Main Street Mesa

Quick update: The veto is a good thing Prepare for the next legislative cycle MAG Transportation Policy Committee could use your voice ensuring people -first policies are warranted

New legislation coming from the AZ Legislators, namely the Freedom Caucus, restricts freedom for communities to reprioritize their hostile roads into community-centric streets. AZ SB1246 prioritizes the fear of congestion over ever other worthy goal: safety, economic vitality, culture, clean, quiet, people-centric street design is DENIED BY PROPOSED LAW. This can be stopped by Gove

Read the update on Arizona Senate Bill SB1122 in this News Alert: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ikyANC2IGK7cPklCu2RaHJGTgQqv_TH7/view?usp=share_link

Interlude Episode to feature an award winning student planner: Michael Huff from Northern Arizona University. Michael explores what was gained as he delved into a student project regarding a theoretical site for affordable housing in Flagstaff, Arizona. His student project was featured as an awarded plan at the 2021 Western States Planning Conference held in Arizona. Read the plan:

Main Street Mesa brings on innovative city builders for today's episode. Lucas Lindsey and Roberta Clay caught our attention as they are bringing their passion for a small scale development projects to the topic of today's show: 4Square. Their story about the making of 4Square offers insights for beneficial small-scale development that keep our communities thriving and offering mor

Main Street Mesa brings another guest on to talk about safe streets in our series focused mostly on safety, but always making room for the benefits of the human-scale city design and groundbreaking news happening around us. Episode #3 features Scott Kelley. Scott is a respected expert on traffic safety with over 17 years of experience. He is a cofounder of Greenlight Engineering (h

Culdesac Tempe (https://culdesac.com/) is described as a car-free rental apartment community in Tempe, AZ, about half way between Tempe's Downtown and Mesa's Downtown. Lava Sunder, the general manager for the soon-to-be community, joins the podcast to lay it out. Ryan and David are impressed and excited to share this conversation. Please enjoy and share. Lava's twitter: @LavanyaSun

Ryan Wozniak and Yung Koprowski explore the possibilities of safer streets in Mesa and the region dominated by fast, convenient, and deadly car travel. New theme music is thanks to Stone Martin (this you have to hear). David was away this episode, which gave Ryan ample opportunity to mess up the recording process... but after hours of editing, the conversation was salvaged for the

Join hosts Ryan & David as we discuss Chapters 5 & 6 from Charles Montgomery's Happy City -- and Ryan's MAN ON THE STREET interview at Parking Day 2018!

This episode, we try something a little different. We invited Camille, our guest from the last episode, to curate her own guests and give us a little different perspective than just Ryan and David talking. join us for this grand experiment! Be sure to join in the conversation on our Facebook Page (fb.com/MainStreetMesa)!