At its 2018 General Assembly, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) presented the "Against All Odds Award" to the City of San Fernando for successfully adopting the Corridors Specific Plan. Patrick Siegman is honored to have been part of the Sargent Town Planning team that prepared the plan and helped the City bring it to a successful conclusion.
On June 2, the Northern California Section of the American Planning Association presented the 2017 Award of Merit for comprehensive planning for a small jurisdiction to the East Palo Alto General Plan Update and Westside Area Plan. Patrick Siegman led the transportation aspects of the plan, as part of a team led by Raimi + Associates.
In an article for Streetsblog USA, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman writes about UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Donald Shoup:
In an interview with New Urban News, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman explains how planners can help communities achieve their stated goals (such as less pollution and more affordable housing) by presenting decision-makers with three approaches to parking policy:
Cities often find themselves snarled in traffic, but too broke to fund better transportation choices. While a Principal at Nelson\Nygaard, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman helped San Marcos chart a better course.
The San Diego Union Tribune describes the ground-breaking funding approach: a transit district, funded by fees on new development, is raising funds for what will become the city’s first citywide shuttle service.
Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman spoke with the Washington Post about systemic problems with American parking and traffic studies. Those defects help explain why the District of Columbia is now saddled with a 1000 space, $40 million, taxpayer-funded garage, which remains so empty "that the operator typically blocks off one of its two sprawling levels".
Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman is co-leading the Congress for the New Urbanism's Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative, an ongoing cooperative effort between CNU, fire marshals, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to find common ground and solutions to designing streets that improve overall safety, urban design, and emergency response times.
The newly re-released New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, Fourth Edition, authored by Robert Steuteville, Phil Langdon, and contributors, has been receiving rave reviews. Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman and co-authors Brian O’Looney, Neal Payton authored Chapter 25, which provides an in-depth examination of parking solutions for settings ranging from natural areas, to neighborhoods of detached homes, to streetcar suburbs, to urban cores.
Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman is co-leading the Congress for the New Urbanism's Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative. CNU's Jon Davis reports on the results of our first two-day workshop, which brought together planners, engineers, and firefighters to find common ground:
At the Congress for the New Urbanism in Philadelphia, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman offered a seven-point program for parking reform to a standing room-only crowd, noting that it could have a transformative effect on the American landscape:
In this article, originally published in Planning magazine, Siegman & Associates founder Patrick Siegman provides a 12-point checklist for distinguishing between truly transit-oriented development and buildings which are merely transit-adjacent: