Exploring Downtown McAllen: Urbanism in the Rio Grande Valley

If you take a trip to the Rio Grande Valley, you can find many hidden gems of good urbanism. The Valley punches above its weight, with an abundance of cities with lively streets and energetic downtowns. While in the Valley for a Safe Streets for Texans training, we had the pleasure of exploring the vibrant, …

YIMBYtown 2024, February 26-28, Austin, TX

Farm&City and AURA are proud to host YIMBYtown 2024 in Austin

YIMBYtown is the premier nationwide conference for pro-housing advocates, organizers, and policymakers. Over several days of trainings, panels, discussions, speeches, and networking, YIMBYtown provides vital space for the pro-housing movement to connect, learn, share, wrestle with difficult questions, and lay the groundwork for the next great burst of wins for abundant housing across the country. …

TxDOT’s refusal to use an equitable scenario planning process with alternative reasonable future growth forecasts renders their “No Build” analysis meaningless in the climate emissions, air quality, and traffic modeling analysis.

Farm&City comments on item 45 – Calling for meaningful climate and air quality analysis of the proposal to fix I-35

Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, …