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Doesn't this sound like a better way to live? You can be a small developer too, and change your community for the better.

Cully Green feels like an oasis: shaded by trees and full of common spaces. Residents live independently in their own homes, yet the design naturally fosters connection. It even includes multiple permanently affordable units. This wasn’t built by a nonprofit, but by community-oriented developer Eli Spevak in Portland, Oregon. It’s proof that permissive zoning doesn’t have to lead to large, characterless projects. In can empower small local, incremental developers to create places that feel alive. If you want to see examples like this in person, consider joining a field trip with the Incremental Development Alliance. @incrementaldev ❤️ #IncrementalDevelopment #PocketNeighborhood #CommunityDevelopment #SmallScaleDeveloper

Have you ever thought about what makes a truly walkable neighborhood?

Congress for the New Urbanism recently shared a list of thirteen characteristics that define great walkable places—neighborhoods designed for connection, convenience, and community.

Take a walk through your own neighborhood with this list in hand. How many apply where you live? Which ones don’t—and would adding them make your daily life a little better?

Most walkable neighborhoods have these qualities, or at least nearly all of them.

1. The neighborhood is the increment of planning. A single freestanding neighborhood is a village.

2. The neighborhood is limited in size to a 5-minute walk (0.25 miles, 400 meters) from edge to center, where the needs of daily life are available.

3. Neighborhood streets are in an interconnected network, allowing multiple routes to destinations.

4. Neighborhood streets are spatially defined by buildings.

5. Neighborhood buildings are diverse in function but compatible in terms of size and configuration on the lot.

6. The civic buildings of a neighborhood are located in important areas, for example, attached to squares.

7. Neighborhood open space is defined rather than amorphous.

8. Everyone living in a neighborhood has independence of movement, since activities of daily life are within walking distance.

9. Reduced auto trips means less traffic and lower costs.

10. Human-scale streets and squares provide opportunity for social interaction.

11. Transit is made feasible by providing sufficient density near transit stops.

12. There is a full range of housing types and workplaces, allowing age and economic integration.

13. Civic buildings and spaces encourage democratic initiatives.

Read the whole article at: cnu.org/publicsquare/2025/10/20/thirteen-characteristics-walkable-neighborhoods

This is not a drill.
On Sunday, August 17 at 6:00 PM, the 2nd Annual RST Tommy Awards hit the Richey Suncoast Theatre stage—and if you’re not in that room, you’ll be hearing about it for months.

📍 Where: Richey Suncoast Theatre
🕒 When: Sunday, August 17 | Doors open 5:30 PM
💵 Tickets: $10 — literally the price of a fast-food meal

Why you can’t skip it:

1. Live performances that’ll make you laugh, cry, and maybe ugly-sob in public
2. Light bites from local eateries + a cash bar (liquid courage for your red carpet moment)
3, The biggest local theatre night of the year—where YOU helped choose the winners

🎟 Tickets are moving—grab yours now before the awkward “Sorry, it’s sold out” moment:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36105/production/1240902?performanceId=11646868

You have three options:

Be there.

Pretend you’re sick and cry into your takeout while watching other people’s Instagram Stories.

Buy your ticket and actually live a little.