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Indian Wells donates housing money.

Feb 1, 2000

CP&DR Staff, Local Watch, Vol. 15 No. 02 Feb 2000

The wealthy City of Indian Wells will give $1.5 million in housing funds to the City of Coachella, a neighboring town where residents' median income is less than one-third that of Indian Wells' citizens. The money is a portion of the mandatory 20% housing set-aside from an Indian Wells redevelopment project, which transformed desert land into an upscale golf resort. Indian Wells has spent $13.6 million in housing funds on 90 senior apartments and earmarked $14.6 million for 100 more senior units. The ...

Riverside County Integrates Three Planning Efforts: Land Use, Transportation and Habitat Planning are Combined

Feb 1, 2000

Featured Articles, Vol. 15 No. 02 Feb 2000, William Fulton

Faced with the possibility of adding another 1.5 million people during the next 20 years, Riverside County has embarked on an ambitious effort to plan for that growth. The Riverside County Integrated Plan seeks to combine land use, transportation, and habitat planning into one unified blueprint for growth. County officials emphasize that the planning process does not seek to restrict growth. Rather, the goal of the process is to channel and accommodate new growth while meeting federal standards f...

Monster Houses Devour Neighborhood Scale

Feb 1, 2000

Stephen Svete, Trends, Vol. 15 No. 02 Feb 2000

In a currently popular coffee-table book titled The Not So Big House, Minneapolis-based architect Sarah Susanka argues for an age-old idea that seems quaint in our hyper economic boom times: quality is better than quantity. When it comes to addressing the current planning dilemma called monster houses ï¿½ the phenomenon of tearing down older houses and rebuilding with Godzilla proportions in Bambi neighborhoods ï¿½ Susanka may be to the 2000s what Andres Duany was to the 1990s: an architect that has desig...