Week 2 Reading 

Monday June 15

For "Smart Growth and Transit-Oriented Development in Metro DC":

▪        Coalition for Smarter Growth, www.smartergrowth.net, Blueprint video, https://www.smartergrowth.net/blueprint/

▪         Creating Walkable Piedmont Communities workshop, March 31, 2023 - in particular can skim these slide decks:

▪        2nd bullet Deborah Kendall, Town Manager, Town of Gordonsville

▪        4th bullet, Mayor Roger Vance, Town of Hillsboro (in particular see middle/latter part "before/after" photos)

▪        Viewpoint: The Answer to a more vibrant downtown? Not more cars

●       Smart Growth resources at Victoria Transportation Policy Institute (www.vtpi.org)

For “Housing 101”:

▪         Read about the affordable housing problem on the HAND Housing Indicator Tool  and review the housing needs of your state here: https://nlihc.org/housing-needs-by-state.

• Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight (Sightline Institute)

• What Luxury Housing Does to Homelessness (Video by Falls Church Councilmember Justine Underhill)

• How Upzoning Affects Housing Supply: Evidence and Implications for Designing Zoning Reform That Works (Urban Institute)

• Building Homes Near Jobs, Stores, and Transit Saves Public Dollars (PEW)

• Virginia Zoning Atlas (HousingForward/National Zoning Atlas database)

For “Energy and climate”:

●       PEC, How Agrivoltaics can help solve Virginia’s energy crisis

●       Opinion Piece: https://cardinalnews.org/2024/03/22/the-rural-anger-over-solar-energy-is-real/

• Ashish Kapoor, 3 ways to find the radical middle (13-minute TEDx talk)

Tuesday June 16

▪         Watch this video on Main Streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnbRN8mRrM

▪            Visit Main Street America's website and look around (no need to read or watch everything, just browse): https://www.mainstreet.org/home

Wednesday June 17

Pre  - GIS reading assignment TBD

GIS  Links for Thursday, June 18

▪        Complete the following self-guided tutorials:

▪        ArcGIS Online Basics (1 hr 50 mins)

▪        Jasmin and Assma will be on the “Storymapping” Google Meet from 11am-1pm on Thursday if you need help and available throughout the day by email

▪        StoryMap about making StoryMaps (META!):
Getting started with ArcGIS StoryMaps

▪        Review this webpage:  Discover the possibilities with ArcGIS StoryMaps!

▪        Log into StoryMaps: Sign In

GIS Assignment: 

▪        Review this StoryMap about making StoryMaps:
Getting started with ArcGIS StoryMaps

▪        Make a StoryMap about the place you chose to focus on during Land Use week

▪        What story do you want to tell?

▪        Include images you took during the assignment

▪        Test out the different elements -- try to include a WebMap or video!

▪        Can be as simple or as complicated as you’d like!

Be sure to share it with the “Fellows 2026” AGOL group

Friday June 19

▪        Read “Intro to Land Use Law” (in the folder below)

▪        Read “Explanation of the Dillon Rule” (in the folder below)