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 Governor Hobbs. Email jcruz@az.gov ASAP to urge a veto of this flawed, dangerous agenda packaged as SB1246. Keep up the good work!

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: The Meadows and Schultz Pass for a sample of Michael's work. Reach Michael Huff at michaelhuff17@gmail.com Musical Credit: Pulsefire Ezreal (Free) by Rameses B at https://ramesesb.bandcamp.com 

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 more variety of housing options and access to high-demand neighborhoods. Why does this project matter? What are some basic elements can unlock more neighborhood potential? We cover that and more in this conversation. Find more about Lucas at http://venueprojects.com/ and Roberta can be contacted at roberta@rclayarchitect.com.

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 (https://greenlighttrafficengineering.com/) where the firm is involved in traffic and transportation engineering for traffic operations, safety, design projects, and more across the state, region, or as small as an intersection. Scott is a numbers guy, but his knowledge and insights go beyond the numbers. Listen to Ryan and Scott have a conversation about the industry and how there's room for progress and advocacy by listeners like you. If interested, you can reach Scott Kelley here: scottk@greenlightte.com or on LinkedIn. You can follow Main Street Mesa on Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on any major pod-c

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: @LavanyaSunder Culdesac twitter: @culdesac Kudos to Stone Martin for the episode's theme music. As always, feel free to follow us at @MainStreetMesa or email us at mainstmesa@gmail.com

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 benefit of the relaunch of the pod. Here's the first in the series where we explore safe streets, why we need them, what works against them, and what are the opportunities to promote a safer, more humane, and more equitable street design.