Swamp Things

Florida's grotesque solution to the housing crisis

Florida is becoming the ultimate not in my backyard state

Fascism won't let you be

There is no "too small" for a movement grounded in smallness

Why I keep writing about land use even while the world is falling apart

Oh I'm aware of how bad things are right now but we gotta start somewhere

Traffic will always rise unless we start funding alternatives to cars

Adding more lanes will never permanently fix traffic

East Gainesville needs more housing and more conservation land

Near the boundaries of East Gainesville, a developer wants to build houses and put land into conservation, which has provoked a battle.

People just want to live

Why is it so hard to let that happen?

Gainesville votes to reinstate exclusionary zoning

Gainesville's City Commissioner's votes put it at odds with most progressives and realists nationally

What does the 21st century city look like?

Many major cities are looking to the past to shape their future. Gainesville should do the same.

The Chip