“These sounds fall squarely in the range where human hearing is most sensitive. They are brief, irregular, and impossible to tune out. Physiologically, they trigger the body's fight-or-flight response. Over time, fatigue, irritability, and disrupted sleep can lead to health impacts. Factoring in laughter, chatter, and day-long play, one can start to understand why nearby homeowners might take exception.”

#Pickleball #NoisePollution #Zoning #ZoningCode #LandUsePlanning

https://www.planning.org/planning/2025/nov/why-the-pop-pop-pop-of-pickleball-needs-a-zoning-solution/

Why the Pop, Pop, Pop of Pickleball Needs a Zoning Solution

As the nation’s fastest-growing sport transforms parks and neighborhoods, planners have a chance to lead — before the conflicts land in court.

American Planning Association

Chính phủ ban hành nghị quyết mới, tháo gỡ vướng mắc quy hoạch sử dụng đất cho các dự án đang bị đình trệ. Hy vọng các dự án sẽ sớm được triển khai!
#quyhoachsudungdat #batdongsan #chinhphu #landuseplanning #realestate #government

https://vietnamnet.vn/chinh-phu-go-vuong-quy-hoach-dat-dai-mo-duong-cho-du-an-khong-bi-chon-chan-2442849.html

Chính phủ gỡ vướng quy hoạch sử dụng đất, mở đường cho dự án không bị chôn chân

Chính phủ vừa ban hành Nghị quyết số 66.3/2025 nhằm tháo gỡ, xử lý vướng mắc để triển khai các dự án trong thời gian quy hoạch sử dụng đất quốc gia thời kỳ 2021 - 2030, tầm nhìn đến năm 2050 chưa được phê duyệt điều chỉnh.

Vietnamnet.vn

“You can build a house almost anywhere in Colorado.

You just can’t build one that most people can afford.

That’s the stark takeaway from a landmark zoning report released last month by the National Zoning Atlas, a group of researchers who have spent the last two years conducting a first-of-its-kind study of land use codes across 334 Colorado cities, towns and unincorporated areas.”

#LandUsePlanning #UrbanPlanning #Housing #AffordableHousing #Colorado #Zoning

https://coloradosun.com/2025/07/01/national-zoning-atlas-study-colorado-land-use-apartments-townhomes-lot-sizes-parking/

Nearly 70% of Colorado land zoned for housing prohibits the most affordable types of homes, study finds

In the first comprehensive review of Colorado land use laws, the National Zoning Atlas found that you can build single-family homes almost anywhere. But apartments, condos and townhomes are widely prohibited.

The Colorado Sun

Cities winning the race to outer space: 2025 REWRITE

Throughout history, ease of trade, commerce, and connectivity has played vital roles in determining which cities prosper and thrive. Seaports, canals, railroads, and highways have all determined urban winners and losers.   Today, the airport is the principle success determiner. Cities ranging from Dallas-Fort Worth, to Orlando, to Denver to Hong Kong, to Amsterdam, to Memphis, to Detroit, to Beijing, and to Anchorage have benefitted from establishing and maintaining cutting-edge aviation infrastructure.  This applies to passenger, overnight, air freight, or seaplane facilities.

Spaceport America, New Mexico – Source: in.pinterest.com

This begs the question of what next? What mode of transportation will be the next conduit to increased trade, economic growth, and regional prosperity? In this planner’s opinion, those cities that become nodes of space travel and/or infrastructure will move ahead of the crowd by the middle of the 21st century. Because of previous investments, there are a number of cities that are well ahead of the pack. That fact, combined with limitations on the number of spaceports that the market can realistically support, will give the cities listed below a leg up on the competition and make them odd’s on favorites. Nevertheless, other cities around the globe may be able to ingenuously latch on to this futuristic growth engine.

Headquarters Space Operations Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado – Source: space ews.com

Below is an updated list of those cities/metro regions in the United States (in alphabetical order) that are either already at the forefront of the urban space race or may become a potential contender, along with the reason(s) why. Not all have to be launch facilities, as research, control and tracking centers are also important. Those listed in bold are currently believed to be the leading metros in this space race. Other cities around the globe are listed separately.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

Please feel free to suggest others that may have been missed in this update. Those sites (existing and proposed) which are in very remote locations were not included on the list. Weblinks to sources are provided at the end of the post.

Peace!

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  • Albuquerque-Socorro, New Mexico: Very Large Array (VLA) and Sandia National Laboratories/Kirtland AFB
  • Bakersfield-Mojave, California: Mojave Air and Spaceport
  • Brownsville, Texas: Boca Chica/Space X
  • Cleveland, Ohio: Glenn NASA Research Center
  • Clinton, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Spaceport
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado:U.S. Space Force Command HQ, Peterson Space Force Base, and Schriever Space Force Base
  • Denver, Colorado: Colorado Air & Space Port and Buckley Space Force Base
  • El Paso-Las Cruces-Alamagordo, Texas/New Mexico: NASA White Sands Test Facility, White Sands Missile Range, Spaceport America,and Lunch Site One/Blue Origin Spaceport
  • Greater Los Angeles, California: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles Space Force Base, and Edwards AFB/Spaceport
  • Hampton Roads, Virginia: NASA Langley Research Center, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport – see photo above, Wallops Flight Facility
  • Houston, Texas: Johnson Space Center and Houston Spaceport
  • Huntsville, Alabama: Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, Space Camp, and Huntsville International Air & Space Port
  • Jacksonville, Florida: Cecil Field Spaceport and Spaceport Camden (Georgia)
  • Kodiak, Alaska: Pacific Spaceport Complex
  • Las Vegas, Nevada: Nellis AFB facilities and Nevada Test Site
  • Lompoc-Santa Maria, California: Vandenberg Air/Space Force Base and Launch Facility
  • Melbourne-Palm Bay-Titusville, Florida: Kennedy Space Center, Patrick Space Force Base, and Spaceport Florida
  • Midland-Odessa, Texas: Midland Spaceport
  • Picayune-New Orleans area, Mississippi: Stennis Space Center
  • Washington, DC: NASA HQ, Goddard Space Flight Center, the Pentagon, and other federal departments
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia – Source: esacosas.com

Other cities around the world who are (or may become) leading contenders in the urban space race include (in alphabetical order):

  • Alcantara/San Luis, Brazil: Alcantara Launch Center
  • Arkhangelsk, Russia: Plesetek Cosmodrome
  • Dongfeng Aerospace City, China: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
  • Kimotsuki, Japan: Uchinoura Space Center
  • Kiruna, Sweden: Spaceport Sweden
  • Kourou, French Guiana: Centre Spatial Guyanais European Spaceport
  • Malacca City, Malaysia: Spaceport Malaysia
  • Natal, Brazil: Barreirra do Inferno Launch Center
  • Sao Paulo, Brazil: Brazilian Mission Control
  • Semnan, Iran: Iranian Space Agency
  • Sri City, India: Satish Dhawan Space Centre
  • Svobodny, Russia: Vostochny Cosmodrome
  • Tanegashima, Japan: Tanegashima Space Center
  • Tel Aviv, Israel: Palmachim Airbase
  • Volgograd, Russia: Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome
  • Willemstad, Curacao: Spaceport Curacao
  • Xichang, China: Xichang Satellite Launch Center
  • Yasny, Russia: Dombarovsky Air Base/Cosmodrome

SOURCES

#aerospace #astronomy #aviation #landUsePlanning #outerSpace #rockets #Science #space #spaceExploration #spaceTravel #spaceports #technology #transportation #transportationPlanning #travel #urbanPlanning

Spaceport - Wikipedia

🎈New article out in Urban Planning - in time with #AESOP2024: 'Post-Growth Ambitions and Growth-Based Realities in Sustainable Land-Use Planning'. #postgrowthplanning #postgrowth #landuseplanning #spatialplanning @postgrowthplan https://doi.org/10.17645/up.7881
Post-Growth Ambitions and Growth-Based Realities in Sustainable Land-Use Planning | Article | Urban Planning

Christian Lamker, Thomas Terfrüchte

On my way to #aesop2024 conference in Paris to present the last paper of my PhD on escalation processes in #LandUseConflicts. Is anyone else attending?
#EnvironmentalPlanning #LandUsePlanning
@geography
World's beaches are changing because of climate change - green thinking is needed to save them

Coastlines need to be recognised as dynamic, shifting environments rather than as environments that need to be controlled and managed.

The Conversation
the "I ride transit" #PBOT planners who think Orenco Station drive-to-Urbanism & similar results of #LandUsePlanning are going to move the needle on urban #decarbonization and make a dent in the 50% of GHG emissions that is #transportation in cities, need to see why half of trips are under 3 miles but families are just being forced/coerced induced into creating congestion by transportation agencies planning instead of doing #VisionZero #ClimateAction #stuffInTheStreet Urbanism, like Jersey City?

Land-use planning, relief programs, and advanced water systems for new developments are some of the drought management and water conservation strategies highlighted in the latest edition of our solution newsletter.

Check it out at https://mailchi.mp/unl.edu/dry-horizons-february-2023.

#landuseplanning #water #waterconservation #drought #solutions #science

Realizing I need to use hashtags here #climate #landuseplanning