Hoyle Consulting

09/24/2024

I am very proud to have been a part of the Teska team that created the Jasper Street Great Streets Great Neighborhoods award-winning plan.

🏆 The APA-IL is thrilled to reveal the outstanding recipients of the 2024 Project Awards. Congratulations to all for their remarkable work helping to make great communities in Illinois! https://www.ilapa.org/aws/APAIL/pt/sp/award-program

05/27/2021

Connecting people with their community on a beautiful spring day. We held a Green Loop Urbana Park Bike Ride to help community members discover that they can bike to our beautiful parks mostly using trails and easy cycling streets. Lily Grumbles provided fun trivia about the history of planning in Urbana and engaged the riders in the current comp plan update, Imagine Urbana!

04/26/2021

It is fun to see your work from years ago cited as people continue to do the hard work of transforming our cities from being built for cars to being better for people. This blog cited my work from 1995 in the section "A Transportation Vision for Boulder—Urban Design, Part 2, Section 2"

Posts about minimum parking requirements written by Dom Nozzi

05/20/2020

A new report offers insights to what connects residents to cities, and provides key suggestions for leaders to foster such attachments — even during the pandemic. 

04/29/2020

A free webinar on aging in place and staying active.

Conversations about Creating a Culture of Activity: A semi-frequent discussion profiling the people, places, programs, and policies that help to promote a culture of activity within our communities.

04/23/2020

Join us for a webinar on April 27 to hear how communities are using transportation initiatives and actions to respond to COVID-19. This is the latest installment in our monthly webinar series Complete Streets 301: Putting people first.

03/31/2020

We lost an important member of the active transportation movement to Covid19, John LaPlante. He was pioneer advocating for complete streets and equal access to transportation. He was also a colleague and friend. He was a member of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). An overview of his career was posted by ITE.

03/24/2020

Thinking about planning and pandemics and how our systems can address the issues.

Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.  

01/15/2020

We do not have a growth problem we have an auto-dependency problem due to an autocentric transportation system. It is inefficient, unsustainable, and unsafe. It is time for us to have a conversation about the solutions.

No, you’re not stuck in congestion because your city’s infrastructure is “inadequate” to handle growth.

12/23/2019

Norm understood the importance of transportation/land-use policies on equity in communities in 1969. Now cities like Portland are implementing some of those ideas. "No matter the scale or breadth of our contemporary urban challenges, the original ideals of equity planning remain just as relevant and straightforward as they did in Krumholz’s day, according to Bates. On any given decision, planners need to ask themselves, 'Does it benefit the least well-off? If it does, do it. And if it doesn’t, don’t do it.'"

Some city planners implement equity planning; evaluating urban planning decisions through the prism of how they would affect the least advantaged residents.

11/01/2019

Smart street lighting!

Cities can leverage existing real estate like lampposts to become the IoT magnet for many city services not offered today.

10/26/2019

Excellent tools for building resilient communities.

This new online tool outlines ways cities can use nature-based solutions to mitigate storm damage.