"You don’t have one big landowner who invests millions of dollars and hopes something gets approved.”: Bill Spikowski on downtown growth.

"From 1950 to the '80s and '90s, almost everything created in America was urban sprawl”: urban planner Jeff Speck at walkable conference

"They are becoming bulldozer bait": urban planner Chris Leinberger at walkability conference, on urban-fringe commercial buildings.

“The streets get wider and wider until the blocks aren't there anymore. You end up with all streets and no city”: Jeff Speck on road policy

"We have this bias that everybody has to drive a car": urban planner Joe Minicozzi at walkable cities conference in Fort Myers today. #SWFL

“In Asheville we have no parking requirements for our downtown. Zero. None.”: urban planner Joe Minicozzi at walkable cities conference.

:I wouldn't call them pack animals so much as lemmings": south Florida builder Tim Hernandez on lenders at walkability conference today

“If you believe every lane is a bike lane, then you don’t have any bike lanes”: urban planner Jeff Speck at today's walkability conference;

'Friendly shark tank' helps local communities with plans newspr.es/1LwxO0n via The News-Press

Greg Eagle, gravely ill, files plea for prison release newspr.es/1LGGWQa via The News-Press

NeoGenomics buys cancer test provider Clarient: $275M newspr.es/1LMpVny via The News-Press

Cape, Greatrer FM realtor groups vote to merge newspr.es/1MgyRxn via The News-Press

Took the golden handshake from News-Press, now free as a bird! Freelancing now, reach me at 239-850-3154.

Check your bank account if you have a Honda lease or payment. Looks like they double billed a lot of customers (all?) this month.

@hondasteals_jay Honda Automobile Customer Service Yes and Honda Customer Service Twitter jammed with people saying same. Customer phone line not functioning

@hondasteals_jay Honda Automobile Customer Service It won't break me but a lot of people are probably overdrawn and don't know it yet.

Great big-picture story by #PatriciaBorns in today's News-Press on #BabcockRanch. newspr.es/28W9fgh

Joe Workman, former News-Press columnist and editor, died Tuesday. His kindness and decency shone from all he did. newspr.es/2haiptT

Bob and Kay Gow of #VRLABS indicted at last. But what a glorious ride they had! Looking forward to the trial. newspr.es/2o1J6oZ

Power's back on in Town & River condominiums after 5 long days! Life is good.