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in March, which spans 22 Bay Area cities, will have a backup human operator. </p>
241. <h2>More on Waymo’s controversial expansion:</h2>
242. <ul><li>
243. <p><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/03/127757-california-approves-waymo-driverless-taxis">California Approves Waymo Driverless Taxis</a></p>
244. </li>
245. <li>
246. <p><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/01/126994-waymo-begin-autonomous-rides-phoenix-freeways">Waymo to Begin Autonomous Rides on Phoenix Freeways</a></p>
247. </li>
248. <li>
249. <p><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/11/126537-autonomous-cars-putting-strain-local-governments">Autonomous Cars Putting Strain on Local Governments</a></p>
250. </li>
251. <li>
252. <p><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/08/125107-california-approves-autonomous-cars-over-local-concerns">California Approves Autonomous Cars Over Local Concerns</a></p>
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276.          <li><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/tag/autonomous-cars" hreflang="en">Autonomous Cars</a></li>
277.          <li><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/tag/self-driving-cars" hreflang="en">Self-Driving Cars</a></li>
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297.              <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/waymo-robotaxis-bay-area-19438172.php">Waymo to begin testing its driverless robotaxis in these seven Bay Area cities</a></div>
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307. </description>
308.  <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
309.    <dc:creator>Diana Ionescu</dc:creator>
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313.  <title>The BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: An Explainer</title>
314.  <link>https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/05/128856-blms-conservation-and-landscape-health-rule-explainer</link>
315.  <description>&lt;span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"&gt;The BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: An Explainer&lt;/span&gt;
316. <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.planetizen.com/author/diana-ionescu" lang="" about="https://www.planetizen.com/author/diana-ionescu" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" class="username" xml:lang="">Diana Ionescu</a></span>
317. <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 05/06/2024 - 09:00</span>
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327.              <div class="field__item">Cows rest under Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert.</div>
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329.  
330.  
331.            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In an article for Outdoor Life, Andrew McKean explains how the WEST (Western Economic Security Today) Act, which narrowly passed the House of Representatives and is headed to the Senate, would nullify the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health rule.</p>
332. <p>The act was pushed through by Republican legislators who see recent efforts to regulate natural resources as government overreach. “In the case of the BLM rule, the agency proposes elevating conservation to the same land-management priority that traditional uses, such as grazing, mining, and energy development have had for decades.” The rule is opposed by conservative lawmakers and traditional BLM land users such as ranching interests.</p>
333. <p>Opponents criticize the rule’s new “conservation leasing” provision, which creates two mechanisms: “One is called ‘compensatory mitigation leasing’ which would enable BLM managers to require impacts of developments like solar farms and mines to be mitigated through habitat conservation measures on BLM land. ‘Restoration leasing’ would empower the agency to consider market-based solutions for measures that improve the ecological health of BLM land.”</p>
334. <p>According to one source, the rule doesn’t radically change what the agency can do or the tools available to it. “What the rule does is make the application of conservation tools more consistent and less scattershot.”</p>
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357.          <li><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/taxonomy/term/69055" hreflang="en">Conservation and Landscape Health rule</a></li>
358.          <li><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/tag/conservation" hreflang="en">Conservation</a></li>
359.          <li><a href="https://www.planetizen.com/tag/public-land" hreflang="en">Public Land</a></li>
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378.              <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/blm-rule-controversy/">Why Is the New BLM Rule So Controversial?</a></div>
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388. </description>
389.  <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
390.    <dc:creator>Diana Ionescu</dc:creator>
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394.  <title>This Highway in Indiana Will Charge EVs</title>
395.  <link>https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/05/128855-highway-indiana-will-charge-evs</link>
396.  <description>&lt;span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"&gt;This Highway in Indiana Will Charge EVs&lt;/span&gt;
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398. <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 05/06/2024 - 08:00</span>
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406.            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Indiana Department of Transportation broke ground on a segment of highway equipped with a system that can charge electric vehicles and heavy-duty trucks as they drive, idle, or park on the roadway. According to a press release from INDOT, “The project will use innovative magnetizable concrete – developed by German startup Magment GmbH – enabling wireless charging of electric vehicles as they drive.”</p>
407. <p>The technology could have a major impact on transportation emissions. As Susan Elizabeth Turek explains in The Cool Down, “Electrifying heavy-duty trucks would go a long way toward improving air quality by reducing pollution linked to health issues like asthma and rising global temperatures. The Environmental Protection Agency notes that medium- and heavy-duty vehicles account for 23% of heat-trapping gases generated by transportation in the United States.”</p>
408. <p>The project, designed by engineers at Purdue University, will begin with a testing phase during which “ charging benefits will only be available to vehicles with special transmitters, which draw power from the coils via magnetic fields.” The technology operates similarly to wireless cell phone chargers.</p>
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451.              <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/electric-highway-project-indiana/">Public officials break ground on highway project that charges electric cars whi…</a></div>
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462.  <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
463.    <dc:creator>Diana Ionescu</dc:creator>
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467.  <title>Houston to Make a Car-Free Downtown Corridor Permanent</title>
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481.              <div class="field__item">Historic city clock at the intersection of Main Street and Texas Street in downtown Houston, Texas.</div>
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485.            <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>“<a href="https://www.planetizen.com/city-profile/houston" class="planopedia-link">Houston</a> is finally tackling its <a href="https://www.planetizen.com/definition/walkability" class="planopedia-link">walkability</a> issue head-on” by transforming a seven-block portion of downtown’s Main Street into a car-free corridor, according to an article in Chron. Renee Yan reports the project, called “<a href="https://downtownhouston.org/about/priority-projects/more-space-main-street-20">More Space: Mainstreet 2.0</a>,” is in its final design and engineering phase and will likely break ground next year. In addition to lighting, stormwater, and aesthetic improvements, the street will be raised so it is level with the sidewalk. Work is expected to be completed in time for Houston to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches.</p>
486. <p>The project was inspired by an initiative the city undertook in 2021 to support local businesses during the pandemic. Chron previously reported that “[t]he city launched it as a pilot program to restrict car traffic and allow restaurants and bars to create gathering spaces along Main Street.” The program was very popular with residents and business owners, so after it expired in 2023, the city council voted unanimously to make it permanent.</p>
487. <p>Houston isn’t the only city to make pandemic-era <a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/01/120772-where-open-streets-are-succeeding">car-free street projects permanent </a>after positive reaction from the public and boosts to local <a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2021/05/113374-car-free-streets-benefit-restaurants-yelp-survey-shows">restaurants</a>. Other places in the U.S. that have done so include San Francisco’s John F. Kennedy Drive; 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens; multiple streets in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District in <a href="https://www.planetizen.com/city-profile/new-york-city" class="planopedia-link">New York City</a>; <a href="https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2023/11/07/palo-altos-second-downtown-to-stay-permanently-car-free/">California Ave in Palo Alto</a>.</p>
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