June meeting recap — an evening with Strong Towns

Daniel Herriges, Senior Editor of Strong Towns, spoke at Sustain Saint Paul’s June Community Member meeting. He spoke about how cities across the nation, especially Saint Paul, Daniel’s home town, can increase housing, support local developers, and help residents earn a potential source of income.

Check out Strong Town Presentation slides and view the YouTube video recording of Sustain Saint Paul’s June Community Members meeting.

Additional resources:

• How can we bring back incremental developers? Daniel spoke briefly about the South Bend cohort in particular, and the third installment is entirely about how they got that going.

• Strong Towns released an e-book on reviving small-scale development

• Memphis recently reformed their building codes

  • Profile of a small developer in Memphis with more detail on those efforts

• Hear Strong Town’s interview with the founder of Maxable, an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) startup

  • Dweller is another ADU startup

• More details on the explosion of ADU permitting in Los Angeles

• Eric Kronberg's presentation slides have some brilliant examples of models for flexible infill that takes advantage of lot splits and multiple ADUs